Trish Hurley’s oil paintings are personal in size, inviting the viewer to the intimacy of the moment and space. Her plein-air atmospheric landscapes are inspired by her love of the outdoors and the ever-changing weather of New England. In each of her still life paintings, she defines a distinct ambiance. In each painting, she strives to awaken all of the senses by capturing the dramatics of light and space.

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Trish Hurley received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Swain School of Design.

As a child, crayons were my love...using colors rich and vibrant, deep and dark.  Now as an adult, each color evokes an emotion within me that I portray through my work.  Each piece of art that I create has a special ambience. In creating monoprints, it’s a little more fun and serendipitous whereas painting is a more direct and controlled process often done with just palette knife and my fingers. 

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The evolution of my artwork comes from a fascination of the outdoors, whether it’s walking down a wooded path, a city street or sitting long a river.  From there I take my attraction to abstract shapes of colors- lights and darks and execute my palette knife visual studies rather quickly, trying to capture the moment by mimicking the scene and transpiring the sensual qualities of sound and temperature. After bringing these paintings inside to the studio, another painting, generally a more abstract, larger painting is born more loose and freeing.

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As a Native New Englander, she now resides in Newport, RI and instructs at the Community College of Rhode Island and the Westport Art Group in Westport, MA, as well as privately.