Hilda Rueda

ABOUT

Colombian  born Artist. Hilda was trained as a petroleum engineer with a masters  in International Business.  She worked in the Oil field for several  years, but her passion was always the visual and literary arts.  She  changed carriers and studied art at Glasell School Houston,  Calgary  Arts, Canada, and with the recognized Brazilian artist, Augusto Sousa  Rodriguez. She has received instruction from  Rob Liberace, Carolyn  Anderson, Huihan Liu, Clayton Beck and other masters.  Currently resides  in Houston, where she has her studio.   Hilda is  i an active member of  several art organizations that contribute to the promotion of education  in the visual arts .  She also writes poetry which sometimes is  incorporated into her paintings.  Her art is in private collections in  Canada, Brazil and The United States.  She has exhibited in several  countries and her work has received multiple awards and positive critic  reviews. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art  is the universal language that transcends geographical borders,  ethnicity, religion and time.  My art is inspired both by the dramatic  play of light and peasant scenes of classical paintings such as the  works of Vermeer and Caravaggio  and by the bold , impressionistic, more  modern art of Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla and Russian painter  Nicolai Fechin.  

My human figures are not simply a representation  of an individual.  They are soul portraits of the deep emotions,  feelings and passions that every human being goes through in his/her  existence.  I intend through strong colors and textures, bold brush  stroke and composition communicate to the viewer the emotional clues the  model portraits in his/her manner and demeanor, many times bringing to  mind a particular subject or theme of the past.  These emotional clues,  the e nergy of happiness and sadness, the suffering and ecstasies and  all the mixtures that constitute the wonderful tapestry of life, are not  unique to the model but are instead universal to all of us, and I aim  through paint and words to awaken a sense of connection and  interrelation between the viewer and the model.