HILDA EPNER'S APPROACH TO PAINTING
Just as dance is a combination of music, form, motion, and line, so her paintings strive to achieve the equivalence of dance on canvas.  She creates these dances in two steps: First, with classical music as the constant background, she freely applies paint to the canvas -- a spontaneous drawing or "dance" in color that reflects her feelings at that moment.  Second, she builds up the painting into an expressive entity by consciously controlling all elements (color, shape, and line). Thus, her paintings become carefully choreographed mind pictures that, unlike realistic ones, could never by seen if she did not compose them on canvas.

HILDA EPNER'S APPROACH TO DRAWING
To create these expressive and whimsical drawings, she looks only at the model and draws a continuous line without lifting her pen and without looking at the paper until the portrait is completed.  Because she keeps her eyes on the model, she senses the contours more strongly and, at the same time, is less distracted by the details or "accuracy" of the drawing in progress.  The results are imaginative and lyrical; never realistic or predictable. Only occasionally does a likeness to the model sneak in.

HILDA EPNER'S BACKGROUND IN ART
Hilda Epner received an M.A. in Fine Arts and Education from Columbia University and studied with Hugh Mesibov and with Sam Feinstein of the Hans Hoffman school of painting. 
 

Before devoting full-time to her artwork, she taught art at the Ridgewood School of Art, Pearl River School District, and Shawnee Leadership Institute, and taught puppetry at the Rockland Center for the Arts.  She also taught Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Studies to Pearl River students, and was faculty advisor to the high school literary/art magazine, The Tenth Muse. In addition she lectured on abstract expressionism at the Sunday Art Seminars of St. Thomas Aquinas College and on her drawing technique at Hopper House.  Two of her recent drawings were selected by Dr. P. Solomon as illustrations for her new book, The Assessment Bridge. A Japanese TV program showed her while teaching her drawing technique to patients at Hearthstone Alzheimer's Family Foundation. She is a trustee of Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY.

Upcoming exhibition:    DANCING AND STOMPING ON CANVAS
                                                            March 15 - April 1
Receptions: Sat & Sun, March 17 and 18, and March 24 and 25th. 

Go to Hilda Epner's website

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