The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts celebrates its twentieth anniversary year with a show of member artwork titled “This Is Us” opening on February 24th, 2026

HGA founding member Pat Merriman passed away peacefully last week at the age of 89, an active participant in the gallery she helped to create.

My intention as an artist is to celebrate the feminine spirit and the beauty of our earth using shapes, texture and color.

When I was in school, my focus was in printmaking, working mainly with collagraphy, a technique where the printing plate is made from a collage. I loved the way you could build up texture and then with a variety of inking techniques, achieve a surface with a lot of depth.

Artist Mark Kinsella walks us through the process of creating one of his beautiful fused glass bowls, which are available at The Hillsborough Gallery of Art.

Scratchboard is a 2D subtractive art form done on a white clay-coated board covered with black India ink.

What does “mixed media” mean? The answer varies from piece to piece and artist to artist. Here’s what it means in the case of my painting, “Dreaming of Magnolias,” shown below.

To increase people’s awareness of the topic of climate change, I turned my attention to the expression of the delicacy and beauty of our earth.

If I had $10: 
I would spend $7 on paper, $2 on paint, and $1 on a brush.  

When people find out that I am a glassblower, the questions start coming! I thought I’d put them in a blog for anyone to read.