Hilary Eddy was born and spent her childhood in Surrey, England where her mother's love of colourful flowers and her father's broad appreciation of nature proved to have a profound influence on her future artistic concerns and interests.

Following a formal education at grammar school, she attended college in North Wales where she attained a B.A. and was awarded the Douglas Williams Memorial Award for Excellence in Art. She then came to the U.S. where she pursued her career at Purdue University gaining her M.A. in Fine Art in 1974.

Hilary has held more than 60 solo exhibitions of her oil paintings nationally at museums, universities and commercial galleries, including the Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV; Berman Museum, Anniston, AL; Chicago Botanic Garden, IL; Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, IN; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; Olin Fine Arts Centre, Washington, PA. Eddy has exhibited her paintings internationally at AmerikaHaus Galerie, Hamburg, Germany; John Innes Institute, Norwich, England and her work has toured Taiwan and Singapore.

She has won more than 40 awards in national and regional exhibitions including the Grand Prize and 1st Place in the Experimental Category in The Artists Magazine Competition which had over 10,000 entries; Best of Show, National Art Competition, La Jolla, CA; Best of Show (twice) and a 2nd Place Award, Indiana Artists' Club, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Best of Show (Acquisition) Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; numerous awards in the Hoosier Salon Exhibit, IN, and merit awards in Redding, CA; Rhinelander, WI; National Oil Painters' Society, Chicago, IL,; and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society where she has been awarded Signature Membership. She has also been awarded Signature Membership in the International Artists' Society.

Hilary's paintings have been exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Salmagundi Club Galleries, New York; and Owensboro Museum of Art, KY. She is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, amongst which are Privat Galerie Plewast, Hamburg, Germany; the St. Louis University, MO, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN; American States' Insurance Co., Indianapolis, IN; Specialty Hybrids, West Lafayette, IN; Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA; 1st National Bank of Odon, IN; Digestive Health Care,Indianapolis,IN. and Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. She also has works in many private collections throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan.

Her paintings have been featured in the publications International Artist, Art Calendar, The Artists Magazine, Arts Indiana, Sycamore Review, and the Daler-Rowney Art Paper. She has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, The Wabash Valley Arts Project and the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art.

Hilary lives on the north coast of California with her beautiful Norwegian Elkhound, Heidi Lyn. She is represented locally by the Prentice Gallery in Mendocino, by the Zantman Galleries in Carmel, CA, the Saper Galleries, East Lansing, MI, and Ramey Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA.

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