Hilary Nunan was born in Cork, studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design and graduated with a first class honours degree in Fine Art in 1997. Since then she has regularly contributed to exhibitions in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Sligo, Limerick, Belfast, London & Sydney, Australia. Her work forms part of many public and private collections such as AIB Collection, Cork Corporation, Limerick County Council, University College Cork, Cork Institute of Technology, Alliance Française de Cork amongst others.

Colour, texture and a love of nature are the driving forces in Hilary’s work. Taking a very spontaneous and intuitive approach Hilary applies a working method of building, layering and weaving a combination of natural fibres and acrylic paint while constantly exploring colour harmonies. The fibres are mulched down, incorporated with the acrylic colour and applied either by brush or pallet knife, at times manipulating the material into a thread like quality. Layers of thick rich impasto are scored and marked, overlaid in part by thin layers of translucent and opaque colour. The finished piece is very much dependant on the high quality of raw materials used.