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Artist Statement:
And God created man in His own
image. Trying to duplicate
that image in charcoal brings
to me a taste of ecstasy too
puny as even to compare. In
attempting to copy man's
image, it is like peering at
His reflection in a mirror so
poor, for all I see while
doing so is hazy and blurred.
With the turn of the
millennium at age 62, I
discovered a love, and through
self-teaching, a talent for
the capturing of faces--faces
especially of my people of
color in a medium that lends
itself so incredibly well to
the wonderful shades of
blackness.
Thank you for taking the time
to view my work. I would
really appreciate your signing
my Artist's Guestbook and an
email from you so that I could
forward my message of
appreciation.
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Further Information
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Artist Exhibitions:
Reichhold Center for the
Performing Arts
University of the Virgin
Islands
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
November 2001
New Horizon School
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
April 2002
The Rock Lounge
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
April 2002, June 2002
We From Upstreet
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
February, 2003
Thomas Jefferson Elementary
School
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Further Information
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Hilda Lewis Joyce was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She graduated with a B.S. degree in Secretarial Science from Morgan State University and an M.A. degree in Business Teacher Education from Michigan State University. After 35 years as Associate Professor of Office Systems and Administration and as Director of Academic Administration at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), Hilda retired in 2004.
Hilda remembers, when she was in the 7th grade, her first attempt at art--a pencil sketch of a group of ladies standing in a circle which she copied from a magazine. She and her art teacher were quite pleased with that first attempt.
In 1972, she joined an acrylic art class at UVI where she learned how to construct a canvas and the supplies she needed to purchase. Then, she and her class mates were left entirely to themselves to discover and develop their own talents. Out of that self-learning experience came acrylic paintings of a still life, a partially dressed female model, a young boy, and a portrait of the comedian Moms Mabley. Twenty-one years later in 1993, inspired by her love for the Lord, Hilda picked up paint brushes and house paint and filled in a wall of her home with a mural of Christ, later to be destroyed by Hurricane Marilyn along with her other previously mentioned acrylic keepsakes.
Inspired in September 2000 by a photograph of a recent UVI graduate, a desire to capture that beautiful Madonna-like face led Hilda to pick up a sketch pad and pencil, and her first "rather coarse" piece was born. Completely ignorant of the supplies and techniques needed for the charcoal medium and for drawing faces, she bought books, visited art stores where she "picked the brains" of the sales clerks, and searched the world wide web. Twice she was told after showing her first three or four drawings, "You don't really need to take an art class-just practice, practice, and keep practicing."
Hilda presents to you, through her premiere portfolio, the fruit of her practice.
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