Flora

Artist

Hilary Edwards

Artist bio

Hilary Siber Edwards is an artist living and working in Charlotte since 2016. She graduated in 2007 from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Environmental Design and in 2015 from Clemson University with an MFA in Painting. Her personal studio work explores the fractured aspects of perception through contemporary landscape painting and sculptures. She creates murals and sculptural installations as well as teaching part-time at the college level.

Visual Arts 2026 Contest

Title

Medium/Genre

Painting

Artist Statement

My painting was created just after I gave birth to my daughter. I wanted to depict the mystery of creation - that we are spiritual beings that God has given form to. I want to display the splendor of the things we cannot see; the process of being made, which God is fully present in and the author of!

How it fits into contest

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

Psalm 139:13-14