{"id":38,"date":"2026-09-17T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:06:06","slug":"about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/about-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default wp-duotone-unset-1\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hilary-Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling woman wearing a black shirt with flowers\" class=\"wp-image-87\" style=\"width:234px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hilary-Portrait.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hilary-Portrait-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hilary-Portrait-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilary Stoddard (b. 1983) is a representational oil painter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She creates drawings and paintings using traditional methods, channeling her twenty years as a graphic designer to inform her compositional choices. Inspired by the natural world as well as human emotion, she hopes to expand her fine art practice while continuing her design work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilary has studied under the exceptional artists Alia El-Bermani and Catherine Bobkoski, and has taken classes at the Academy of Realist Art Toronto and New Masters Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group Exhibitions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2026 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>31st Annual Juried Exhibition<\/em>, Fine Arts League of Cary, Cary, NC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>FRESH<\/em>, ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public Art Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Classy Cart Creations<\/em>, Artsplosure, Raleigh, NC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Stoddard (b. 1983) is a representational oil painter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She creates drawings and paintings using traditional methods, channeling her twenty years as a graphic designer to inform her compositional choices. Inspired by the natural world as well as human emotion, she hopes to expand her fine art practice while continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilarystoddard.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}