About the Artist

HilaryDiane is a mixed media assemblage artist based in the Marigny in New Orleans.

She fell in love with New Orleans as a teenager and immediately felt pulled toward the city’s emotional intensity — the way beauty and imperfection exist side by side here. The color, ritual, architecture, spirituality, music, mystery, gardens, cemeteries, old buildings, neighborhood shrines, and layered histories all continue to influence her work today.

Hilary Diane’s earliest and most important artistic influence was her mother, an oil painter whose instinct for color and perspective left a lasting impression. Immersed in her mother’s world of painting from an early age, she created alongside her while developing a deep appreciation for atmosphere, composition, and emotional storytelling through art. Receiving her first oil painting set from family friend Bob Ross, Hilary developed an early understanding of art as both transformation and escape.

Her artwork combines reclaimed materials, ornate frames, found objects, resin, paint, sculpture, florals, and hand-built elements to create one-of-a-kind assemblage pieces that feel like tiny altars, memory boxes, or artifacts from imagined worlds.

Following a major life-changing hardship, HilaryDiane’s relationship to creativity changed dramatically. Her work became less about perfection and more about emotional truth, transformation, beauty, humor, resilience, and building meaning from fragments.

When not creating, HilaryDiane spends her time caring for her cats, spoiling the neighborhood cats of the Marigny, collecting unusual objects, and transforming her home and studio into evolving creative spaces layered with color, ornament, memory, and atmosphere.