Elizabeth Hilton

Elizabeth Hilton was born in West Boise — "back when it wasn't quite suburban sprawl," as she describes it. She specializes in oils and mixed media, using vintage wallpaper, magazines, and old books as her substrate. Her practice is process-oriented: she begins with surface texture and an image and works without a pre-decided destination. "I start the piece and then it finishes itself," she has said.

Her finished work yields what she calls nostalgic creatures: forms emerging from layers of glue, pencil, and sweat, with bits of the past — faded wallpaper, advertisements from old magazines, the now-retro color of a turquoise washing machine — visible through the surface. A 2023 series at Seven Hills Art used the smaller acrylic-on-Yupo-collage format and titled works after song lyrics (Tainted Love, Tangled up in Blue, Hooked on a Feeling). She is part of JG's November Beyond Paint mixed-media program.