Hilary Mosberg is a multi-media visual artist, living and working in Sonoma County, CA at the northern edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She moved to San Francisco to study at the San Francisco Art Institute and never looked back.

Her work explores the sensations and beauty of the natural world and the tension between representation and abstraction


Process & Inspiration

A collector of the foxed and stained, of twigs and seeds and forest debris my artwork is a compendium of impressions gathered from the natural beauty surrounding my home and studio in Sonoma County, California.

Inspiration comes from a fragment of antique paper or the deckle on the pages of an old book, the feeling of color, or a memory just out of reach. Sometimes it’s found in a liminal place where water meets land, in the the iodine smell of the coast on a path seen and felt in all seasons and weathers or the flicker of sky through redwoods at dusk.

Working from observation at the intersection of representation and abstraction I create mixed media works in watercolor, gouache, ink and oil that investigate how these gathered sensations might look as a painting.