Alana Hilpert-Jones Art

As you’ve hopefully already figured out, my name is Alana Jones (formerly Hilpert), and I’m an artist.

 

 I first began to realize that I loved art when I was about seven years old. My mother had decided to homeschool me and my three siblings, and she taught us about art through a variety of means, including two memorable card games that featured vibrant works by Rennaissance artists and Impressionists. I didn’t care much for what was essentially “go fish” with fancier cards, but the paintings captured my attention like nothing yet had. I spent so much time reading and re-reading the short biographies of the Impressionists—especially Monet—that my mother bought me more books and eventually enrolled me in weekly art classes. My first painting done there, in washable tempera on brown paper, was a still life of a vase. My little sister looked at it and said “It’s a dress”. 

I hope it’s safe to say that I’ve come a long way since then, through my instructor's persistent guidance and time spent in programs such as The Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and a summer seminar held by the Savannah College of Art and Design.

After six months spent in Europe and Western Asia in early 2018, my work has drifted back towards the influence of those masters I first loved as a child, and landscapes in oil have become my fascination for now. For now, because it’s certain that someday that will change and perhaps in five years I’ll be copying Picasso or Hopper, but that’s what I love about art. I don’t have to choose.

I’m twenty one years old now, and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, but what I am is an artist, and that’s something that never has to change.

Check out my gallery, and please email me if you have any questions! Many of my paintings and drawings are for sale, and I am currently taking commissions.