About

Hili is a botanical bas-relief artist, artisan, and forager based in Donegal, Ireland. Her art and craft are profoundly shaped by the rugged beauty of the Irish landscape, drawing on its textures, materials, and energies to shape her distinctive practice.

Hili's journey with plaster art began with a deeply meaningful intention: to create art that her blind husband could experience in a physical, three-dimensional way. This approach has allowed her to combine the tactile qualities of working with plaster, with her deep love of foraging for natural materials. She uses locally foraged ingredients to make her honey based watercolour paints, such as flowers, roots, sand, soil, ash, resin and dew, weaving these elements and textures into her work to illuminate the essence of the living energies that surround us. With every plant she works with, Hili also creates a flower essence with wild spring water, distilling the subtle vibrational qualities of the blossoms she gathers into the work.

Through her process, Hili bridges the tactile and the transcendent, capturing the raw, organic beauty of the earth, while honoring the deeply rooted stories it holds.

This same ethos carries into her artisan creations, crafted from locally foraged ingredients with a commitment to connection and sustainability.