Trish Hurley Artist Information

Film still of Trish Hurley painting in her Newport, Rhode Island studio for the documentary Patterns of Modesty.  

Film still of Trish Hurley painting in her Newport, Rhode Island studio for the documentary Patterns of Modesty.  

Name: Trish Hurley, born Patricia Ellen Hurley, but has always gone by Trish Hurley.  

Born: 1965 in Quincy, Massachussetts.  Youngest of three girls.

Early Life: 
"Lived in Rockland til I was 17 then moved away for college, didn't move far as I had a close relationship with my mother and my father died of cancer when I was 11.  Went to college at Swain School of Design then moved back to live with my mother and care for her as she died of cancer when I was 26.  Moved to Quincy MA, worked in frame shops and art galleries from Newbury Street, Boston and Cambridge to the south shore of Boston." -Trish Hurley

Education:  

  • BFA Swain School of Design
  • MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth

Mediums:

  • Oil
  • Monoprint
  • Acrylic

 

 

Production still of Trish Hurley painting on oil on canvas in her Newport, RI studio for the Patterns of Modesty documentary film. 

Production still of Trish Hurley painting on oil on canvas in her Newport, RI studio for the Patterns of Modesty documentary film. 

Trish Hurley's oil palette.

Trish Hurley's oil palette.