Artist Eileen Hickey Hulme creates luminescent images and paintings through the use and discovery of Nail Polish Lipstick and eyeshadow. Her use of materials and ideas of power and fragility. Are the catalyst to edgy, fun and fashionable pieces of art. 

The psychological complexity of Eileen’s work is balanced between figuration and abstraction. She uses the Gun and rose imagery throughout her paintings to explore these relationships through a gestural freedom and intimacy that simultaneously opens up spatial and psychological dimensions.

She uses herself as an iconic image from time to time for a model of change while re-making the way the world sees women.

Eileen paintings are expressive and pop and at the same time abstracted.

 “At First glance, it’s easy to see this petite blond with tousled hair and an infectious laugh creating paintings of roses, even in the midship salon of a 50 foot yacht. It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine her crafting the pieces using such female accoutrement as lipstick and nail polish. A smattering of cognitive dissonance sets in, however, upon noticing automatic weapons and guns among the flowers. Eileen Hickey-Hulme and her art are not books to be judged by the cover.”

“Eileens dynamic personality is also at one time pretty as a petel on the outside while packing serious firepower on the inside”

-Kitty Merrill The Independent April 30, 2008

Eileen splits her time between New York City where she has a studio in the Bowery neighborhood and a home in Tribecca and her 50 foot yacht in East Hampton. She was originally inspired by the radiance and light of the East End. Eileen shows regularly in both New York City and the Hamptons.

The spectrum of imagery, guns and roses and Eileen’s Life in New York Vs. The Hamptons is a catalyst for the freshness in her painting, she is an avid boater, surfer, and recently Moto Cross Rider. Eileen has found an outlet for her images on apparel that she has developed with designers to create bags, jackets and tshirts.