Hilly Simon

For Hilly Simon, art is a language that does not always need words. For years, she found her expression in music. As a professional singer, she brought jazz, soul, and Portuguese fado to life—musical styles in which emotion, stillness, and human stories come together. That same sensitivity now forms the basis of her visual work.

Born on July 11, 1962, in Paramaribo, Suriname, Hilly moved to the Netherlands with her family at a young age. Her artistic journey took shape there, first on stage and later behind the canvas. Where her voice once carried the emotions, the brush now speaks.

Hilly developed her own minimalist visual language in which tranquility, simplicity, and harmony take center stage. Her still lifes and landscapes are not literal representations of reality, but serene encounters with light, space, and memory. Through deliberate simplicity, a world emerges in which the smallest nuances acquire meaning.

Her paintings invite you to slow down. They create a moment of stillness in a world that is constantly in motion. In the subtle balance between color, form, and emptiness, space is created for the viewer's imagination. Each work tells a story without revealing it fully.

For Hilly Simon, painting is a continuous journey of discovery – a quest for beauty in the everyday and for the power of simplicity. Her work shows that silence can sometimes say more than words and that art, just like music, can speak directly to the heart.