Terry Havey Hilt

Born in Bar Harbor, in 1953, Terry Havey Hilt is a native of Maine with many generations of ancestors on both sides immigrating and settling in HancockCounty.  She is a graduate of University of  Maine at Orono and Boston University; and received her PhD from University of Maryland School of Social Work.  She is a psychotherapist as well as artist and published poet.

As a child Terry was influenced by her father’s love of nature and accompanied him on surveys of lakes and streams of Maine in his capacity as a Maine State biologist.  Her paintings have been shown in three solo exhibitions and at numerous group shows at her representative gallery, Aucocisco, since 2002. Additionally, she has participated in shows at Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Clark House Gallery, Elan Fine Arts  and  Shaws Jewelry and Gallery. Terry received the  Monhegan Artist in Residence award for 2005 and completed the Artist in Residency with the national park service at Schoodic Point (2006). 

Terry’s expressionist modernist watercolor paintings are  an action-oriented, kinesthetic response to the forces of nature.  Maine coastal modernist painters such as Marin, Betts, and Tam who have explored nature as force and energy have influenced her work, as have the watercolorists of Monhegan: Brooks, Goldsmith  and Fitzgerald. Terry summers in Lamoine on Frenchman Bay, and spends winters between their Gorham, Maine residence and a Boston area condominium.

December 2011