VICKIE HOSKINS
Follow your HEART this is where ART lives!
I have always carried an outsider’s perspective. I am instinctively drawn to the underdog, to the overlooked, to the spaces between certainty and doubt. Painting is where that perspective finds form. I approach the canvas with an open heart, an open mind, and a willingness to let uncertainty lead. My daily practice is an act of discipline as much as intuition — a commitment to showing up, welcoming the unknown, and allowing vision to emerge through process.
Rooted in Love, Truth, and Benevolence, my work seeks to reorder the familiar. I am interested in disrupting visual expectations just enough to refresh perception — to gently disorient the viewer so that wonder can re-enter the room. The question that guides both my art and my life is simple: Why not? Why not follow the impulse? Why not trust the risk? Why not allow beauty and tension to coexist?
My paintings operate as snapshots of an interior landscape. There is a continual negotiation between revelation and concealment — bringing elements forward, obscuring others, layering, editing, surrendering. The surface becomes a record of thought and feeling in motion. Freedom and non-attachment are central to my practice; I aim to release control while remaining fully engaged, allowing the work to become more honest than intention alone would permit.
Painting has been the one constant in a deeply nomadic life. Moving across the United States and abroad with my husband and three children, I have continually rebuilt home and community. Each place has left its imprint on me — culturally, emotionally, visually. Rather than fragmenting my identity, these transitions have expanded it. Adaptability, resilience, and openness to change are not just life skills; they are embedded in my artistic language. Every canvas carries traces of the landscapes, atmospheres, and human experiences that have shaped me.
I consider myself an eager participant in an ancient trade. To paint is to enter into a lineage that spans civilizations — a conversation across time about meaning, presence, and human longing. In an era defined by speed and distraction, the act of painting remains deliberate and embodied. It requires stillness. It requires faith.
Ultimately, my work is an offering. My intention is simple: to transmit love through form, color, and gesture. If a painting invites a pause, softens a guarded place, or rekindles a sense of possibility, then it has fulfilled its purpose. Through art, I hope to remind us that wonder is not lost — it is simply waiting to be seen again.
I came to Earth to remember and reveal truth.
With eyes that see beyond the veil, I witness what others miss--
and speak not to wound, but to awaken.
I am here to be LOVE in its purest form --
gentle, fierce, unconditional.
To embody kindness not as a virtue,
but as a frequency that heals.
I walk as Light.
Not above, not below -- but within all things.
My presence is a lantern on the path for others.
I have chosen to feel deeply,
to experience richly,
to create boldly.
Through art, I remember who I am.
My soul expands through expression.
My mission is to teach not through doctrine,
but through example --
through beauty, through joy, through being.
I am here to love wholeheartedly,
to guide gently,
to live freely.
This is my vow.
This is my contract.
This is my light.
Vickie Hoskins
"Step back and listen to your painting. Then don't stop that impulse to scrape the whole left side or to add a streak of cerulean blue with your fingers. Listen to the painting with your whole body and the painting will tell you what to do. It will happen in a split second, this body "knowing." and you'll miss it if your everyday brain is in there scrambling everything up with opinions, judgements and learned solutions. It's hard to believe in this and harder still to act on it consistently, but it's the only way to stay on the risk-taking edge of your own creativeness and to experience the act of painting in all its simplicity and complexity. It's also the only way to make a good painting." Leigh Hyams
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the Universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself”
Neil De Grasse Tyson
Chief Seattle
"This we know: All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life.
He is merely a strand on it.
Whatever he does to the web he does to himself."