About

I make beautiful things out of the chaos.

Vibrant, layered, and unafraid of feeling — my paintings move between the celebratory and the contemplative. Some are pure color and joy; others sit with grief, curiosity, or the conflicting parts of being human. I’m not after a single tidy meaning. I’d rather make work alive enough that you keep finding new things in it — a piece you live alongside, that shifts with your mood and says something about who you are.

No. 01 · The artist

I’ve been making things my whole life.

First, the important part: I’m Virginia — but to just about everyone, I’m Ginny, and I’d love for you to call me that too. I trained as a fine-art animation major at the University of Georgia — though, like a lot of artists, I really started as a kid who never put the pencil down. I fell hard for anatomy and the human figure, and taught myself to draw people from my brother’s stolen comic books (sorry, Brett). I came of age as illustration crossed from two dimensions into 3D and computer graphics, so I’ve had the luxury of working fluently across many mediums. I’ve also spent nineteen years running a digital marketing agency and coaching people through their own hard chapters — which means I’ve watched humanity up close, in every kind of situation. It’s a lovely, beautiful mess, and I believe it’s our work to keep looking for the good in it. Painting is where I do that for myself.

Based inNorth Kansas City, MO

TrainedFine art · Univ. of Georgia

No. 02 · The work

Made to be lived with.

My paintings are vibrant and layered — built from thin, luminous color and a lasting love of the figure. They’re meant to be lived with: to change the temperature of a room, to lift a mood, to say something about you to whoever walks in. Some people sit and meditate with a piece; others just catch a corner of it on a busy morning and feel a little more like themselves. There’s no single right way to meet the work — and that’s the point. I’d rather make something open enough to hold whatever you bring to it.

MediumAcrylic & oil

SurfaceCanvas

The Mighty Coastal King — a painting by Virginia Huling

No. 03 · The process

These days, I start with play.

I begin far more paintings with play than I once did. For years I was so fixed on the outcome — so much pressure to make something “important” — that the pressure regularly stopped me cold. Learning to let that go is where the real work begins. The Memento Mori series came out of a genuinely chaotic, painful chapter of my life; in making it I found both escape and freedom, and the finished paintings have since helped me move through things that kept me stuck. I don’t think those feelings are unique to me — and if putting them into color helps any of us feel a little less alone in the beautiful mess, then the work has done its job.

Each pieceOne of one

Prints byMuseum-grade lab

In her words

“I paint to explore the chaos and the conflicting parts of myself — and, at the same time, to just make something beautiful.”

— Ginny

— Virginia Huling

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