Gina McHugh was born and raised at the Jersey shore and moved to Vermont to escape the ever-growing crowds in 2006. Vermont had left an impression on her during a family vacation when she was a child, and it never left.

 

Although Gina was always creative, living in a rural area surrounded by northern forest, gardens, and wildflowers really influenced her art style and inspired her to create more frequently. She lacked the self-confidence in her earlier years to pursue art as a career but has always been happiest while painting. With her children grown, Gina has made her art a higher priority. She now considers her lack of formal training to be a strength, in that she developed her own style with a minimum of outside influence.

 

Gina paints with acrylics on wood panel or stretched canvas and also creates mixed media illustrations. She exhibits at art-craft shows and has a website (twirlingtreeart.com) to showcase and sell her art. Gina’s art won 1st place and 2nd place People’s Choice awards in The Art Dames Society’s First Friday Galleries. She works from her home studio in a quiet corner of Vermont that she loves to share through her artwork.