We lost one of our finest artists this week to a senseless murder. Chun-Yan Hilyard was strangled by her husband Tuesday morning during an argument, then he dumped her body by a bridge not three miles from their house in Egg Harbor Township. Wednesday he reported her missing. And had the gal to go by the O.C. Center to demand the location of her paintings- not if anyone had seen her. Thursday a jogger found her body and not much later the police had the husband in cuffs. We're all stunned in the community. She was loving, giving, her art warm and ecstatic- impressionistic- and she was a rising star. They are holding a memorial at the Ocean City Art Center tonight. Her work is currently on exhibition there as well as here at theRRCA this month. She was just in here Sunday talking with me. She amazed me with her personal warmth and generosity of spirit.
Pointless violence snuffing out beauty that could not be contained.
She was a member of the RRCA, the Noyes Museum, the Ocean City Art Center and showed with a gallery in Stone Harbor. 45 with a 10 y/0 son and twin boys, younger.
Her website is- www.chun-yanart.com
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