The City of Hillsboro is proud to announce the winners for the 2025 Picture Hillsboro and Permanent Collection Awards.

The two annual awards support local artists, while bringing new artworks into the City’s Public Art Collection, which is displayed in public facilities for the community, employees, partners, and visitors to enjoy.

By directly supporting artists, the City validates artmaking as a professional practice and contributes to the multi-million-dollar cultural economy of the region.

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2025 Picture Hillsboro: About the Artwork, Artist & Award

Washington County-based painter, William Martini, has been awarded the 2025 Picture Hillsboro Award for his vibrant artwork, A Little Snow, Jackson Bottom Wetlands, which was painted on-site near the Tualatin River in February 2025.  

William (Bill) Martini has been painting for over 30 years.  He has focused on plein air landscapes and portraits in recent times. He has lived in Washington County for 27 years.  His ancestors came to Oregon in the 1840’s, and he feels the Pacific Northwest is his proper place.  Bill enjoys contemplating the passage of time, our inevitable decay and disappearance, and the mysterious transformations and renewals that may follow.

The Picture Hillsboro Award seeks artwork that depicts the people, places, and things of Hillsboro. The selected artist receives a $1,000 commission for the purchase and reproduction rights of their artwork. Limited edition archival reproductions will be created and presented as gifts to dignitaries visiting Hillsboro and during official City trips throughout the world. 

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2025 Permanent Collection: About the Artwork, Artist & Award

Hillsboro-based Elizabeth Diane Nave was presented the 2025 Permanent Collection Award for her artwork, Groveland Drive, a dramatic gouache painting capturing a storm rolling over the coast range and across the open space just north of Hillsboro’s urban growth boundary. 

Elizabeth is in the midst of a fascinating transition, both in her relationship with art and how she approaches creativity. Her background in tech failure analysis gives her a unique perspective on the problem-solving aspects of art— finding solutions to visual and compositional challenges. Her involvement in birding and spending time in nature provides rich, dynamic inspiration for her work. She has the desire to shift from focusing on intricate details to embracing a looser, more responsive approach to art. Nature itself, with its constantly changing landscapes, shifting light and unpredictable movement is a wonderful guide for this kind of transition. The fields and wetlands serve as metaphors for what she wants to cultivate in her art: natural, organic and ever evolving.

The Permanent Collection Award is selected by a community-based committee and original artwork can be purchased for up to $1,000 and to be added to the City’s Public Art Collection. The purpose of this award is to highlight artists living and working in Hillsboro, especially those that create in styles that may not fit within the parameters of the Picture Hillsboro award.

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About Hillsboro’s Public Art Collection

The Public Art Program works with other City departments as well as partners throughout the community in creating a welcoming Hillsboro by bringing art to public spaces throughout the city. Our Public Art Collection includes over 100 works of art from locally, nationally, and internationally known artists that serve to create memorable public places that strengthen our community, enliven our neighborhoods, remind us of our history, and celebrate our ethnic and cultural diversity.

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