Victoria Hilliard became a student at Exeter Art College in the 1970s. In 2006 she completed a degree in Fine Art at Cornwall College. While she enjoys painting and drawing, her first love is kiln fired relief ceramic pictures. She has lived in Penwith for the past fifteen years and has exhibited widely during a long career. Outlets include Art Space Gallery, St Ives, and the National Trust.
Susan Hillier is originally from Surrey. Since leaving art school in 1970, she has been a professional artist. For several years she was a freelance illustrator for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where her work included the dissection of herbarium specimens for scientific illustrations. She has painted prize winning orchids for the Royal Horticultural Society, and has been awarded RHS medals, including gold for her paintings. She has undertaken a large number of commissions for a variety of figurative work, much of it plant-based. She is an accomplished facsimile painter, and has worked by recommendation of the National Portrait Gallery.
A keen gardener, Susan is a founder member of the Society of Botanical Artists. Her illustrations have been included in 'The Botanical Palette'. She has contributed illustrations for seven gardening books by Alan Titchmarsh, and in 'Exotic Botanical Illustration' by Rosie and Meriel.
She teaches botanical illustration for the SBA's diploma course. Besides conducting regular classes in the West Country, Susan teaches abroad, exhibits in commercial galleries and works to commission. Her solo exhibitions include one at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. Her work is held in private collections worldwide.
Kitty Hillier was born in London. She took a Foundation Diploma at Falmouth School of Art in 2004 before going on to Bath Spa University, where in 2007 she obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting.
She works from a studio in Falmouth. In 2021 she was granted a residency with a view to presenting her work at the Cornwall Design Forum, run by Doorstep Creative.
Her work has been widely shown in Cornwall, Somerset and London.
Hillier is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2021).
Anna Althea Hills was born in Ohio and studied art in Chicago and New York. During the first decade of the 20th century Hills travelled round Europe.
From 1909 to 1911 she studied in St Ives, and in Lamorna with John Noble BARLOW. During 1911 her companions there were her sister Nellie, a china decorator, and the Australian artist Rose LOWCAY, a fellow student of Barlow.
After returning to the USA, she moved to Los Angeles in 1912, settling in Laguna Beach the following year.
A landscape painter, Hills became well known for her distinctive palette knife technique. Developing a career as a teacher and lecturer, she became an ardent promoter of arts education for children. She was a founder member of the Laguna Beach Art Association, which came into being in 1918. Thanks to her drive and determination, a fundraising effort bore fruit in 1929 with the creation of a permanent exhibiting gallery for the Laguna Beach Art Association.
According to Frank Ruhrmund, of the Western Morning News in 1973, Hilton was 'One of Britain's leading modern painters, a first prize-winner in the John Moores Exhibition 1963, he has exhibited at Gimpel Fils, Tooths and the Waddington Gallery, London, the Tokio Biennale, and the International Biennale, Venice....Although he has worked in Cornwall for many years it is, I believe, his first one-man show to be presented in the county - an astonishing fact when one considers his achievements and reputation which are, of course, enormous.'
Hilton arrived with wife Rose, in 1965 to live at Botallack, near St Just in Penwith, West Cornwall, declaring (as Jeremy LeGrice recalls) 'with considerable regret that he had been driven out of London by behaving insufferably to the most important people in the art world'. He died there in 1975 after a long illness.
In 2011, a centennial exhibition and retrospective celebrating his birth is being given, with the organisational help of Rose HILTON, by the Newlyn Art Gallery (February-April).
Fergus Hilton is the son of artists Roger HILTON and Rose HILTON and has spent most of his life in Cornwall. After a year of studying English in London's Westfield College, he spent a year working on a kibbutz in Israel, before returning to live in Cornwall.
Terming his paintings as 'abstract expressionism', his work is virtually always in mixed media and allows for 'colours and shapes to argue with each other' (Artist's statement, Rainy Day exhibition).
Rose Phipps and her late husband, the artist Roger HILTON, settled in Cornwall in 1965, into a cottage near St Just in the far west of Cornwall, where she lived for the rest of her life. It was not until after his death in 1975 that she could once again return to her painting and expand her career into becoming a leading artist. In later life she was regarded as a feminist icon, and was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'Women's Hour'.
In a Guardian obituary (28.3.2019) she was described as 'generous to a fault, including to those who beat a path to her door to ask only about Roger, tending his legacy and curating a centenary exhibition of his paintings at the Phil Whiting in 2011.'
Her paintings use both softly muted and brilliant colouration; are highly individual and identifiable. Cross comments on comparisons with the intimate paintings of Vuillard, Bonnard and Matisse.
Among her close friends were Sandra BLOW, John MILLER, Mary STORK, Jane AKEROYD, Patrick HERON and many others of the Newlyn and Penwith Societies, of which she was a member. She exhibited at many mixed and solo exhibitions, and regularly at the David Messum Gallery, London. Her work is avidly collected.
A much-loved and highly acclaimed painter, Rose Hilton died in March 2019, aged 87.
Born in London, the son of the foremost painter, Roger HILTON, Matt is currently living in Casteireng, Aude, France.
An artist son (one of two) of famed British artists Roger HILTON and his wife Rose HILTON (nee Phipps), Bo is an accomplished painter in his own right. He is the brother of Fergus HILTON, also an artist and poet. Bo has risen to the challenge of creating his own unique career as an artist. His work has been exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery, Penzance and other local venues, as well as nationally.
For a short period in recent years he teamed up with a friend, Murray Lachlan Young, to open an attractive modern gallery on Chapel Street, Penzance, called the Hilton-Young Gallery, but the life of a gallery owner and shopkeeper was not one to be sustained for long, for two such creative people.
Diana Hilton lives and works in Mousehole. She was born in South Shields, and after training as a ballet dancer, she spent 20 years in theatre stage management.
In 1990 she undertook a foundation course in Art & Design in Bristol, where she learnt etching from the printmaker Steve Hoskins.
Her work has been exhibited in Chester and Bristol, and at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions (1996 and 1998).
Hind was the son of a Nottingham lace manufacturer. He is recorded in a list covering artists from the 'Newlyn school' and those working in the Lamorna Valley. He was also a student under Julius OLSSON and Louis GRIER in St Ives. However, he is not best known nor recognised as a visual artist but rather as a journalist and art historian.
Tovey (2009, p212) explains his connection with the artists of West Cornwall: 'Hind had a spell at the Art Journal, before becoming editor of the Pall Mall Budget in 1893. When this folded in 1895, he decided to learn how to paint, as he felt that this would improve his art criticism. during his time in St Ives in 1895-6, and later in 1903-4, he divided his time between art and journalism, and he published a number of articles, in a variety of London magazines on the work of individual artists, and on such matters as Show Day, the art schools in St Ives and landscape painting in the colony.'
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives, she is also noted as a painter who lived at Thurlow Road, Hampstead in 1904, when she exhibited at the RA.
Mike Hindle is a painter working from Krowji studios. His work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall and beyond.
He has led workshops in portrait sketching at Truro Arts Company (2018).
Doug Hinge has owned his own gallery in Newquay for many years. He paints lighthearted, quirky beach and harbour scenes.
An artist of this name exhibited at the Orion Gallery at Christmas in 1972; however, there is no listing in Buckman, and no further information available at present.
In 1897, at NAG's eighth Exhibition, the artist sold The Trout Stream. She further exhibited and sold All in a Garden Gay in September 1900, and in 1901 The Rambler Rose and Spring. We have no further personal details of this artist, and she is not listed under this name in the standard reference guides; further information would thus be welcome.
Paul Hoare is an exhibitor at the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters. He has a studio at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes.
Hobkirk was born in Edinburgh, and from 1897 is found to have given St Ives as his exhibition address. Tovey relates some details about his mother, Baroness Farina Firras, and a younger brother who were staying in the town until about 1904, primarily at the Hendra Hotel, and the 1901 Census references him as living with his wife at 4 Albany Terrace.
He was among the members of the St Ives Arts Club to sign the 1898 Glanville letter (regarding artists' concern at over-development and proposed building work in the town). By 1920 his address was given as Tonbridge, Kent, although his studio in St Ives was still attracting rates in his name until 1917 and he is not thought to have been present after 1904.
Paris Flower Market (under the awnings); Garlic Blossom and St Ives Bay were the titles exhibited by this artist at the Whitechapel Exhibition in 1902. He exhibited widely, if not prolifically, elsewhere (J&G list).
After gaining a BA (Hons) in Graphic Information Design from Falmouth School of Art in 1990, Sally Hobson worked as a painter in the animation industry before embarking on a career as a freelance book illustrator during the 1990s. Her illustrated children's books were published by MacMillan, Walker Books, Scholastics, Tiger Press and many international publishing houses. One of her projects brought her into contact with the Government Education Department, illustrating literature which was included in recommended reading schemes as part of the National Curriculum. Her work was featured on the BBC's children's programmes on a regular basis and was also highlighted at the 1997 Edinburgh Book Festival. Her first commission, 'Three Bags Full' was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award for first-time illustrators, and she went on to create illustrations for some 20 further books.
After many years in Surrey, in 2015 Sally Hobson returned to Cornwall, where her wide-ranging artistic and craftmaking skills have contributed significantly to the creative life of her local community.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Born in Zennor, Cornwall she was a student at Leonard John FULLER's St Ives School of Painting after beginning her studies at the Redruth School of Art and the Brighton School of Art.
A keen botanist and Fellow of the Zoological Society and the Royal Entomological Society, she specialised in paintings of flowers which were acclaimed at the Paris Salon. The WCAA inherited one of her scrapbooks, and with it some correspondence (mainly Christmas cards) with her friends and acquaintances.
Hocken was a founder member of the Penwith Society, along with Ben NICHOLSON and Barbara HEPWORTH. Her most controversial work was a painting, The Hollow Men: a visual satire on the community politics of St Ives which raised many eyebrows and aroused some ferocious animosity. She married Mervyn Paul in later life.
A member of the Newlyn Copperworks and 'able lieutenant' to John Drew MacKENZIE at the Newlyn Industrial Class, as described by Stanhope FORBES in 'A Newlyn Retrospect'.
The four large copper plaques - earth, air, fire and water (designed by J D MacKENZIE and Thomas Cooper GOTCH) - that decorate the facade of the Newlyn art gallery were worked by P Hodder, considered to be Mackenzie's right hand man, in the early days of the Newlyn Industrial Class.
A portrait of the famous Cornish historian and President of the Royal Society, Davies Gilbert (1767-1840) was copied by this artist from the original by Henry Howard, and can be viewed at the Helston Folk Museum.
Another portrait by Hodges, of James Bird Read, Mayor of Penryn (1837,1847,1853,1855-57,1860-2 & 1865) is in the art collection of Penryn Town Council and Museum. Philip Prothero Smith, Mayor of Truro (1871-1875 & 1878) was painted by Hodges in 1881 and is in the Truro City Council Collection.
Born on 28 April 1869, in Dunedin, New Zealand, she received her first instruction at the Dunedin School of Art. Hodgkins first visited Cornwall in 1902, from March to June, after attending Norman GARSTIN's summer sketching classes in France in 1901. It was through Garstin that she met the watercolourist Gertrude CROMPTON. The two women became close friends over the next twenty years.
Hodgkins' first sale at NAG was in April, 1902 of the painting A Busy Corner, Arles. These sketching tours she would attend again in 1902 and 1906, both in France, between her travelling widely to paint and exhibit. She had the distinction of being the first woman teacher at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris in 1910.
Her final visit to her native land of New Zealand was in 1912-13, following which she made St Ives in Cornwall her home from 1914 through to 1920. During these years her practice and style changed dramatically, moving from mainly Impressionistic watercolour paintings to large-scale oils with figurative content. Far less conservative an artist than those around her in the older Newlyn school, she was nevertheless friendly and easy in their company. Later, she produced strong work within the fields of still-life and portraiture, and was bracketed with the Neo-Romantics such as Nash, Sutherland, Moore and Piper. She was an original member of the Seven and Five Society, along with her friends Cedric MORRIS, Ben NICHOLSON and Winifred NICHOLSON, but resigned after 1924 when it renamed itself the Seven&Five Abstract Group.
Her many exhibitions and shows took her around Europe and Britain, travelling and joining up with friends in far-flung places, returning to Cornwall for two months in 1931-2, and another month in 1934.
Amongst her closest friends were Garstin (whom she adored, as did her friend Dorothy RICHMOND, also from New Zealand) and Moffat LINDNER in particular, and her admiration of the work of Elizabeth FORBES was especially strong. It was from a letter written home to her mother about Forbes's paintings hanging at NAG that the title of Elizabeth's biography, Singing from the Walls, was chosen. Later, much after Elizabeth's demise, Frances stayed again in Newlyn at the home of a friend Cedric MORRIS.
An extraordinary artist by any judgement, and highly regarded as amongst New Zealand's finest, she died at Herrison House (a psychiatric hospital) near Dorchester, Dorset in England on 13 May 1947. A good photo likeness of her in older age, when she lived in Dorset, is to be found in the frontpiece of the Exhibition catalogue for Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif a show at Auckland Art Gallery which ran from 2005-2006.