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The bright shade of blue that dominates this picture could be the Celtic Sea on a hot day; its top runs straight across the canvas at 90 degrees, like a horizon line, and its lower reach curves around like the bay. A swirl of yellow peeps below the top left corner, where a child might logically think the sun should go. ‘Children’s art ’, Roger Hilton said, ‘is often charming and you can borrow from it. The difference is I think that children are essentially realists, whereas a mature painter is not.’ It was not until he was entering middle age that Hilton matured as a painter, which for him meant going abstract (later in the 1960s he would do the controversial thing by returning to the figurative). Like others of his generation, World War II had imposed a halt on his development: as a commando, he had been taken prisoner of war in the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942, and spent the rest of the war interned.