Painter, draughtsman, etcher and fabric designer, who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1952–6, in 1955 being awarded the Catherine Maude Pearce Scholarship permitting a year of postgraduate study. Exhibited with Young Contemporaries, 1955–6, in 1956 with Leicester Galleries, in 1957 marrying Nicolas Hill. In 1975, she had a solo show at William Darby. Hill painted mostly on a small scale, delicate and charming works which harked back to Bloomsbury and the Euston Road School. In 1976 she completed a watercolour portrait of the writer Graham Greene at his Antibes home. In 1985, a complete catalogue of her work was privately published, with introductions by Richard Morphet and William Packer. Lived in London.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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