Rose Hilton

Rose Hilton née Phipps, (15 August 1931 – 19 March 2019)[1] was a British painter living in Cornwall.[2] Born in Kent, in 1931, she attended the Royal College of Art in London, winning the Life Drawing and Painting prize as well as the Abbey Minor Scholarship to Rome.[3]

Upon her return to London, she began teaching art, and, in the late 1950s met her future husband, the leading abstract artist Roger Hilton. Roger actively discouraged his wife’s artistic endeavours, but following his death in 1975 she took up her brushes again. In 1977 she had her first solo show at Newlyn Art Gallery, and her post-impressionist, figurative paintings have achieved wide popularity. Her work is often compared to that of the French Nabi painter, Pierre Bonnard and is noticeably influenced by that of Henri Mattisse.[4]

In 2008, a retrospective of Rose Hilton's work was held at Tate St Ives.[5]

References
  1. "Rose Hilton, artist in the modern Cornish tradition praised for her vivid colours and generous spirit – obituary". The Telegraph. 20 March 2019.
  2. "Interviews". www.artcornwall.org.
  3. The Abbey Minor scholarship was the lesser of two annually awarded scholarships, enabling promising young artists to travel to and work in Rome
  4. "The late flowering of Rose Hilton". 1843. 13 January 2017.
  5. Tate. "Rose Hilton: A selected retrospective – Exhibition at Tate St Ives". Tate.
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