Emma Hill - Fine Artist

Emma Hill is a figurative painter living and working in London.  The artist's work encompasses portraiture, still life, landscape, intimate interior scenes and quiet corners in small London gardens. Emma works from life and in her home-as-studio, combining observation with an intuitive response to both the sitter, landscape or set of objects and paint.​  
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The artist's early art school training was rooted in painterly abstraction, elements of which carry through to her figurative work today.  Art tutors whose influence and guidance she has cherished have included artists Clive King, Allan Ramsay, Ian Rowlands and Daniel Shadbolt.
 

Emma had an art school training in the early 1990s, both in the UK (BA Hons Fine Art and French at Exeter University) and in France (Ecole Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence).  Seduced by the world of glossy magazines, Emma became an award-winning beauty and fragrance journalist writing about the subject for many years. Yet, even when in the field making notes about the lavender and iris harvests in Provence, Emma was building up sketchbooks of drawings.  

Today Emma works as an artist as well as being a writer and communications consultant for luxury beauty brands.  Emma has exhibited in group shows as well as independently. Finding The Light was Emma’s most recent solo exhibition, at 35 North Contemporary Fine Art in Brighton. The sell-out show featured still life flower paintings, and plein air paintings made in her compact London garden.  In 2023 the artist took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year painting journalist and broadcaster, Susanna Reid and had a two-artist exhibition in Pimlico where she collaborated with ceramicist, Corisande Albert: Porcelain and Painting.

Paintings by Emma Hill have been pre-selected for both the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club.  Emma exhibits with Chelsea Art Society where she is an elected Member and has had two previous solo shows in London in 2004 and 2019.  

Emma paints from her home in west London.  If you are interested in any of the works on the site or in commissioning a portrait, please get in touch. Paintings listed are framed unless specified. 

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