Roger Hilton
(British, 1911–1975)
Biography
Roger Hilton was a British abstract painter. Influenced by the work of Piet Mondrian after a trip to the Netherlands, he began painting in controlled whites, reds, and blacks within a shallow pictorial space, using color as formal building blocks for balanced compositions. Describing his own improvisational practice, Hilton said that an artist was “a man swinging out into the void.” His later work returned back to figuration, especially simplified nudes. By the mid-1950s, he opened up the restrained elements of his work and began to identify with the Abstract Expressionists, engaging with more gestural and lively brushwork. Born Roger Hildesheim on April 30, 1911 in London, England, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under the painter Henry Tonks. During Hilton’s World War II service, he was captured and subsequently imprisoned for three years after an air raid on Dieppe. Returning to a prolific career after the end of the war, he would go on to exhibit at the Tate St. Ives, Kettles Yard, and the St. Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among others. The artist died on February 23, 1975 in Botallack, England.
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