MAXWELL-HILL, Anne Elizabeth [ SCOTLAND ]
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 Lives and Works in Scotland

    
 

 

Born 1936 Broughty Ferry, only child of physicist Andrew Grey Hill and schoolteacher Edith May Maxwell, who were divorced when she was 4. Her father kidnapped her but she thereafter lived with her mother and grandmother, being taught by her mother at 2 schools. At 11 went to High School in Dundee to which she'd gained a scholarship. She worked in the Art Dept under Thomas Halliday with whom she is still friendly. 1957 left High School, going to Dundee College of Art where she studied drawing and painting under Alberto Morocco, Gordon Cameron and J. Mackintosh Patrick, obtaining a diploma in drawing and painting in 1959 and a post diploma, commended. Kate Fewster assisted her for some time, exhibiting her work and arranged for a couple of exhibitions locally and delivered paintings to exhibitions in London. 1960 on leaving Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy School. She also shared an exhibition in Arbroath Art Gallery that year with her colleague from the art course Pat Gordon. She spent the summer at Hospital Field College of art as postgraduate 1963 she finished at the R.A. having won 2 prizes the Landseer for Composition and the other for landscape painting. The staff at the R.A. said she was the best young portrait painter in London. She gained a lectureship at Carliste College of Art but this work was a mistake, she started the disability of multiple sclerosis and had to resign after less than a year.

  

1. Pine Trees at San Clemente, Umbria II , 1998 WATERCOLOR
30 x 21 cm / 12 x 8½ in
   US$ 2,900

 2. Pine Trees at San Clemente, Umbria I, 1998 WATERCOLOR
30 x 21 cm / 12 x 8½ in
   US$ 2,900

 3. Green man Playing Guitar, 1998, gauche
40,5 x 30,5 cm / 16 x 12 in
   US$ 3,900

 4. The Roundabout Lamas Fair St. Andrews, 1999, gauche, 32 x 24 cm/ 12½ x 9½ in
   US$ 2,900

 5. The Green man on f-side Beauty and the Beast, 1994
oil on canvas
63,5 x 76 cm / 25 x 30 in
   US$ 8,900

 6. Portrait of a Scottish Art Student, 1998 oil on canvas
32 x 24 cm  / 12½ x 9½ in
   US$ 5,900


 

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She returned to friends in the south, but an expected job did not materialise and she worked in the Epsom grill, washing dishes and cleaning toilets to try to fund a house and studio at Johnshaven. Friends in Epsom, the Tysons, took her paintings to the Chelsea Art Club exhibitions where she sold a portrait. She had to work such long hours she had no time for any artwork. In 1973 her health broke entirely while working for British Telecom and she had to resign and return to live in Scotland with her mother in a caravan. There a painter and photographer neighbour encouraged her return to her painting and she started to work seriously again though space was so limited. As her health deteriorated she obtained a council flat in St. Andrews in 1978. She had a one person exhibition in the Byre Theatre which got some acclaim and met up with her old Art Master T.S. Halliday who reiewed her work for the Dundee Courier.

 

1987 her initial London exhibition was at the Sayat Nova Gallery in Highgate.

1998 Individual Exhibition, Art Addiction / Palazzo Correr, Venice Italy

 

Recent Exhibitions

1995 -The 2nd International Female Artist's Art Biennial, Art Addiction Stockholm Sweden

1997 -The 4th International Female Artist's Art Biennial, Art Addiction

Stockholm Sweden

1998 -Solo Exhibition Greenock Great Britain

1998 -New Art of England and Canada on the Internet

1998 -"A better World for our Children" Juried International Exhibition, Art Addiction Stockholm Sweden

1998 -The 1st Art Addiction Annual in Venice "Masks in Venice° Palazzo Correr Venezia Italy

1998 -The 1 st International Biennial of ContemporaryArt, Trevi Flash ArtMuseum, Palazzo Lucarini Trevi Perugia Italy

1998 – "The Artist & her paintings", Solo Exhibition, Palazzo Correr, Venezia Italy

1998 -The Art Addiction Autumn Annual in Venice, Palazzo Correr Venezia Italy

1999 - The Art Addiction Spring Annual in Venice, Palazzo Correr Venezia Italy

 

Awards

1995 -Honourable Mention, The 2nd International Female Artist's Art Biennial Sweden

1997 -Certificate of Merit, The 4th International Female Artist's Art Biennial Sweden

1998 -Certificate of Merit, "A better World for our Children" Juried International Exhibition Sweden

1998-Silver Medal, The 1st Art Addiction Annual in Venice "Masks in Venice" Venezia Italy

1998 -Diploma of Excellence, The Art Addiction Autumn Annual in Venice, Palazzo Correr Venezia Italy

1999 -Diploma of Excellence, The Art Addiction Spring Annual in Venice, Palazzo Correr Venezia Italy

 

Member

1999 -Art Addiction International Art Association (AAIAA)

Represented

1998-1999 - Art Diary International

1998-2002 -Art Addiction Internet Art Museum