Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. During World War I he joined the Scouting and Sniping Section of the Honourable Artillery Company but by 1917 he was appointed an official war artist and many of his paintings and sketches of the Western Front are now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. After the war, he took up painting professionally and also taught at Hornsey School of Art and Westminster School of Art. His work combined elements of impressionism and surrealism as well as more conventional representations. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Paris Salon and elsewhere.
In 1938, while convalescing from tuberculosis at the King Edward VII sanatorium in Midhurst, he passed his time by drawing nearby objects from his hospital bed, and found the process helpful in aiding his own recovery. In the following year occupational therapy was introduced into the sanatorium and he was invited back to teach drawing and painting to the other patients, many being the first injured soldiers returning from the war. Hill found that the practice of art not only helped take the patients' minds off their illnesses or injuries but also helped to release their mental distress by expressing their anxieties and the scenes they had witnessed during the war. In 1942 Hill first used the term Art Therapy and in 1945 published his ideas in the book Art Versus Illness. He later became president of the British Association of Art Therapists.
He wrote many books on painting theory and techniques, including On Drawing and Painting Trees (1936) and The Pleasures of Painting (1952). In the 1950s and 1960s he presented a BBC children’s television series called Sketch Club. He lived near Midhurst, Sussex.
This group of surreal watercolour and collage works by Adrian Hill appear to have semi-autobiographical references. Some containing cut-out details of his own works, views of familiar places near his Sussex home and pieces of poetry attached to the reverse.
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Watercolour and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
The following typed poem is attached to the reverse:
HAPPY FINALE
Tip-toe
Here I go
High over the sleeping city
Adrian Keith Graham Hill...
Stock code: 922
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
Inscribed on the reverse:
THE LETTER WRITER
… a thousand thanks for your most welcome … it seems simply ages … I simply can’t tell yo...
Stock code: 925
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil, pen and ink and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.00cm
(11.42 x 16.54 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 921
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 919
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.50inch
(73.66 x 107.95 cm)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 913
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil, pen and ink and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.00cm
(11.42 x 16.54 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 915
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.00cm
(11.42 x 16.54 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 918
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 924
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.00cm
(11.42 x 16.54 inches)
This work bears a typed poem attached to the reverse:
Resolve
Beyond the purlieus of puerile delight
Snug in the suburbs of smug sobriety
A...
Stock code: 925
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
The following poem is attached to the reverse:
TROTTEN CHURCH, SUSSEX
May 15, 1952
We were met at the gate
By three grey cats
Arching thei...
Stock code: 917
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil, pen and ink and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 914
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, and collage with traces of pencil, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
Inscribed on the reverse:
Swinging in a bedroom cupboard
Suspended by their metal tags
Hang the Authors jackets and
The Authors bags!
Adri...
Stock code: 920
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Watercolour, pencil and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.00cm
(11.42 x 16.54 inches)
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was born in Charlton, London and educated at Dulwich College. He studied art at the St John’s Wood School of Art and at...
Stock code: 916
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Watercolour, pencil, pen and ink and collage, unframed
29.00
x 42.50cm
(11.42 x 16.73 inches)
The following typed poem is attached to the reverse:
THOUGHTS AT DAWN
Snow has no smell
That I am aware of
Heat has no taste
As far as I k...
Stock code: 923
Price:
gbp 350.00 (Pound Sterling)
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