The Lightbox, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, March – April 2012;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, Shifting Ground, 11 November 2016 – 26 February 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, The St Ives School, 6 April – 23 June 2019;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
Roger Hilton studied at the Slade School of Art. He served in the Second World War but was captured during a raid in Dieppe, France, and spent three years as a prisoner of war. In the early 1950s, Hilton moved on from his early figurative paintings to producing more abstract work. During the late 1950s and 60s, Hilton pursued his wish to ‘reinvent figuration’. Visions of sensual, often sexual, pleasure were a common theme in his work, as seen in this painting. During this time, he started to include figures and landscapes in his work, inspired by his regular visits and eventual move to Cornwall. Hilton said, “Abstraction in itself is nothing. It is only a step towards a new sort of figuration, that is, one which is more true.”
