Cathy's Art Diary

Colourful exhibition at Messum’s Gallery of new work by Rose Hilton. These pictures surrounded you with colour and were a mix of abstracts, still lives, beach scenes and   life studies in the studio. The handout didn’t say anything about the artist so I’ve just looked her up to find she is the widow of the abstract artist Roger Hilton who, although she had trained as an artist, discouraged her work. She took up painting again when he died in 1975 and do get a sense of an artist breaking out and producing these works from a love of painting after a period of suppressing it. I loved a still life of a dressing table in shades of blue and pink and a picture of a cross legged reading figure by a side table next to a mirror in which there is a reflection of her.   Closed on 15 June 2018

Interesting exhibition at Messum’s of work by Rose Hilton. These pictures had a slightly Bloomsbury feel with dissolving, abstracting figures in delightful colours I loved one of a woman sitting reading with a blue mirror in the middle of the picture. Here were also some pictures where the figures are sketchily defined in a patterned, rather abstract background. Closes on 11 November 2016