H A R R I E T - M E N A - H I L L

1966
born London
1984-85
Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London - Foundation
1986-89
Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London -
BA Hons - Painting
1986
Stage Painter 'Run to Earth' - London Contemporary Dance Theatre

Collections

The Government Art Collection; St John's College, Oxford; Lord Gowrie; FIAR International; The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation

“ Harriet Mena Hill makes delicate paintings of towers, arcades and interiors, field patterns and mazy structures that are pure invention yet wonderfully credible. They stand close in spirit to the metaphysical cities of de Chirico, and the endlessly ascending steps of Escher, but more romantic, less contrary and disturbing. But they too are possessed of a quality of dream. She paints
figures into these strange imagined spaces as she is working to give them scale, only to remove them at the last - and it is perhaps this sense of a human presence lately there, moved just out of sight, waiting and watching, that gives the paintings their gently haunted quality. And the less overtly decorative and concerned with superficial pattern, the more their complication emerges as a function of the pictorial structure itself, the better they are.”

William Packer: Financial Times, 22 February 2000

 

Untitled, 2007 oil on gesso 20 x 20cm