Tristram Paul Hillier RA (1905 – 1983) was an English surrealist painter. He was a member of the Unit One group led by Paul Nash.
Tristram Hillier was born in Beijing, China, the youngest of the four children of Edward Guy Hillier, a banker and diplomat, and Ada Everett. In 1906, he ‘came to Europe from Peking for the first time at the age of six months in the company of his mother, brother and [two] sisters, a Japanese ‘Amah’ and two Chinese servants’.
As Roman Catholic, he was educated at Downside School. In 1922 he returned to China to study the language, and visit his sister Madeline and Tuk-San and then until 1924 attended Christ's College, Cambridge. He went to the Slade in 1926, where he studied under Henry Tonks, and then to Paris where he studied for two years under André Lhote, and also at the Atelier Colarossi.
In Paris he met many members of the Surrealist movement; he was particularly influenced by Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst. He lived in France until 1940, but travelled extensively; he remained a surrealist painter throughout his life.
His first one-man show was at the Lefevre Gallery in 1931; he later exhibited mainly at Tooth's Gallery. From 1933 he was a member of the Unit One group led by Paul Nash. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve with the Free French.
After the war he lived in France and in Spain, and then went to live at Yew Tree House, East Pennard in Somerset, England.
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Worthing Gallery in 1960. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1957, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1967.
Hiller married twice. From 1931 to 1935 he was married to Irene Rose Hodgkins, the daughter of a bookmaker, with whom he had twin sons, Jonathan and Benjamin. From 1937 he was married to Leda Millicent Hardcastle, daughter of Sydney Hardcastle, the inventor of the First World War Hardcastle torpedo; they had two daughters, Mary and Anna-Clare. He was a strict and aloof parent, and was given to darkening moods.
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| École communale, circa 1932 |
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| Composition, (Interior), circa 1933 |
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| Marine, circa 1934 |
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| La Route des Alpes, circa 1937 |
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| Le Havre de Grâce, circa 1939 |
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| Derelict Lead Mine, circa 1940 |
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| The War in Somerset, circa 1943 |
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| Cutlers Green, circa 1944 |
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| Harness, circa 1944 |
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| Criquetot - L'Esneval, circa 1945 |
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| Quantoxhead, circa 1946 |
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| Trinity wharf, circa 1946 |
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| Chapel of the Misericordia, circa 1947 |
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| Fishing Boats, circa 1947 |
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| Viseu, Portugal. circa 1947 |
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| Whitstable Oystermen, circa 1948 |
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| Flooded Meadow, circa 1949 |
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| The Green Bottle, circa 1950 |
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| Almería, Spain, circa 1951 |
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| Portishead 'B', circa 1956 |
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| Hulks, circa 1957 |
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| Mill, circa 1957 |
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| Portuguese Farmhouse, circa 1960 |
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| The Fountain and the Ruin, Alpedrinha, circa 1960 |
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| The Inner Pool, Bristol, circa 1960 |
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| Ouguela, Portugal, circa 1960s |
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| Alcañiz, 1961 |
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| Ligneyrac, Corrèze, 1964 |
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| Las lavanderas, 1965 |
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| Trujillo, Spain, 1965 |
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| Beach with an Old Breakwater, 1977 |
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| Une ferme abandonnée en Mayenne, 1981 |
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