Rose Hilton, née Phipps (15 August 1931 – 19 March 2019)[1] was a British painter living in Cornwall.
[3] She won the Life Drawing and Painting prize as well as the Abbey Minor Scholarship to Rome.
[4] Upon her return to London, she began teaching art, and, in the late 1950s met her future husband, the leading abstract artist Roger Hilton.
In 1977 she had her first solo show at Newlyn Art Gallery, and her Post-Impressionist, figurative paintings have achieved wide popularity.
Her work is often compared to that of the French Nabi painter, Pierre Bonnard and is noticeably influenced by that of Henri Matisse.