"My love of colour and shape developed early. My first remembered dream was of bright orange pumpkins!
With parents who travelled widely, I was inspired by the many postcards they sent home - postcards that were like tiny windows into unfamiliar worlds, embellished with beautiful jewel-like postage stamps from exotic places. Places I would later visit and from which I would draw inspiration, experiencing the Sol Y Sombra of life- sun and shadow. You cannot value one without the other." - Trish
Trish Hill studied in Melbourne, as a fine artist. Studying Drawing at Prahran C.A.E., learning formal practices and technique under Pam Hallandal, then later at Preston Institute of Technology under the tutelage of Danny Moynihan - Printmaker, Julie Irving - Painter and other inspirational, influential and practising artists of the time. From here Trish graduated, majoring in printmaking and drawing.
Throughout her creative career, Trish has worked largely as an illustrator, working on a diverse range of commissions from designing wrapping paper and cards, progressing to illustrating for major advertising agencies, design studios and publishers. Children's book illustrating soon became her passion and her living. She has worked on many, many books for children, each time using a different style and medium - from pen and ink, watercolour, gouache, pastel and crayon, to collage and scraper board. Trish is published in Australia and the USA. Her books include "What Makes a Bird a Bird?" by May Garelick, "The Old Man's Mitten" retold by Yvonne Pollock, "Freeing Billy" by Meredith Costain and her favourite "Somewhere" by Jane Baskwill. She has worked on numerous literacy programmes including chapter books for reluctant readers, anthologies, text books and picture books for pre-school.
Trish has since left all this behind and solely concentrates on her fine art practice. Her background in design and illustration informs her practice, with sensitive detailed drawings, collages, pen and ink washes - to bold graphic and painterly impressions of landscape, animals, birds and still life. Her collections include You Beaut Fruit, Murtnaghurt Lagoon, Big Birds, Small Birds, Barre Warre N'Yallock and the Pelicans and Cockatoos series.
The view from Trish's studio of the Barwon River, is an ongoing source of inspiration, observation and contemplation.