Alex Hill

Alex Hill was born 1948 in Surrey, England. He has been painting professionally since 1971.

Having been a professional painter for over 50 years, Alex Hill is one of the UK’s leading British Marine Artists. Influenced by the Dutch Masters, his highly regarded work contains elements from his personal experience with the power of the sea.

It was Hill’s love of boats and the sea, gained from holidays spent on the River Fowey estuary in Cornwall that influenced his paintings of creeks, harbours and animated marine scenes.

Once a crew member on the training schooner Sir Winston Churchill and on a Thames sailing barge, Hill gained a first-hand understanding of the intricacy of sailing vessels. 

His love of coastal scenes and old ships have brought him to the South Coast, where he now lives.

Alex Hill paints idyllic British coastal scenes that help the viewer transport themselves into hidden creeks and harbours whilst being surrounded by imposing cliffs and rock formations. He adds drama with the arrival of a traditional sailing boat and incoming crew members with breath-taking reflections across the water.

As a traditional oil artist, Hill creates soft, atmospheric paintings set at either end of the day. He has gained the reputation as an established fine art artist and his paintings can be seen in select galleries in the U.K, and in many international private collections.