About

“If I’m doing it right, I disappear into it entirely. By the time I leave, I don’t know who’s being painted. Them, or me.”

A chance encounter with the work of Rembrandt van Rijn while homeless was the moment Hill decided he would become a painter. Drawing from his own experiences of chronic illness, trauma, and homelessness, Hill situates his practice at the intersection of personal history, social critique, and historical dialogue.

Through his project 'Ordinary', Hill creates portrait paintings as vignettes of people frequently seen through the lens of diagnoses or social marginalisation, reclaiming their stories from reductive narratives. His work uses the visual language of 17th-century genre painting, translating classical techniques into digital media to assert a contemporary social and moral framework, representing marginalised people with dignity and depth.

Unable to use oil paints due to health constraints, Hill accessed painting through digital tools, developing his own medium that captures the artist’s brushstrokes in layers of process, allowing viewers to engage with each work as they would with a traditional painting