Explore: Tristram Hillier

(1905 - 1983)

Tristram Hillier was born in Peking and educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before studying at the Slade School of Art and the Westminster School of Art in London. Throughout his life he travelled in Europe, living for periods in France and Italy. He was a member of the Unit One group of artists, along with Paul Nash and Edward Wadsworth, whose work had a great influence on him.