Victoria Hilliard is an artist who for over 25 years in Cornwall has established a huge following. Her 3 dimensional, porcelain, relief style is her most familiar medium, exploring botanical themes. In recent years Victoria has developed her portraits, still lives and landscapes using oils pastels and acrylics. Many of these are reproduced in Giclee prints.

She has exhibited and had solo shows both internationally as well as locally.

This website will give the viewer an indication of her work, but cannot match the work live and in situ. All her venues are listed and updated on this site regularly.

About the development of my ceramic work
I have developed my kiln fired relief ceramic pictures over the past 25 years. In that time I have moved around England but always came back to my native Cornwall. I have lived in Penwith for 15 years. I love 2 dimensional painting and drawing but I always get pulled back into working the clay in to the image I want to present. Clay has become my medium, a tool, as oils are to a painter.

It can take years sometimes for ideas to take root and ferment, and then finally come out as a finished work. My head never stops collecting, developing, absorbing colours or sketching ideas. I have far more ideas than I can produce, which is frustrating. Much of my time is taken up in the organising, delivering, and selling the work. I also have a family that take time, so my actual studio time is tight.

I show in selected galleries all around the southwest at the moment. I have in the past shown a lot in London and even New York, But for now I get much pleasure from being part of Artspace, an artist led co-operative in St Ives. I am loving it's localness and busy-ness. I enjoy chatting with the visitors; they always have some interesting opinion to share. And it breaks the 'aloness' of being in the studio.

My work is informed by a cocktail of; horticultural experience in Cornwall and Scilly, training in Graphics and Fine Art, an extensive family who all seem to be creative in one way or an other, parents who were market gardeners and potters, brilliant teachers, the earth and all the Penwithian life around me.