SONIA G HILL
ARTIST
Sonia was born in London. Her mother was a nurse and her father, John Elfred England moved to Oxfordshire from the USA. The family liced in Benson, Bicester and Henley.
Sonia was awarded a grant to study at the Maidenhead Art College. She then moved to Zambia where she worked as a nurse and modelled hats and jewellery.
On returning to England, Sonia lived in Maidenhead working as an Architectural Assistant as a Colour Artist. She moved to London where she took contract work for 15 years. She lived in Kensington High Street in a flat above the playwright Peter Shaffer of Amadeus and Equus fame.
Modelling hats in Zambia
Sonia met Major G. M. Clarke of the Ministry of Defence and the couple moved to Hampton, Middlesex.
Major Clarke
In 1993 two of Sonia's pictures were hung at the Royal Acadamy Summer Exhibition. Both were sold.
Jack the Lad
Two Ladies
This portrait of Quentin Crisp was hung at the Royal Acadamy Summer Exhibition and was sold through the RA in 2000.
Weekends were spent exercising Polo horses from the Billy Walsh stables in Richmond Park.
Major Clarke died in 1997.
Sonia has travelled widely through Europe and Africa. She sings 1940s and 50s songs at a private club in Covent Garden.