The Martello Tower, Folkestone, Kent
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Martello Tower, Folkestone, Kent is a 1940 watercolor by Adrian Hill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a small hill with a winding road cutting through it. At the top sits a round stone tower, and below are a few houses and trees. The watercolor uses soft greens, browns, and blues, with a calm waterway running along the right side. The tower looks like an old fort, built to defend the coast. It’s simple but stands out against the rolling landscape. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Adrian Hill, dated 1940, depicts the Martello Tower at Folkestone, Kent. The tower appears as a dark silhouette against a calm sea, with Folkestone Harbour visible to the right and allotments on the leeward side of the promontory. The work was produced for the Recording Britain project, a scheme initiated in 1940 by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime to document the British landscape during the Second World War. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the project aimed to record places and buildings perceived as part of national…
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Adrian Keith Graham Hill was a British artist, writer, art therapist, educator, and broadcaster.
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