Art, Oi Yoi Yoi

Came across the story of Rose Hilton, the artist who put her career on hold to support her husband, but gained recognition after his death. The daughter of a rather strict family who believed girls should stay at home until they married. She secretly applied to the Royal College of Art and was accepted with a full scholarship. Her parents were horrified and would not let her go. Her brother took her side and told them he would not see them ever again if they did not let her go. He was obviously quite persuasive and they let her go. 

Rose - Relaxed

Exceptional gifted painter she excelled and was showing and selling her work very early in her career. She met her future husband Roger Hilton, who put a condition on them getting married, only he would paint. 

Roger Hilton CBE was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. She decided to start painting in secret after their two children were older, the inevitable happened and he found out. He was very angry and she decided to teach him a lesson, to show him what real painting was all about. She challenged him to paint her dancing naked on their balcony. She was a very beautiful woman, by all accounts and the balcony faced the park below. On the day there as a hay stack on fire in the park below and he painted her dancing and shouting Oi Yoi Yoi, with the backdrop of a burning haystack. Must of been quite a distraction for the firemen below.

Roger - Oi Yoi Yoi

He called that painting Oi Yoi Yoi, I can understand why. This turned out to be one of his best work and after that he encouraged her to paint and also listened to her ideas. They both were into painting nudes in various shapes, positions and stages of undress. Must say the paintings all look a little out of focus but maybe this was just the type of work they did. Her work has been described as abstract, with an erotic charge. Really! 

I do not know much about painting, so will hold off judging their work but do feel a little more attention to detail would have made the paintings more appealing to my untrained eye.