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The boy who never left the trees
Joseph Hillier
Asgard Green
Reflecting on Watlington’s place in the Chiltern landscape, the artist Joseph Hillier says:
“When I’ve met people who are from the town or who have moved here they’ve all had this connection to the place which is about the landscape and the nature which surrounds the town. I wanted to reflect the fact that people have been drawn here and decided to stay because of its unique location and landscape.”
The Boy Who Never Left the Trees is the title of a poem by a local poet about a friend who loved Watlington Hill, who would often be found in the woods and how his heart would always be in that place.
About Joseph Hillier
Joseph Hillier is a British Artist, raised in Cornwall who has lived and worked in London, New Orleans and now Northumberland. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has created over twenty public works. His work is an exploration of our humanity, relative to the geometry and constructs of contemporary culture. Hiller re-makes the human body in various materials and via ancient and recent advances in technology, framing his figurative works in the current culture of things.