Our founder and auctioneer Mark Hill is best known for being an expert on the BBC 'Antiques Roadshow' and the BBC 'Antiques Road Trip', and has also co-presented four series on antiques and collecting for BBC2. His career has been dedicated to antiques, modern design and the decorative arts. He has worked for Bonhams and Sotheby's, and was a major force behind the introduction of live online bidding in 2001. He is also a respected author, publisher, lecturer, and a Freeman of the City of London.
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Expressions Of The Soul: The Studio Of Nadira Azzouz
Mark Hill Auctions is delighted to announce the auction of the contents of the studio of the Iraqi born abstract artist Nadira Azzouz. Over 340 paintings will be available, most dating from later in her life and all demonstrating remarkable vivacity, energy and colour. All are highly decorative and appealing, and domestically sized, and their titles suggest how the artist expressed her inner most thoughts and love for her native Middle East and its centuries long heritage of decorative and fine arts.
Tremendous Tunbridgeware
People have visited the historic Pantiles for over four centuries. When they did, they may have bought a souvenir of their trip - a talisman to revive memories made, and to remind of health restored. The Victorians were greatly sentimental, and that’s something that’s still with us today, especially in a world that’s never moved faster. The talisman a Georgian or Victorian visitor would have bought was a piece of Tunbridge ware.
Mark Hill Auctions Arrives!
Variety truly is the spice of life. In late 2022, I was delighted to be asked by my Antiques Roadshow friend Eric Knowles to join the roster of dealers at The Pantiles Arcade housed in the Corn Exchange in the heart of the historic Pantiles. I’m no stranger to having a shop, but my roots are in the auction world, where I started in the mid-90s working for Bonhams and then Sotheby’s....
