Hilary Dunne was trained as a solicitor and until recently worked as a commercial property lawyer for a large institution. She has now left the law to pursue painting. Hilary attended courses at Heatherley’s and Central Saint Martin’s Schools of Art. She began exhibiting in 1998, first at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and then at Llewellyn Alexander’s ‘Salon des Refusé’ where she was noted by the Financial Times Art Critic. In October 1998 she had a one women exhibition at the Fashion Gallery, Little Venice and in March 1999 participated in the group exhibition of the Society for Art of the Imagination at the Mall Galleries, London.