Background
She was born at Cox"s Creek, Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest child of Charles Hill, a hatter, and his wife, Eliza Ann Hulbert.
She was born at Cox"s Creek, Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest child of Charles Hill, a hatter, and his wife, Eliza Ann Hulbert.
Hill attended primary school but did not attend secondary school.
She went directly to the Wellington School of Design to study art in 1886. After time as a pupil of this school she returned as a teacher remaining at the school until 1897. During her time at the Wellington School of Design she met and was heavily influenced by the Scottish artist James M. Nairn.
He introduced her to the contemporary art movements of Europe and, in particular, impressionism.
Hill exhibited in Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington painting mainly portraits and still lifes including flowers. Gardening was another favourite activity.
She took private pupils and taught art at Archerfield College from 1922–1925. She illustrated Barbara Douglas"s Pictures in a New Zealand Garden (1921) and with Alfred Henry O"Keeffe she opened the Barn Studio in the early 1920s.
In 1927–1928 she visited both the United States and Tahiti and in 1930 went to Europe.
Based in London, she painted with Sydney Lough Thompson at Concarneau, Brittany, and in 1931/32 spent seven months in Capri. She died in East Grinstead, West Sussex on 18 November 1956. Her son John McIndoe was also an artist, and later ran the family printing firm.
