Toby Hill

Still Standing, Awkward

These are portraits of the nearly unseen—trees bent, weather-worn spared not by intention, but by disinterest.
Left behind on steep ridges or twisted beyond use, they linger unnoticed.

Until the fog rolls in.

In that quiet vapor, a moment arrives. A silhouette emerges. A misfit is aired—no longer hidden, no longer forgotten.

These paintings hold that instant: the brief recognition of a stray life, quietly claimed.


Toby Hill's painting of a blue tree in the fog.
Toby Hill's painting of a yellow tree in the fog.
Toby Hill's painting of a green tree in the fog.
Toby Hill's painting of a blue tree in the fog.
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