Lillias August studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London followed by a postgraduate course in The History of Art and Design. She has exhibited her work widely and received several awards, most recently at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) for both her landscape and her architectural work. She was elected a member of the RI in 2006.

From 2000 – 2005 Lillias was project artist for St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds during the Suffolk Cathedral Millennium Project. ‘Cross’, a series of paintings that grew out of the project, toured to Ely, Peterborough and Lincoln Cathedrals and to Southwell Minster with grants from, amongst others, Arts Council England East and East Midlands (2005 – 6).

2011 Artists and Illustrators magazine, June 2011 - talking techniques
2010  , May issue - featured artist 'In Conversation' with Julian Halsby
   L'Art de L'Aquarelle, December issue - featured artists (copyright Diverti Editions and
  reproduced with kind permission)
 

2000- 2011 - annual exhibtion  Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) Mall galleries, London
  PRIZEWINNER in 2002, 2005, 2006 & 2010
2000 - 2004,
2006 - 2008 - annual exhibtion  'Artworks' at Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds
2001- 2009 - annual exhibtion    The Hunter Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk

2011  Edmund Gallery, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
   Assembly House Art Show 2011, Norwich
  South Suffolk Show
 
2010  Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, 'A-Z of Still Life'
  Art in the Barn, Dove Barn, Groton, Suffolk
  Watercolour Academy, Mall Galleries, London
  Suffolk showcase, Smiths Row, Bury st Edmunds, Suffolk
   Gallery Lefort Fine Art, Bath, RI exhibition
    Gallery Highwaymans, Risby, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

2009  Art at the Park, Croxton, Norfolk
  Harleston Gallery, Harleston, Norfolk
  Alresford Gallery, Alresford, Winchester, Hampshire
  High Watermark, RWS & RI, Bankside and Mall galleries, London
  Threadneedle Prize, Mall galleries, London
  'Visions of Watercolour Today', Contemporary German - English Painters in Watercolour
  Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany
  The Russell Gallery, Putney, London

2008  Langham Fine Art, Langham, Suffolk
  Suffolk Showcase 08, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
    Harleston Gallery, Harleston, Norfolk
  Wildwood gallery, Bury St Edmunds

2007  Langham Fine Art, Langham, Suffolk.
  Art at the Park, Croxton, Norfolk.

2006  Retrospective '06 - mixed exhibition, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.
  Langham Fine Art, Langham, Suffolk.
  Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
  Art at Dove Barn, Groton, Suffolk

2000 – 2005  Project artist for St Edmundsbury Cathedral during the Suffolk Cathedral
  Millennium Project which includes the completion of the central Tower.

2005 – 2006 ‘Cross’ series tour to Ely, Peterborough and Lincoln Cathedrals and Southwell Minster.

2005  'Millennium Tower' - St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Suffolk.
  Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds

2003,04  Art Works in Mental Health - National Touring Exhibition

2004   Art Auction East, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds.
  The Wall Gallery, Ely

2003   Art Trail, Bury St. Edmunds Festival, Suffolk.
  Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

2002  Royal Watercolour Society (RWS), Bankside Gallery, London.
  'Work in Progress', Cathedral Cloister during Bury St Edmunds Festival
 
2001  Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, London.
  'Cross Country', Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, and Niederrheinisches
  Museum, Kevelaer, Germany.

2000  The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
  'This Flat Earth', University and Firstsite Galleries, Colchester, Essex.
  The Laing Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.

1999  Cathedral Cloister Gallery, Bury Festival, Bury St. Edmunds

1998  The Laing Exhibition, Mall Galleries (PRIZEWINNER).
  'On the Border', Wolsey Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.