When we asked Damien Hirst if he would discuss his ‘return to painting’, he suggested a conversation with leading abstract artist John Hoyland RA. As both artists prepared for new London shows in Autumn 2009, they met in John Hoyland’s studio. Damien Hirst, born in 1965, is known for the …
Read more >John Hoyland has been called Europe’s answer to Mark Rothko. On a visit to his London studio, Esther Walker discovers why the celebrated painter has turned to Robert Fisk of The Independent for inspiration in his latest artworks. “I borrow anything from anything,” says the artist John Hoyland. “I’ll borrow …
Read more >John Hoyland emerged as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters in the Sixties, exhibiting with both the influential Situation group in 1960 and the New Generation artists – along with Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney and Bridget Riley – at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1964. Later that year, he went …
Read more >This small but telling retrospective at Tate St Ives is one of a number of Hoyland exhibitions timed to coincide or overlap this summer. There have already been a couple of commercial shows of recent and older work in London, and another has just opened at the Lemon Street Gallery …
Read more >The painter John Hoyland is now in his seventies, but his breathtaking giant canvases still radiate strength and vitality. Howard Jacobson spends time with him in his studio The floor of John Hoyland’s studio resembles a jungle undergrowth after a storm – a wonder of wild colour, fertility and iridescence, …
Read more >It has been a long time coming, but ‘John Hoyland’ at the Royal Academy (until October 31; supported by Donald and Jeanne Kahn) is well worth the wait. To reduce the 40-year career of our most flamboyant non-figurative painter – he insists on ‘non-figurative’ in preference to ‘abstract’ – to 22 …
Read more >John Hoyland harks back to a time when painters were action men, and painting was king. Gordon Burn finds that the forgotten revolutionary of British art is pretty salty about his peers – and braced for a kicking when his own work goes on show next week. ‘Solitary studio practice’ …
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