1 April – 15 May 2022 This debut show with Hales focuses on paintings from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s — a key period in Hoyland’s oeuvre, marking a departure from pure abstraction, allowing the outside world to enter his art. Flames Like Rainbows exhibits paintings greatly influenced by …
Read more >This final series of paintings celebrate life in the face of death. Paying homage to his artistic heroes such as Vincent Van Gogh, as well as commemorating friends and contemporaries like Patrick Caulfield and Terry Frost, these vital works powerfully embody Hoyland’s commitment to life and love. Watch Sam Cornish …
Read more >John Hoyland: The Last Paintings, The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, closes at the 10th of October.
Read more >13 October – 14 November 2021 Dramatic prints from a dynamic period of Hoyland’s work. The exhibition explores how Hoyland drew inspiration from the world around him and how print-making allowed a restless and fast-moving approach to the creation and re-creation of images. Includes rare works, and overpainted prints. 13 …
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 >Essay accompanying an exhibition of Hofmann’s paintings at Tate Gallery, curated by Hoyland. I first saw the paintings of Hans Hofmann in 1964 at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Clement Greenberg the American critic had kindly offered to show Paul Huxley and me around some of the New York …
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