John Hoyland

John Hoyland was one of the most inventive and dynamic abstract painters of the post-war modern period in Britain. Over the course of his fifty year career his art and attitudes constantly evolved.

In 1964, Hoyland travelled to New York where he met Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko, both of whom had a lasting impact on his work, although Hoyland preferred not to be known as an abstract painter. He felt it implied some kind of premeditation in his process.

John Hoyland explored many forms of printmaking, including lithographs, screenprints, aquatints and woodblocks. He viewed printmaking as a more fully independent activity, and adopted an improvised and experimental attitude to the process.