john hoyland

Born in Sheffield in 1934, Hoyland attended Junior College of Art before embarking on four years of study at the Royal Academy. His frequent trips to America during the 1970’s resulted in friendships with distinguished writers and painters such as, Clement Greenberg, Kenneth Noland and Robert Motherwell. It was in New York that the spirit, if not the influence of Hans Hoffman entered his work, and like him Hoyland has been a highly regarded and influential teacher throughout his life. Hoyland’s extraordinary vision has led him to continually experience the Earth’s more exotic locations manifesting into a startling variety of canvases that appeal to all the senses. Retrospectives at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967 and the Serpentine Gallery in 1979, a monograph in 1990 combined with an illustrious exhibiting career both in Britain and abroad spanning four decades, have revealed his vibrant, poetic and idiosyncratic images as perhaps the most adventurous British Painter of his era.