Sir Howard Hodgkin was one of Britain's most important and loved artists of the Twentieth Century.  Although his paintings have long been exhibited and collected around the world it is his work as a printmaker which has drawn a wider popular audience and equal critical acclaim.

His painterly work is characterised by a freedom from the constraints of the picture frame’s edge: often in small scale and incorporating into the image re-used frames. Using vibrant, deep colour and exuberant brushwork - Hodgkin worked to recreate and distil a feeling of place or event or emotion, or just an instance. Hodgkin has been called an heir to L’intimisme, and his self-avowed love of Vuillard and Bonnard is evidence of this.

Resolutely abstract once he arrived at his mature form, intense emotion coupled with broad, virtuosic brush work and set him apart from the prevailing fashions and attitudes in art of his time, setting him a place quite unique in the history of British painters.

Further information can be found at the artist’s official website: www.howard-hodgkin.com