Hoyland, John (1934-2011)
Creator details
- Name
- Hoyland, John (1934-2011)
- Nationality
- English
- Biography
- b.1934- 2011<br /> John Hoyland is an English painter and printmaker. He trained at Sheffield College of Art (1951-56) and the Royal Academy Schools (1956-60). Under the influence of Nicholas de Stael he began by 1954 to paint Sheffield landscapes and abstractions from still-life subjects. His devotion to colour began with experiments at a Scarborough summer school where tuition was provided by Victor Pasmore, Tom Hudson and Harry Thubron. At the Situation exhibitions of 1960-61 he showed some of his earliest fully abstract paintings such as Situation, 1960 in which he used bands of colour to explore perceptual effects such as the relationship of image to background or to create the illusion of buckling the picture-plane. This geometric character soon gave way to sinuous lines enclosing discs of colour and eventually to a freer and more fluid application of paint.
