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A vivid abstract painting in acrylic featuring a bright circular orange/red motif and a fiery vertical yellow streak on a turquoise and navy background. A vivid abstract painting in acrylic featuring a bright circular orange/red motif and a fiery vertical yellow streak on a turquoise and navy background.

John Hoyland, Memories Of Rain, 2009. © Estate Of John Hoyland. Photo Colin Mills

John Hoyland, Memories Of Rain, 2009. © Estate Of John Hoyland. Photo Colin Mills

John Hoyland, Memories of Rain

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Graves Gallery

Born in Sheffield, John Hoyland (1934-2011) was a leading painter of his generation, renowned for his bold use of colour and inventive forms.

 

John Hoyland became well-known for his nonfigurative paintings during the 1960s. He believed painting had ‘the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning’ but he disliked the term ‘abstract’. He had a broad range of influences which he summarised as ‘swimming underwater, volcanoes, waterfalls, rocks, graffiti, stains, damp walls, cracked pavements, puddles, the cosmos inside the human body’.

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Graves Gallery

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Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

A vivid abstract painting in acrylic featuring a bright circular orange/red motif and a fiery vertical yellow streak on a turquoise and navy background.

John Hoyland, Memories of Rain, 2009 © Estate of John Hoyland. Photo Colin Mills

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