Going Under the Radar Part one! Featuring John Hoyland
Its terrible how some artists just fall off your radar, we all know the giants Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, and Claude Monet for example but often we forget to follow the work of the less famous. One example, in my case was the shocking oversight of not following ‘John Hoylands’ work. It was only because my friend Nigel Hunt (student of the welsh greats John Selway and Ernest Zobole) kept telling me too look at John Hoylands new works that I eventually did. To be quite frank I am was floored and inspired at how this artist has produced some of the best work of his career at this stage in his life, looks like he’s going to be like Henri Matisse maturing and maturing right to the end. The power, vibrancy and misleading simplicity of his work (for it has taken him a life time to gain such authority in directing the devious chances that are taken when a artist puts down his fine sable oil brush) the way his colours burn themselves into your soul! How inspiring and a little sickening at the same time, for I see that even in the intoxication of youth or in the wisdom of maturity most of the artistic world will be merely biting at his heels in terms of expressing, emotional power so concisely yet paradoxically playfully. I my eyes John Hoyland is a British giant perhaps destined to become a global giant now where did I leave that £40,000 I want one of his paintings before they get too expensive!!!
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