Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 August 1932
back-when painting made
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
technique surface century
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
gallery soothing copies
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
painting endangered-species painter
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
looks painting surprising
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
activity lightly
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.