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Art John Hoyland

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John Hoyland is often compared to Mark Rothko for the way he uses bold blocks of colour; but the Sheffield-born painter's canvases are lighter and more vibrant than Rothko's, more in line with the work of pop-art contemporaries like Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney and Bridget Riley. This show focuses on the pieces Hoyland produced in the '60s, large-scale works that consist of angular, geometric forms rendered in glowing shades. Hoyland's paintings became more fluid and his gestures more free in subsequent decades, but the exhibition shows how the seminal painter began his illustrious career.

– Lucy Davies

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