1. John Hoyland RA was a London-based British artist.
12 Facts About John Hoyland
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John Hoyland was one of the country's leading abstract painters.
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In 1953, John Hoyland went abroad for the first time, hitch-hiking with a friend to southern France.
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The 1960s were a crucial decade for John Hoyland starting in 1960 with the first of 3 annual London shows featuring large abstract pictures at least 30 feet square aimed at filling the viewers field of vision and dubbed as Situation ; it was in these years that he found his voice as an artist.
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John Hoyland exhibited at the Waddington Galleries, London throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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John Hoyland's paintings are closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
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John Hoyland disliked the 'abstract' painter label, describing himself simply as 'a painter'.
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In 1982, he won the John Hoyland Moores Painting Prize and in 1998 the Royal Academy's Wollaston Award.
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John Hoyland's works are held in many public and private collections including the Tate and Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection.
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John Hoyland was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in 1999.
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John Hoyland died 31 July 2011 aged 76, of complications following heart surgery undertaken in 2008.
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John Hoyland was survived by his wife Beverley Heath Hoyland and his son Jeremy, from his first marriage to Airi Karakainen.