In the decade before his death in 2011, John Hoyland began to
reckon with mortality. Confronting his own demise, he painted
elegies to departed artist friends and tributes to illustrious
artistic forebears. Imagery of the void looms large, but it is a
void faced with defiance and vitality, less a rumination on the end
than a celebration of life. This publication explores the paintings
Hoyland made in this decade, including his final series, the
Mysteries. Essays by Natalie Adamson, David Anfam, Matthew Collings
and Mel Gooding offer a rich and multifaceted account of a complex
body of work. Hoyland’s veneration of Vincent van Gogh, his
connections to J.M.W. Turner, the use of black as a colour, his
deployment of risk and attempts to subvert his own taste, and his
development of the cosmic visual language of the Abstract
Expressionists are all discussed. Richly illustrated, the book
extends our understanding of Hoyland’s late work within the story
of modern painting as a whole.
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