John Hoyland studied at Sheffield School of Art from 1951 to 1956 and subsequently at the Royal Academy Schools from 1956 to 1960. Hoyland’s first one-man show was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery, London in 1964. This was followed by a string of one-man exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. “Hoyland’s visit to New York in 1964 brought him into contact with painters such as Helen Franktenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitsky and with the critic Clement Greenberg, who showed him the work of Hans Hofmann and unexhibited canvases by Morris Louis. Elements from these American developments, especially from colour-field painting and Post-painterly Abstraction, feature prominently in subsequent canvasses…Despite these influences, however, Hoyland came to reject the American tendency to reductivism, concentrating in later paintings on the approach exemplified by Hofmann and de Stael, with varied and tactile paint surfaces and a disposition of blocks of different colours to create sensations of advancing and receding space” (Adrian Lewis, Grove Dictionary of Art). This latter approach can certainly be seen in the New York Suite screenprints in the following lots.