John Hoyland RA (1934-2011) British Carry Me Home -1984 acrylic on canvas signed, titled & dated 8.

John Hoyland RA (1934-2011) British Carry Me Home -1984 acrylic on canvas signed, titled & dated 8.1.84 on reverse 61 x 51cm (24.02 x 20.08in) Provenance: The Artist's Studio, London Private Collection John Hoyland was born in 1934, in Sheffield and was educated at Sheffield School of Art and Crafts within the junior art department (1946-51) before progressing to Sheffield School of Art and Crafts proper (1951-56), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1956-60). Hoyland's first solo exhibition was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery in 1964 and his first solo museum show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1967 In the 1960s, Hoyland's work was characterised by simple shapes, high-key colour and a flat picture surface. In the 1970s his paintings became more textured. He exhibited at the Waddington Galleries, London throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1960s and 1970s, he showed his paintings in New York City with the Robert Elkon Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. His paintings are closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Hoyland was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of the Royal Academy Schools in 1999