Notes

‘If every form of impressionistic naturalism is predicated on the urgency of representation in such a way as to fix on the canvas a lyrical sensation provoked by an experience of landscape, Hodgkin acts in exactly the opposite manner, painting concrete situations, sedimented in time, and organized according to a mnemonic principle ... What really matters, then, ... is fixing the instant permanently, the moment at which the memory remains fresh, before time has managed to erase its unique flavour. In this sense, it is understandable that Hodgkin’s work often requires lengthy periods of gestation … The reserve of memory obtained by displacing the present allows the artist permanently to fix various states of being in colour’.¹

1. Source: https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/paintings-emotional-site-by-alberto-fiz