Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (born 6 August, 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. His early paintings tend to be made up of hard-edged curved forms in a limited number of colours. Around the beginning of the 1970s, his style became more spontaneous, with vaguely recognisable shapes presented in bright colours and bold forms. His works might be called "semi-abstract", and are often compared to Henri Matisse.

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• My (abstracts) are representations, pictures of emotional situations.
• It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid