Born in Sheffield in 1934, Hoyland attended Junior College of Art before embarking on four years of study at the Royal Academy. His frequent trips to America during the 1970’s resulted in friendships with distinguished writers and painters such as, Clement Greenberg, Kenneth Noland and Robert Motherwell. It was in New York that the spirit, if not the influence of Hans Hoffman entered his work, and like him Hoyland has been a highly regarded and influential teacher throughout his life.

Hoyland’s extraordinary vision has led him to continually experience the Earth’s more exotic locations manifesting into a startling variety of canvases that appeal to all the senses. Retrospectives at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967 and the Serpentine Gallery in 1979, a monograph in 1990 combined with an illustrious exhibiting career both in Britain and abroad spanning four decades, have revealed his vibrant, poetic and idiosyncratic images as perhaps the most adventurous British Painter of his era.

John Hoyland
Flying Life
24 x 20 inches
Acrylic on canvas

John Hoyland
Flower Sky
18 x 14 inches
Acrylic on canvas

John Hoyland
Man and Bird
12 x 16 inches
Acrylic on canvas

John Hoyland
Transient Visitor
12 x 10 inches
Acrylic on canvas

John Hoyland
'Blessed by the Sun'
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 inches
£1800

John Hoyland
'Land of Wish and Dreams'
Oil on canvas
28 x 24 inches
£4700

John Hoyland
Vincent’s Crows
acrylic on cotton duck
24 x 18 inches
£6760

John Hoyland
Guiding Spirit
oil on canvas
20 x 26cm
£5385

John Hoyland
Moonshadow
oil on canvas
28 x 30 inches
£5875

John Hoyland
Land of Wishes
Oil on Canvas
30 x 16 inches
£6275

John Hoyland
Place of Miracles
acrylic on cotton duck
20 x 30 inches
£7850

John Hoyland
Angel and Sea
acrylic on cotton duck
30 x 24 inches
£8500

John Hoyland
Monkey Jump 2002
Oil on Canvas
60 x 50 inches
£15,000

John Hoyland
'Past Voices'
Oil on canvas
35 x 28 inches
£8700

John Hoyland
Street Life Havana 2002
Oil on Canvas
60 x 50 inches
£15,000

John Hoyland
Waiting
oil on canvas
19 x 15.5 inches
£5875

John Hoyland
'Mayday Shadow'
Oil on canvas
70 x 50 inches
£17,500