Apollo Magazine
Martin Gayford interviews painter Wayne Thiebaud on the occasion of Thiebaud's recent exhibiton at White Cube, London. Thiebaud remarks: "‘I’d been working in food, washing dishes. That was my environment. I remember seeing pies laid out, processed food that I’d worked on, so I started painting these triangles and turning them into pies. I thought,
Apollo Magazine
Martin Gayford's 2010 profile of painter Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017), republished to mark the artist's passing this week at age 84. Gayford notes that "[Hodgkin's] work is deeply paradoxical. For one thing, it frequently looks abstract at first and even second glance, but it is actually figurative and rooted in his experience... Hodgkin is an intensely
The Spectator
Martin Gayford reviews Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, on view through February 19, 2017. Gayford observes: "Few artists made more abrupt stylistic swerves. Consequently, [Pasmore's] career was a thesaurus of all the possibilities open to a 20th-century painter, from dingy social realism to millenarian modernism."