Cristea Roberts’ presents ‘ remarkable exhibition Memories: Etel Adnan & Howard Hodgkin, Portraiture in Print. The exhibition closes soon and shouldn’t be missed. The show is an exploration of colour and dynamic gestural strokes.

Two of the most pioneering artists in art history, Etel Adnan and Howard Hodgkin’s work navigate between abstraction and representation, encapsulating memories of landscapes, places or people, expressed through layers of vibrant colours.

This two person exhibition features 35 prints made over the past twenty years, which come from the Adnan and Hodgkin estates. This includes a selection of some of the final works ever made by the artists.

Adnan’s art is informed by the different languages and cultures she lived with and encountered. A poet and a painter, she was born in Beirut, Lebanon, before moving to Paris and then to California to study and teach. In the 1970s she lived near Mount Tamalpais in California. There the view of the mountains out of her window became a repeated source of inspiration. Abstract renderings of the mountain continued to find their way into her work years later; mountains looming over the landscape are depicted in Montagnes (2020), and the changing light of a similar scene is captured in Dans le mystère de la nature (2018).

Memory and intimacy were central to the art of renowned painter and printmaker Howard Hodgkin. Prints by the artist spanning the late 1990s to his final months, trace the development of his mark making which was characterised by a vibrant and evocative colour palette. Hodgkin continually explored the possibilities of printmaking throughout his career. Drawing on his personal experiences, he worked across a number of techniques, and experimented with scale, to create them anew.