All alone in the Museum of Art 1979

Hodgkin made this evocative print, All Alone in the Museum of Art, using lithography. The print is predominantly black and white, but it’s teeming with tonal range. Hodgkin’s textures aren’t just about what you see; they're about what you feel. The marks, those urgent, scratchy lines, evoke a sense of enclosure. I am particularly drawn to the dense cluster of marks towards the right. It's not quite a wall, nor is it a window, but the contrast between these marks and the smooth field to the left of them opens up a world of possibilities. Hodgkin's work reminds us that art is as much about feeling as it is about seeing, and like the paintings of someone like Pierre Bonnard, his use of pattern and colour (or lack of) allows a composition to hover somewhere between the real and the remembered. Hodgkin never spells things out; he invites you to wander, to wonder, and maybe, just maybe, to get delightfully lost.