Patrick Caulfield

Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005) was an English painter and printmaker with an unmistakeable style: vibrant, graphic, pared back and precise. 

From the 1960s, Caulfield became known for paintings of modern life that reinvigorated traditional artistic genres such as the still life. He came to prominence  after studying at the Royal College of Art where fellow students included David Hockney. Caulfield became associated with Pop Art, but he resisted the label throughout his career, preferring to see himself as a ‘formal artist’ and an inheritor of painting traditions from modern masters such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger who influenced his composition and choice of subject matter.