Biography
Francis Hoyland (b. Selly Oak, Birmingham, UK 1930) studied painting at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1946-9) and the Slade School of Fine Art (1949-50). He won the Abbey Minor scholarship to visit Italy in 1951 and later taught at the West of England College of Art, Bristol (1954-9); Chelsea School of Art (1960-6); and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1966-92) and for the Prince's Trust (2000). He wrote Painting (1966), Alive to Paint and Painter's Diary (both published in 1997). Hoyland exhibited with the Artists' International Association and Royal West of England Academy. He had solo shows at Galerie de Seine (1956), Beaux Arts Gallery (1960 &1961); a retrospective at the South London Gallery (1969); Diptychs of the Life of Christ were exhibited at Chichester and Soutwark Cathedrals (1972); The Forgotten Fifties, which toured from Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (1984), and participated in Camberwell Artists of the 40s and 50s, Belgrave Gallery (1988). Other exhibitions included at Sweet Waters Gallery, London (1990), Chappel Galleries, Colchester (2002), and North Light Gallery, Huddersfield (2004). In 2003 91 of Hoyland's etchings of the Life of Christ were shown at the British Museum.
