I was only able to go briefly to the opening of Eileen Hogan’s exhibition at Browse and Darby tonight. I am familiar with some of the work, not least because her monumental paintings of beehives have been shown in the Summer Exhibition and in a previous exhibition at the Fleming Collection. What I was particularly impressed by, both this evening and seeing the work before, was the painting of clothes in her wardrobe, called Self-portrait through wardrobe, which are a hybrid between a meditation on the meaning of clothes, their associations, and pure painting of fabric and colour.
Following your piece on Leonard Rosoman, it is so fitting that Eileen Hogan now works in Leonard’s studio. She is a painter whose calm and haunting images of snow covered London garden squares are regularly exhibited in Summer Exhibitions and are now on show at Browse and Darby. Why she has not been elected an RA is a mystery to her many admirers.