Patrick Caulfield

Patrick Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art in 1956, and at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1963, where his fellow pupils included David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj. After he left, he returned to Chelsea as a teacher. In 1964, he exhibited at the New Generation show at London's Whitechapel Gallery, which resulted in him being associated with pop art. His work is characterised by a reductive, streamlined use of line and the depiction of banal, everyday objects saturated in colour. Caulfield consistently used screenprint for his graphic work following his introduction to the medium by Richard Hamilton and Chris Prater in 1964. The deceptive simplicity of his images, perfectly matched by the aesthetic capacities of the process, is clear throughout the various phases of his printmaking career. Those who have followed his style include Michael Craig-Martin and latterly Julian Opie.