I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Early life
Hodgkin a cousin of the English still life painter Eliot Hodgkin (1905–87) was educated at Eton College and then at Bryanston School in Dorset. His prints are hand-painted etchings and he has worked with the same master printer (Jack Shirreff at 107 Workshop) and print publiHoward Hodgkinr (Alan Cristea Gallery) for the last 25 years. B.

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (born 6 August 1932) is a British painter and printmaker.