"[7] Hoyland visited again in 1957 with David Smith when he was at the Royal Academy, and succumbed to what he referred to as "the Gauguin syndrome", a lifelong romance with travel and the south.

[7] The 1960s were a crucial decade for Hoyland starting in 1960 with the first of 3 annual London shows featuring large abstract pictures at least 30 feet square aimed at filling the viewers field of vision and dubbed as Situation (short for '' Situation in London now''); it was in these years that he found his voice as an artist.

There he met Robert Motherwell, with whom he was to become great friends, also Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and visited their studios.

[2] In the 1960s, Hoyland's work was characterised by simple shapes, high-key colour and a flat picture surface.

[17] In September 2010, Hoyland and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B.

He was survived by his wife Beverley Heath Hoyland and his son Jeremy, from his first marriage to Airi Karakainen.