Prof. Eileen Hogan in conversation with William Feaver

Eileen Hogan’s most recent series of paintings was made in response to the garden created by the late Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little Sparta, near Edinburgh. A recurrent subject is Finlay’s trio of beehives, which Hogan has painted repeatedly, working from different angles and on differing scales. Physically empty but potent with metaphor, the beehives are like small temples, her paintings of them both homage to Finlay and a form of memorial to him. The works are also expressive of Hogan herself, marked by her handling of intense colour, tone, light and shade, and are simultaneously painterly and poetic, restrained and precise.Eileen Hogan has exhibited widely and is currently Research Professor at the University of the Arts London.