Joan Hodes (1925 London, England – 2022 London, England)
WIAC 1970-1978
Painter Joan Hodes trained at the Slade from 1945 to 1948, later spending a year in Paris before receiving additional art training from Oskar Kokoschka in London. Her expressionist style owed much to his teaching with a contrasting palette and broad, bold brush strokes, with Anne Redpath and Joan Eardley influencing her later work. Her earlier work used a variety of different media including pastel, chalk, charcoal, watercolour, pen and ink but she began to work in oil in the 1960s, painting mostly landscapes. Hodes exhibited widely in London and Ipswich and her work is currently in The Royal Free Hospital, the V&A and the British Museum.
Image: Joan Hodes drawing in Snowdonia, 2018. Photograph by Clara Salice
