Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) was one of Britain's greatest colourists and contemporary abstract painters. He won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1985. Known for using saturated colours and expressive brush strokes and his signature repertoire of stippled dots, splotches, commas, rainfall-like-drips and long, broad brushstrokes, which conjure an illusion of painterly spontaneity. He painted directly onto the back of old picture frames or salvaged wood. These pictures were, however, the fruits of intense, solitary labour, and often completed over a period of many years.