Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA is one of Britain’s foremost colourists. ‘My art is not about politics,’ he once said. ‘It’s about paint — the way that colour washes, spreads, bleeds and runs across the canvas, and the way that paint-colour emits light.’

Over the course of his six-decade career, divided between London and New York, Bowling has moved from figuration to abstraction, experimented with the materiality of paint, colour and geometry, and explored autobiographical, symbolic and socio-political concerns on canvas. He’s also been elected to the Royal Academy, enjoyed solo shows around the world and been knighted by the Queen.

Dan and Them was produced shortly after the completion of his celebrated Map Paintings in 1972. Ablaze with brilliant layers of magenta, pink and orange, it features repeated imagery of Bowling’s eldest son Dan, who died suddenly in 2001. It is a beautiful example of his works from the early 70s: still abstract but now marked with personal memories.

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