Untitled (Textile design no VI)

Hodgkins’ contemporaries often remarked on her sense of colour. Writing about her paintings in 1946, the British critic Eric Newton noted:

She can … make certain colours ‘sing’ as they have never done before – in particular a certain milky purplish-ink, a most unpromising colour: she can make greys and browns look positively rapturous: she can juggle with colour orchestrally.