Appreciation: Howard Hodgkin, 1932-2017

The Observer writer and critic remembers two emotional encounters with the great British painter, who died last weekHoward Hodgkin always used to suggest that his paintings – those life-loving explosions of impossible blues and hot pinks, violent oranges and triumphant greens – were products of an overflow of emotions.He famously spent a long time in his Bloomsbury studio looking and overpainting, waiting for the moment when the right feeling came in a rush and found its expression o