Beautiful geometry: William Boyd on John Hoyland

The world is finally waking up to John Hoyland and his abstract paintings. But William Boyd has been an admirer for decades. As John Hoyland: Power Stations opens at Damien Hirst’s new gallery, the novelist pays tribute to a ‘modern master’I bought my first John Hoyland in 1994. It was a predominantly red abstract with a rectangle of acid green at the bottom, painted in 1964. It was at auction – Christie’s – and as it turned out, I was the sole bidder. A year