1977

For the first time H applies paint to a print, Julian and Alexis. He also asks his son Sam to help him colour the edition, under his supervision. From now on he will add hand colouring to all his prints.

Foy Nissen’s Bombay hangs in the Hayward Annual. Current British Art Selected by Michael Compton, Howard Hodgkin and William Turnbull.

Buys a flat in a house near the British Museum. Eventually buys the rest of the building and the former dairy behind the house, which becomes a studio.

Meets Nick Underwood, a friend of George Lawson and Wayne Sleep, and visits him in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Underwood attends Oral Roberts University. Creates a series of prints for Petersburg Studios, Nick, A Furnished Room, Jarid’s Porch, Nick’s Room and Storm, as well as paintings such as Lawson Underwood & Sleep, Jealousy and a gouache, A Storm. Lawson’s comment on a living room in a Tulsa suburb inspired H’s print Here we are in Croydon.