1999

Shows 22 paintings at Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, including Night and Day and After Matisse. James Fenton writes in the catalogue.

Paints an image of an eye, which is enlarged photographically to cover the entire outside wall of the new circular Imax Cinema on Waterloo Roundabout, London. “There used to be a very large Howard Hodgkin mural wrapped around the Imax cinema in Waterloo, which gave a certain lift to the landscape.” (Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent, 30 March 2007). It was in place 1999-2006.

Paints an image for the Royal Mail, used on the 64p millennium stamp.

Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of Oxford.

Designs backcloth for Holst’s opera ‘Savitri’, staged in the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.