"In so far as I have any conscious purpose, it is to show the beauty of natural objects which are normally thought uninteresting or even unattractive: such things as Brussels sprouts, turnips, onions, pebbles and flints, bulbs, dead leaves, bleached vertebrae, an old boot cast up by the tide. People sometimes tell me that they had never really ‘seen’ something before I painted it, and I should like to believe this…For myself, if I must put it into words, I try to look at quite simple things as though I were seeing them for the first time and as though no one had ever painted them before." "I like to show the beauty of things that no one looks at twice."
Hodgkin était un spécialiste de la nature morte, notamment des légumes et végétaux, comme on peut le voir dans ces œuvres en ligne à la Tate. Pendant la Seconde Guerre il s'était proposé de documenter les plantes sauvages qui poussaient sur les sites bombardés, ainsi dans :
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