Eileen Hogan
Eileen Hogan (born 1 March 1946 in London) is an English painter and book artist. She is a Research Professor at Wimbledon College of Art (a constituent college of the University of the Arts London), a patron of Mindroom and a trustee of the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Life and work 
Hogan was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Arts (1963–1967), the Royal Academy Schools (1967–1970), the British School of Archaeology at Athens (1970–1971) and the Royal College of Art (1971–1973). Robert Medley, Head of Painting at Camberwell, was himself an influence on Hogan, and provided his students with an eclectic mix of visiting lecturers, including Frank Auerbach, Ronald Kitaj, Anthony Fry, Patrick Procktor and Euan Uglow.

Hogan remembers:
 "Euan Uglow would have a model in for several months. The model would keep the same pose, and we would all draw intensely and slowly. Auerbach would be different.  He would draw in the studio, charcoal flying everywhere, and we'd work in a haze of 

Carel Weight was the Professor of Painting at the RCA and in a catalogue for an exhibition of Hogan's paintings at The Fine Art Society in 1993 he wrote:
 "She found her motifs in the parks and gardens of South London near her home. The paintings were very original. The skies were blotted out by rich, dark trees, dense olive in colour with long shadows cast by trees across the foreground and the scenes were peopled by dark shapes. All these elements were evocative of the late summer afternoons with a suggestion of thunder in the 
George Melly wrote in The Guardian (1993) about a painting from the time when Hogan lived in Athens:
 "…Athinas shows a rainy street of shoddy shops whose Greek lettering is the only explanations of its Hellenic title (we might otherwise be in Huddersfield). There are written graffiti, reflections, groups of people with umbrellas. There's something going on here. Something being kept from us. As uneasy as a Hitchcock 

Hogan has shown regularly at The Fine Art Society, London since 1980  – the most recent exhibition being with the painter Leonard Rosoman RA in 2008. Commissions and awards include recording the Women's Royal Naval Services for the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum, a Churchill Traveling Fellowship for research in America, Australia and Japan, and most recently, in 2009, as the Artist-in-Residence for The All England Lawn Tennis Club Championships.

Throughout Hogan's career, her paintings have related to places which have significance for her, and she has developed specific projects over a number of years. She painted Ian Hamilton Finlay in his garden at Little Sparta, between 1997 and 2006 (triptych of IHF shown in the BP Portrait Award in 2007, portrait of IHF, shown in the RA Summer Exhibition 2008, and Beehives at Little Sparta, shown in the RA Summer Exhibition in 2009). Other portraits include Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover, formerly Anya Linden, ballerina, shown in the BP Portrait Award 2009.

In 2006 The Fine Art Society exhibited her series of paintings based around four garden squares, near her home. Christopher Gibbs wrote in the accompanying publication:
 "…Each garden is a concealed world of which the outsider gets a green veiled glimpse, each has in common areas for maintenance, recreation and repose. These intriguing spaces, which Eileen now shares with us, have inside them atmospheres and characteristics which even the most incorrigible snoopers can never sense, and unique vantage points from which to contemplate the surrounding architecture, its joys and woes..."

Hogan's interest in book art was triggered by her love of lettering, the relationship between words and images and lettering as drawing. She produced three books with the Lion and Unicorn Press when she was a student at the Royal College of Art and went on to establish The Camberwell Press at Camberwell College of Arts, and was its Director from 1984 to 1997. Recent exhibitions of Hogan's book art include Eileen Hogan's Poetry Box (San Francisco Center for the Book) in 2007, in 2009 Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bindings for Eileen Hogan Victoria and Albert Museum. and in the same exhibition, expanded to include Saumarez Smith's jewelry and Hogan's portraits of Saumarez Smith, at the Yale Center for British Art in 2010.

2019 - Personal Geographies: Yale Center for British Art

 2011 – Royal Academy Summer Show also 2010, 2009,2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1974
 2010 – Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith, Yale Center for British Art
 2009 – BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery (also 2007); Romilly Saumarez Smith: bookbindings for Eileen Hogan, Victoria and Albert Museum;
 2008 – The Fine Art Society London, with Leonard Rosoman; (solo exhibitions at The Fine Art Society in 2006, 2000, 1997, 1992, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1982 and 1980)
 2007 – Eileen Hogan's Poetry Box San Francisco Center for the Book;, Laing Gallery, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
 2006 – Unregulated Printing, Cambridge University
 2005 – Portraits, Power and Politics, Buckinghamshire County Museum; Recent Acquisitions: Yale Center for British Art
 2004 – The Writer and the Garden, British Library
 2002 – Processes of Renewal:  Toshiba Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum
Earlier solo exhibitions include at the Imperial War Museum (1984) and the British Council in Athens (1983 and 1971)

Selected public collections
 British Library
 Buffalo University New York
 Cambridge University Library
 Esme Fairbairn Trust
 Gleeson Library University of San Francisco
 Government Art Collection
 Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
 Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem
 Houghton Library, Harvard
 Imperial War Museum, London 
 The Library of Congress, Washington DC
 National Library of Australia
 Newberry Library, Chicago
 Nuffield Foundation
 Rijksmuseum-Meermanno, Hague
 Stanford University
 Tullie House City Museum, Carlisle
 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
 University of the Arts, London
 Yale Center for British Art