J, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cartoon ' The portfolio features Wool's

' The portfolio features Wool's characteristic stenciled typography on paper

when he first collaborated with Jean Milant at Cirrus Editions

creates a particular depth and resonance within the composition

mushrooms embody the cyclical rhythms of life and death

which began at the 1988 Freeze exhibition in London's docklands

J, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cartoon ' The portfolio features Wool'sDavid Hockney's letter J comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A grand ornamental J, its black body outlined in red and shadowed with loops of pale blue scribble, descends through a loosely drawn perspective of hand ruled grids the swashed capital part calligraphy, part architecture. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and