The British Artist Series books are affordable and accessible introductions by leading authorities to some of the greatest figures in British art.

Patrick Caulfield was a student at the Royal College of Art between 1960-63 alongside David Hockney and Allen Jones. His subject matter draws more from the masters of modern art such as Braque and Gris than from the consumer culture that preoccupied his fellow students.The deceptive simplicity of his images, perfectly matched by the aesthetic capacities of the process, is clear throughout the various phases of his printmaking career.

During his lifetime the Serpentine gallery, the Hayward gallery and Tate gallery in London all held major retrospectives of his paintings. Caulfield died in 2005 having made an indelible contribution to British painting and printmaking.

Clarrie Wallis is Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain.