Artist Frank Bowling at 90: ‘I’m still trying to make the best painting the world has ever seen’

He became a Royal Academician in 2005, the first black artist to do so, and was knighted in 2020, the year after his major retrospective at Tate. One reviewer said of that Tate show, “Bowling’s painting is all about painting. It is about colour, texture, composition, form, space, depth, fluidity. And, at its best, it’s beautiful.”