Damien Hirst & his 'Spot Paintings'

'I wanted to find a way to use colour in paintings that wasn't expressionism. I was taught by painters who believed that as an artist you paint how you feel and I believed in that for a long time.

Damien Hirst stands in front of one of his paintings at the Gagosian Gallery in New York

the artwork 'Hydroquinone, 2006', part of the Damien Hirst's exhibition in London

The painting 'L-Tyrosince-15N, 2001' is on show at the gallery in London

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His spot paintings are spiffy riffs on Sol LeWitt’s ‘60s formula: authorless paintings that can be made by anyone. Each one looks cheery, fresh and modern. The grids are machinelike, the color lifelike -- bingo, a brand. I wouldn’t mind owning a spot painting at all. Yet the idea of owning more than one is unimaginable. You see one, and you really have seen them all.  JERRY SALTZ