In this film, Howard Hodgkin, one of the great painters of modern times, explains how he takes a transient emotion and struggles to transform it into something concrete and lasting. He says that memory is probably the principal subject of all his pictures. He talks about his use of colour, scale, materials, his choice of themes, the artists that he admires, his experience of being a painter, and the passions and preoccupations that lie behind his art. It is edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg, and directed by Malisso Raines.