Sugimoto's seascape and theater photographs achieve luminous vertical gradients dissolving from pale sky tones into darker earthly registers, sharing Cruikshank's precise tonal transitions and atmospheric minimalism. Both works reduce the visible world to a single seamless band of light and color.

Halley works in color field abstraction with vibrant, carefully controlled chromatic relationships on canvas, producing works that prioritize pure color experience over representation. His sustained engagement with contemporary minimalist painting and vivid hue contrast closely mirrors Cruikshank's gradient color field approach.

Gillick is a British contemporary artist whose abstract works employ cool to warm color progressions and reductive minimalist compositions that parallel Cruikshank's seamless atmospheric gradients. Both share a British contemporary sensibility grounded in restrained, luminous color relationships.