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Photo: Snowdon/Trunk Archive. David Hockney (b.1937) remains one of the most celebrated and popular British artists of the 20th century. For more than 60 years he has been breaking boundaries in the media he has used, including painting, drawing, print, photography and video.
David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most popular and widely recognised artists of our time. After first coming to public attention in 1961, while still a student at the Royal College of Art, he went on to produce some of the best-known paintings of the 1960s.
Dec 10, 2023 · Offering a look at the artist's life and multifaceted career, this volume contains more than three hundred reproductions of Hockney's art and essays by distinguished critics and artist friends.
82 Portraits and 1 Still Life. The Road to York through Sledmere, 1997 - oil on canvas 48x60 in. Official Works by David Hockney including exhibitions, resources and contact information.
- Looking Towards Huggate – Huggate
- Going Up Garrowby Hill – Garrowby
- The Road to York Through Sledmere – Sledmere
- Kilham July 2004 – Kilham
- The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate – Bridlington
One of the highlights from Hockney’s vast collection Midsummer: East Yorkshire, Looking Towards Huggateis a marvellous singular watercolour piece that makes up one part of the 36 piece group. The picture perfectly captures the summer haze of East Yorkshire and gives you a Hockneyesque visual interpretation of the grand vista of the hilly, natural a...
Garrowby Hill is both a majestic and oppressive sight in one. In summer, from its summit, you get the best view of Yorkshire that you’re likely to get east of York. In winter though, the sheer size protrudes from a very bleak scene that can only be described as barren, with the flora brown and covered in snow – a foreboding image in comparison to i...
One of the first pieces Hockney created after returning back to Yorkshire in 1997, The Road to York Through Sledmere is one of the most visually striking he ever conceived. Oil on canvas painting, the work shows the road from Bridlington, where Hockneywas living at the time, to the ancient city of York. A natural marvel, featuring many stark and va...
Taken from the Midsummer: East Yorkshirecollection, this watercolour on paper, is another striking piece of work by Hockney. It captures the languid, tranquil beauty of The Wolds, and just like his depiction of Sledmere, it is spot on. Not much is known about this particular painting aside from the overall collection it comes from. Kilham itself is...
An incredibly colourful painting, 2011’sThe Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire, is made up of 32 separate canvasses of oil paintings. Here, he channels his inner Van Gogh, showing again that as a visual artist, his dexterity is unmatched. Woldgate is a narrow road that follows an old Roman road that runs from Bessingby Hill on the outski...
Nov 13, 2012 · The David Hockney art trail is an off the beaten track adventure; down narrow lanes that criss-cross the Wolds. We tried to map as many locations as possible in advance – using the images that Hockney created for the exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, held in the spring of 2012 – but greatly underestimated how far apart the ...
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Painting trees, hills and byways with bold, vivid colours, Hockney’s iconic paintings, like The Road Across the Wolds and Garrowby Hill, capture a landscape of remote countryside, secluded villages and open skies.
