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David Hockney RA's recent East Yorkshire landscapes play the starring role in his forthcoming show at the RA. Here, the exhibition's co-curator, Edith Devaney, explains what is special about this part of the country and how the artist's return to his roots shaped his artistic practice.
Video image credits: David Hockney, 'Woldgate Woods, 21,23 and 29 November 2006'. Oil on six canvases (each 91.4 x 121.9 cm, 182.9 x 365.8cm. Courtesy of the artist. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt.
David Hockney, 'The Road across the Wolds', 1997. Oil on canvas, 121.9 x 152.4 cm. Mrs Margaret Silver © David Hockney. Photo credit: Steve Oliver.
David Hockney, 'Pearblosson Highway, 11-18 April 1986 #1', Photocollage, 119.4 x 163.8 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of David Hockney © David Hockney.
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Woldgate Woods I see through my window daily. Part of my life from early childhood as they were part of my parents and grandparents this familiar landscape is no ordinary one. Long may it remain a forgotten corner of expansive horizons reflecting a world hardly touched by time.
Posted on: March 5, 2012 5:16 AM by Cathy Goldthorpe
Fantastic response to familiar landscapes which is so inspiring. To have someone like Hockney recognise and acknowledge the ordinary as beautiful is life affirming!
Posted on: January 22, 2012 11:39 AM by Elaine Fear