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This is my final image from the David Hockney 2025 retrospective exhibition in Paris – and what better way of concluding proceedings than with a capture of the great man himself?
It’s a detail from a photographic drawing (who knew?!) entitled Looking at the Flowers (Framed), created by Hockney in 2022. It’s printed on paper, mounted on sheets of Dibond (aluminium composite sheet), and measures 300cm x 518cm. What I love about this self portrait is that it’s a rear view of the man defiantly smoking a cigarette.
Hockney, as any aficionado will know, is a lifelong tobacco inhaler who rails at all the restrictions in place against smoking. And, I suppose, at the age of 87, why should he care?
Anyway. Farewell to the Hockney Paris exposition; to have been here and seen it for myself has been one of the highlights of my cultural life. I’ve followed him and his work since the 1960s, and he’s still creating, innovating, exploring ideas, pushing the boundaries of art – and showing no sign of slowing down. Joy!
Its a right that the first post from my recent trip to France should be a painting by David Hockney as visiting his new exhibition in Paris was the sole reason for going there . I am so glad I made the effort it was a joyful experience to spend time with Hockneys work .
Three cheers for the Fondation Louis Vuitton they have put on wonderful show with paintings that span the full range of Hockneys creative work from 1955 to 2025. Though the main focus of the shoe are the landscapes and portraits of the last 25 years. Particularly the work he did in East Yorkshire and then the marvellous paintings of his garden that he made in Normandy during the pandemic
This is his most recent self-portrait that was painted in London in early 2025 .Inevitably it shows Hockney working in a garden with a cigarette a vice he loves and refuses to give up. Its title “ Play within play, within a play . Me with a cigarette “
Hockney is almost 88 and while he is now quite frail he is still working every day.. He has been quite ill and he said in an interview to the BBC that he did not think he would be able see the exhibition that was over two years in the planning. In the same interview he said he thought this was his finest exhibition, I completely agree. He has given people so much pleasure over his lifetime long may he continue
The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris invited David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building that was designed by the influential architect Frank Gehry for an exhibition that is exceptional in its scale and its originality. The exhibition brings together more than 400 of his works from 1955 to 2025 There are works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawing and immersive video installations.
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From David Hockney -Bigger & Closer [not smaller and further away] @ Lightroom, London
My video is copyrighted but the content remains the copyright of David Hockney & Lightroom!!!!
Today I went to the Hockney Experience at Lightroom, 8 minutes walk from Kings Cross/St Pancras in London. The photos I’ve taken include the audience lying and sitting around absorbed in the experience. It was spectacular.
I can only describe it using the websites words:
Holoport, the audio company, radically transforms how audiences engage with sound.
Disguise is a platform which enables audiences to experience spectacular visual experiences.
at the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
sorry for my absence again lately...been busy working or shooting....Hope to catch up again soon and thank you all for still patiently visiting my stream :)
LOCATION - SALTS MILL, SALTAIRE, YORKSHIRE.
LENS -MEIKE 6.5MM F/2.0
DAVID HOCKNEY'S "ARRIVAL OF SPRING"
SALTS MILL, SALTAIRE.
SHOT WITH A FISHEYE LENS,
Scratched photo inspired by the work of Daido Moriyama (slightly off kilter, ruined, blur and scratches)
Today I went to the Hockney Experience at Lightroom, 8 minutes walk from Kings Cross/St Pancras in London. The photos I’ve taken include the audience lying and sitting around absorbed in the experience. It was spectacular.
I can only describe it using the websites words:
Holoport, the audio company, radically transforms how audiences engage with sound.
Disguise is a platform which enables audiences to experience spectacular visual experiences.
A mantelpiece in the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery, Bury Street, London. Above it is Tree? by a young David Hockney. He painted this oil and Indian ink on canvas in 1962; he was 23 at the time, and a student at the Royal College of Art.
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Panographie du pub le Frog&Rosbif (montage numérique façon "David Hockney", c'est à dire avec une multitude de photos superposées à l'arrache, non retouchées, non courbées, non assemblées entre elles avec un logiciel de panorama, ...) réalisée avec 65 photos prises avec un compact numérique.
- Panography from the Frog&Rosbif pub (digital montage made in the style of David Hockney, i.e. with many detail shots overlayed carelessly, non-bended, non-blended, non-stitched, ...) made with 65 point&shoot digital camera photos .
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From David Hockney -Bigger & Closer [not smaller and further away] @ Lightroom, London
My video is copyrighted but the content remains the copyright of David Hockney & Lightroom!!!!
The Dandy Artist
Roughly and playfully based on recent images of David Hockney
Gouache, monotype, ink
Paper
21 x 15 cm
with added drawing
What we have here are 18 digital videos, synchronised and presented on 18 monitor screens to comprise a single work of art. It’s just another example of David Hockney’s ceaselessly innovative work.
But there’s more to it than that. Thanks to imaginatively placed mirrors, the main block of 18 monitors is repeated at least a dozen times, which gives the viewer an extraordinary feeling of space.
Hockney created this piece, entitled A Bigger Space for Dancing, in 2012. It was one of more than 400 of his works to be seen at the Fondation Louis Vuitton building in Paris, displayed in 11 rooms spread over five floors. Beyond thrilling!
I am looking forward to revisiting favourite places like Salts Mill in Yorkshire. With lockdown easing, Salts Mill will be open to the public again from 16 April 2021.
The gallery was named after the year that the mill opened - is unique. It displays a large number of David Hockney's paintings, etchings, and drawings. Art materials and art books are for sale, dotted around this vast and inspiring space. Like all of the Mill, it's free to enter.
I don’t even have to think why I so admire the work of David Hockney: quite simply, he excites me. So far as I’m concerned, no living painter is more innovative, questioning and imaginative; no living painter experiments in the way that he does, nor has such an array of different styles.
His experiments with polaroid pictures in 1983, then with fax images five years later, are two standout examples of his innovative work, which to this day I find thrilling. Then, in his latter years, the work he’s produced on his iPad has been breathtaking. A painter who’s constantly searching, exploring, testing, discovering, ready to push the boundaries… there’s no-one quite like him, and at 83 he's indefatigable.
Here’s a selection of catalogues from the Hockney exhibitions I’ve visited over the years, each of which is a book in its own right: A Bigger Picture (Royal Academy, 2012); A Drawing Retrospective (Royal Academy, 1995); Printmaker (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2014; David Hockney (Tate Britain, 2017); A Retrospective (Tate Gallery, 1988); Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, 2006); and Early Drawings (Offer Waterman & Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2015).
Many more exhibitions to come, I hope… I’ll be there!
David Hockney is an English painter, photographer, printmaker, stage designer, and draughtsman born in 1937. A pioneer of the 1960s British art movement, he's considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hockney is best known for his vibrant paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools and the men who swam in them, which he created in the 1960s and 70s after moving to LA.
Feeling a little side-swiped today so went to look at people, looking at art.
David Hockney Gallery.
Salts Mill
Saltaire
Bradford
My fourth and final capture from David Hockney’s ‘immersive’ exhibition in London. Always being at the forefront of art and new technology, this extraordinary artist arrived in London in 2023 to use large-scale projection and an enveloping sound system in a huge new space. Here, thanks to his innovation, ingenuity and commentary, he took the visitor on a personal journey through 60 years of his work, and he called the event David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away).
For any Hockney aficionado, and I count myself as one, this was revealing and absorbing – for the overall sensory experience, of course, but also because of his enlightening tailor-made commentary. “The world” he says, “is very, very beautiful, but most people don’t look very much. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk; they don’t really look at things with any kind of intensity. I do.” This exhibition showed us the fabulous, colourful results of his observations.
Tennis is a large scale artwork completed by David Hockney in New York then faxed to Johnathan Silver at Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford. Johnathan then assembled the work in front of a small, appreciative audience.
I played a very minor roll in the creation of this artwork in that I supplied the receiving fax machine! (My claim to fame?). Well, would Leonardo have created the Mona Lisa without a local paint brush maker?
Another image of Normandy this one made by the artist David Hockney . It's a tiny section of a vast work called “ A year in Normandie “ which at 90.75 metres (295 foot) long is David Hockney’s biggest ever picture: a vibrant, joyful frieze recording the changing seasons in and around the artist’s French garden. This was the first time this vast work has been seen in the UK after being shown at the Orangerie in Paris.
We saw the work at Salts Mill in Shipley near Bradford its a huge old Cotton Mill on the banks of the River Aire . Hockney was born in Bradford and for many years Salts Mill has been closely linked to his work. The English artist who at one time was based in California now lives in Normandy in an old farmhouse in the Pays D’ Auge. He writes that the inspiration for this huge work was the famous Bayeux Tapestry that is situated close to where Hockney now lives .
A technical note “ A year in Normandie “ was created by Hockney on an iPad then enlarged onto canvas. You might think this is easy compared to painting but you try using brushes app on an iPad it's very difficult to use. If you are interested in Hockneys life and work in Normandy I can recommend a book called “The Spring cannot be cancelled “ a delightful read .
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A poster of this David Hockney painting hangs in my living room. Original painting is in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. This photo of the poster has been processed using Deep Dream Generator.
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