Hockney East Yorkshire Paintings

David hockney was born on 9 july 1937 in saltaire bradford.

Hockney east yorkshire paintings. For those who admire hockney s artwork east yorkshire is the place to discover in particular the inspiration behind some of his most celebrated landscapes. Hockney was a familiar sight here a few years back painting at his easel on the wide grass verges along the small roads leading north from the village. And a self guided david hockney trail around east yorkshire. The east yorkshire landscape will include five large new paintings each one around 12ft long.

David hockney paintings david hockney s vibrant colours dominate this gallery which covers his most famous artwork. The exhibition of new paintings marks the artist s 70th birthday in july. East yorkshire 36 works hockney completed this 36 part watercolor series while in bridlington. You can stand where he painted bigger trees a 40ft long work.

Here at salts mill we have been hanging our vast victorian factory spaces with work by this life enhancing artist for over 3 decades. The east yorkshire landscape illustrates an extraordinary body of painting by the artist who in recent years has returned to the pastoral landscape of his youth in order to capture the vistas and changing seasons of his surrounding environs in northern england. David hockney s the arrival of spring in woldgate east yorkshire in 2011 is one of several paintings by the british artist featured in a new exhibition at the van gogh museum in amsterdam. He is the uk s greatest living artist constantly working innovating looking and looking again.

Louver gallery located in venice california february 9 march 24 2007. The new works were all painted from the same spot in woldgate woods over the course of one year. As prolific as he is innovative it truly is an impossible task to summarise his career up to now with just a small selection of paintings. These same pictures were later.

The yorkshire wolds provide the backdrop for a series of paintings that span 50 years of hockney s fascination with the area. We assumed it was someone who d retired and. Five large scale six canvas paintings of the woldgate woods debuted in hockney s solo exhibition at l a. Hockney fans will be able to head for the locations of famous works such as a wooded lane just outside the charming village of warter.

David hockney was born in bradford in 1937.