08/08/2026
David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most inventive and enduring figures in post‑war British art.
Admired for his fearless experimentation across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and digital media, he has continually sought new ways to capture perception, space, and experience.
A superb draughtsman - precise yet spontaneous - Hockney shares with Degas a fascination for the human figure and the act of seeing. His portraits, whether of friends, family, or himself, evoke subtle psychological truth through clarity of line and radiant colour.
Over a long career, Hockney has repeatedly reinvented his style without losing coherence.
The sun‑drenched Los Angeles paintings of the 1960s explore modern desire with formal rigour; later Yorkshire landscapes, rendered in intense chromatic planes, affirm his delight in light and place.
His photographic “joiners” of the 1980s and digital drawings on iPad reveal the same restless curiosity about vision and technology.
Though sometimes uneven when he ventures into pure invention, Hockney’s art is sustained by generosity, wit, and a deep faith in the pleasures of looking.
Indifferent to fashion yet alert to change, he remains a celebrant of visual discovery - an artist for whom seeing, remembering, and imagining are inseparable acts of joy.
Here are some of his great works, please share and follow me for more of my art posts.
