Remembering David Hockney, in his own words

The late British artist’s early works depicted queer love when homosexuality was still criminalised, while his vivid swimming pool paintings remain ‘embedded in the psyche as symbols of Los Angeles’

Remembering David Hockney, in his own words
David Hockney (1937-2026)

Born in 1937 in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire, David Hockney soon became one of the UK’s most beloved and prolific artists. From his famous depiction of a sun-soaked pool in Los Angeles in A Bigger Splash (1967) to the large-scale landscape of the Yorkshire countryside painted in a vibrant Fauvist colour palette in Winter Timber (2009), his work has always embraced sensuality and the beauty of the so-calledhellip;

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