DAVID HOCKNEY WATCHES SPRING.

DAVID HOCKNEY WATCHES SPRING. Jackie Wullschlager had an interview with David Hockney in the Financial Times (January 14-15). He has a new exhibit at the Tate Gallery entitled: “The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire, in 2011”. Before he began painting, he spent three springs preparing, observing the coming of spring near his home. He would take a chair and sit outside for half an hour at a time. He gives an example of the kind of thing he would think about on a given day: how does the cloud behind the tree look like reflected in the water? Hockney then painted 52 paintings in the spring of last year.