I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important.
Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney\'s new Normandy drawings and paintin.
It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator.
In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art\'s capacity to divert and inspire.
So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year earlier, in time to paint the arrival of spring.
On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. but about how to live.
He has much to teach us, not only about how to see ...
He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees.
A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for sixty years, yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics or even history.
We see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder.
Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney\'s new Normandy drawings and paintings alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others.
It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator.
In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.
Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art\'s capacity to divert and inspire.
So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring.
David HockneyOn turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to live a life of simple pleasures, undisturbed and undistracted; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay.
We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it.
I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important
