British painter Hockney reveals

LONDON: British artist David Hockney one of the most influential painters of his generation, is to stage an exhibition of his landscapes from his native Yorkshire, including recent works produced on an iPadThe exhibition, “David Hockney a Bigger Picture”, will run at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from January 21 until April 9. Featuring some never-before-seen works it focuses on the Bradford painter’s home county of Yorkshire in northern England.
The 74-year-old can “take it everywhere with him instead of carrying oil paint and brushes and watercolours and colour pencils and ink,” one of the exhibition’s curators, Marco Livingstone, said at the press launch Wednesday.