Hockney exhibition showcases digital flower art
David Hockney assisted by Jonathan WilkinsonA David Hockney exhibition featuring 20 flower paintings created on an iPad as well as a large-scale landscape work has opened in Saltaire.
It is the first time the work has been exhibited in the UK outside London.
Also on view for the first time in Europe is a six-screen video installation showing Hockney's digital brushstrokes as he created one of the paintings.
Zoe Silver, from Salts Mill, said organisers were delighted to have "these amazing pictures" on show throughout Bradford's year as UK City of Culture.
"They are just really joyful, very sweet and domestic pictures of beautiful things," she said.
"He calls the work he does on his iPad 'hand done in a new way'.
"He is working with his hands but purely in the digital realm and then printing them out.
"David loves his iPad and he thinks Turner would have loved the iPad too."
Ms Silver said she thought the work was "just joyous".
"All the characters of the flowers, the different feelings, each flower has such a different atmosphere."
Ms Silver said Hockney was "incredibly generous" to "reveal his process" by including the video of his digital brushstrokes.
"It's very empowering and it's an invitation to make art," she said.
Hockney has also created a 10ft (3m) by 16ft (5m) work for the exhibition in which he appears not once but twice.
In 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed) two Hockney figures sit surveying the 20 Flowers, both with their backs to the camera, white-capped and blue-suited, one smoking, the other not.
The exhibition at Salts Mill is free to enter and is open from Wednesday to Sunday.
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