The East Riding of Yorkshire, where, after leaving the sunny landscapes of California, Bradford born artist David Hockney returned to live and paint. Hockney’s art challenges how we perceive the world, some of his photographic collages are almost cubist, as this podcast is, fragmentary, lacking a straight chronology. Your mind does not think in simple, ordered steps. Your eyes and your mind are constantly moving. Hockney wants to reflect that. I can only try and use a similar method to describe him and what he does.
Tag Archives: London
Camberwell
Remembering an afternoon in Camberwell with artist Tom Phillips, admiring his Humament, his Cloopseend, not to mention his Hairy Balls.
The M4
Travel the M4 from Swansea in the west, to London in the east and you travel through time: a Viking settlement to a Roman city via a prehistoric landscape.
Acton, London W3
Acton, London W3, where I discovered Welsh writer Arthur Machen in the library, slightly dishevelled, jacket all ripped.