David Hockney

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Career

In 1964, Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to create a series of paintings of swimming ponds in the relatively new acrylic medium, using vibrant colours. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he bounced back and forth between Los Angeles, London, and Paris. He started a decade-long personal friendship with Gregory Evans in 1974 and is now a business partner in 2019. He rented a house in the Hollywood Hills in 1978 and then extended it to include his studio. He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house in Malibu, which he purchased in 1999 for around $1.5 million.

In the 1990s, Hockney returned to Yorkshire more often, usually every three months, to visit his mother, who died in 1999. He stayed for more than two weeks before his buddy Jonathan Silver, who was terminally ill, encouraged him to explore the local areas. He began painting based on memory, some from his boyhood. He completed the painting of Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landmark, in 1998. Hockney returned to Yorkshire for longer and longer stayed, and by 2003, he was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolours. In Bridlington, about 75 miles (121 km) from where he was born, he established a residence and studio in a converted bed and breakfast. His oil paintings, which were created after 2005, were inspired by his extensive studies in watercolour, culminating in a series titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire (2003–2004). He made paintings out of several smaller canvases, from two to five, which were laid together. He used digital photographic reproductions to catalog the day's work to aid him in visualizing it.

During the global COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2019, Hockney stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy.

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