Video: David Hockney on his celebration of spring

Published 10 June 2021

With David Hockney’s joyful exhibition of spring works filling our galleries – but the artist back at home in his Normandy studio – curator Edith Devaney catches up with him from the RA, pandemic-style.

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    “There is no oil painting art, or digital art... There’s only art, actually.”

    David Hockney tells curator Edith Devaney why the iPad is his medium of choice these days – and how he’s used it to capture joy in his works.

    All works: iPad paintings by David Hockney made between February and early July 2020. Collection of the artist. © David Hockney.