David Hockey, like most Yorkshireman, is very proud of his roots and also highly enthusiastic about the artistic qualities of the countryside that he grew up around.
This is the highest point in the Yorkshire Wolds and it was from here that the snaking road was captured by the artist.
For a long time David Hockney divided his time between the US and Great Britain, and more specifically between Los Angeles, where he has lived most recently since 2013, and his native Yorkshire, whose wooded countryside provides the motifs of the two series on show at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles: The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven), comprising 12 large-format inkjet prints from drawings that Hockney created on his iPad, and Woldgate, The Arrival of Spring in 2013 (twenty thirteen), a set of 25 charcoal drawings on paper, presented here in five groups of five views.
