David Hockney obituary (opens in new tab)

Ceaselessly inventive painter whose best known works were inspired by the light and colour he encountered in 1960s CaliforniaSoon after he moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, the artist David Hockney was visited by his mother. As they drove back from the airport, far from her native Bradford, she gazed about her in apparent awe at the beauties of sun-kissed southern California. Then, as Hockney was fond of recalling, she turned and said: “I don’t understand it. Such lovely drying weather and n...