13TH FEBRUARY 2021, FLOWERS IN A GLASS VASE, 2021

  • 13th February 2021, Flowers in a glass vase, 2021, David Hockney
    13th February 2021, Flowers in a glass vase, 2021
    iPad painting printed on paper, 89 x 63.5 cm
    Edition of 50
    ©David Hockney
     
    13th February 2021, Flowers in a Glass Vase continues Hockney’s Normandy still life series, where observation meets the speed of digital drawing. The glass vessel becomes a study in transparency and light, built from layered marks that mimic reflection without resorting to photographic slickness. The checked cloth anchors the composition, while the deep brown background pushes the bouquet forward, turning a simple arrangement into a visual focal point.
     
    Hockney uses the iPad to refresh a genre that risks feeling overly familiar. Instead of slow, perfected surfaces, he captures the moment something is looked at and noticed. Colour is adjusted instantly, forms are refined without labour, and the print transforms a screen-born work into a tactile artwork. It shows how technology can enhance attention rather than dull it, renewing the still life for a contemporary eye.
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  • "If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive."

     

    - David Hockney

    Hockney doesn’t look to flowers for prettiness; he looks to them for proof that the world is always in motion. A bloom bends toward light, petals fade, colour shifts by the hour. These changes are small but constant, and working on the iPad lets him match that pace. In his hands, flowers stop being symbols of stillness and become evidence of life unfolding right in front of us.