21ST APRIL 2021, YELLOW FLOWERS IN A SMALL MILK CHURN, 2021

  • 21st April 2021, Yellow Flowers in a Small Milk Churn, 2021, David Hockney
    21st April 2021, Yellow Flowers in a Small Milk Churn, 2021
    iPad painting printed on paper, 89 x 63.5 cm
    Edition of 50
    ©David Hockney
     
    Yellow Flowers in a Small Milk Churn (21 April 2021) continues David Hockney’s vibrant exploration of still life using the iPad as his primary medium. The work places a rustic metal churn on Hockney’s signature checked tablecloth, its surface marked with the quick, textured strokes that digital drawing allows. The bright yellow blossoms lift upward with confidence, creating a striking contrast against the deep maroon background and the cool metallic tones of the vessel.
     
    This edition belongs to Hockney’s ongoing series of floral iPad compositions made during his time in Normandy. Working digitally enables him to react immediately to natural changes and experiment freely with colour, light and attitude. The result is a still life rooted in observation yet infused with contemporary energy, bringing a familiar subject into a distinctly modern language of mark making.
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  • "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning"

     
    - David Hockney
    The iPad became one of David Hockney’s most significant artistic tools because it solved a problem he had been wrestling with for decades: how to capture the speed of seeing. Unlike oil paint with its slow drying time, or even watercolour with its unpredictability, the iPad responds instantly. He can work directly with his fingers or stylus, adjusting colour and transparency on the spot, sketching light as it changes moment by moment. The device is portable and always ready, which means the fleeting life of flowers, the shift of a shadow or the first spark of an idea can be recorded before it disappears.