Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy

David Hockney's reflections on life and art, drawn from conversations during his time self-isolating in rural Normandy, alongside his iPad drawings and paintings.

On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the changing seasons, and to keep the noise of the world at bay. When Covid-19 and lockdown followed, life at La Grande Cour—the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where he had set up a studio a year earlier—continued m...