A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'We have lost touch with nature, rather
foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time
be over and then what? What have we learned?... The only real
things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for]
our little dog Ruby... and the source of art is love. I love life.'
DAVID HOCKNEY Praise for Spring Cannot be Cancelled: 'This book is
not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas
about art, space, time and light. It is scholarly, thoughtful and
provoking' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated... Gayford is a
thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference'
Guardian 'Hockney and Gayford's exchanges are infused with their
deep knowledge of the history of art ... This is a charming book,
and ideal for lockdown because it teaches you to look harder at the
things around you' Lynn Barber,The Spectator 'Designed to
underscore [Hockney's] original message of hope, and to further
explore how art can gladden and invigorate ... meanders amiably
from Rembrandt, to the pleasure principle, andouillette sausages
and, naturally, to spring' Daily Telegraph On turning eighty, David
Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place
to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep
the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown
struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the
centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a
year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he
relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater
devotion to his art. Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting
manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is
based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between
Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and
collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of
Hockney's new, unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings
alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others. We see how
Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and
sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public
eye for sixty years, yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view
of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four
acres of northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him
for decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has
much to teach us, not only about how to see... but about how to
live. With 142 illustrations in colour
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