1 An unexpected move
2 Studio work
3 La vie française: French life in a Bohemian style
4 Lines and time
5 A merry Christmas and an unexpected New Year
6 Locked down in paradise
7 A house for an artist and a painter’s garden
8 The sky, the sky!
9 Sumptuous blacks and subtler greens
10 Several smaller splashes
11 Everything flows
12 Rippling lines and musical spaces
13 Lost (and found) in translation
14 Picasso, Proust, and pictures
15 Being somewhere
16 Full moon in Normandy
A Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy
David Hockney (1937-2026) was one of the most influential
British artists of the 20th century. He produced work in almost
every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and
printmaking - and stretched the boundaries of all of them. His
groundbreaking Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques
of the Old Masters is published by Thames & Hudson, as are his
books in partnership with Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message (2011),
A History of Pictures (2016) and Spring Cannot be Cancelled (2021).
Thames & Hudson also published the catalogue of his blockbuster
exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2025.
Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator. His books include
Modernists & Mavericks, Man with a Blue Scarf, A Bigger Message,
Rendez-vous with Art (with Philippe de Montebello), A History of
Pictures (with David Hockney), and, most recently, The Pursuit of
Art, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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*
A burst of springtime joy
*Daily Telegraph*
Lavishly illustrated... Gayford is a thoughtfully attentive critic
with a capacious frame of reference
*Guardian*
Gloriously illustrated ... It's a book about many things -
Hockney's love of France and French painting, his reflections on
many other artists among them. But at its heart is this
octogenarian's adoration of nature, his belief that art is rooted
in love, and a restless gusto for life
*Andrew Marr, The Spectator*
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