On Location: A Local Village + David Hockney

Tealby. A quaint little village surrounded by extensive green fields and countryside. I took my camera along to the village I would otherwise be unaware of if I did not have family living there and photographed around. I captured images extensively of trees and land but had the occasional photo that featured something other. One was an image that featured my grandmother who was getting out the car as a took a photo of the trees behind her.
There was something in this photo that I began to explore, over all the other photography I gathered that day. I worked on a style and looked to line drawing to keep the ideas simple.

I then moved on to explore the experiment in colour and worked in oil paint. Once I was finished, the bold, blocky colour reminded me of David Hockey's wondrously coloured landscape paintings.
I began to delve more into research on the artist and came across a rather interesting article by the telegraph.

Comments such as "eyesore" and "almost industrial" are not the kind you would expect to be associated with Hockney's rainbow landscapes, and so I read on to find that in fact, the locations selected by the artist were not the glamorous, idealistic images he produced, but instead the very scenes of eyesores and industry.
This definitely puts a new perspective on the works and creates another possibility in my developing project.









http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9054362/David-Hockney-landscapes-in-reality-more-like-rubbish-tips.html