This book presents a comprehensive view of David Hockney’s groundbreaking artistic journey using digital devices as his medium. Beginning in 2009, Hockney started creating paintings on the iPhone, drawing morning landscapes and everyday scenes directly on the screen with luminous, pure colors and freely flowing lines. The light emitted by the display became a new pictorial language—unmixed, radiant, and full of subtle nuance—opening up fresh visual possibilities in his work. In 2010, he moved on to the iPad, whose larger screen further expanded his artistic range, allowing for a richer and more intricate interplay of color, light, and composition.
The book includes 120 digital paintings created between 2009 and 2012, all personally selected and sequenced by the artist himself. Many of the works are based on views from the windows of Hockney’s home in Yorkshire, England, capturing brilliant sunrises, lilac-tinted morning skies, tranquil nocturnal lights, and the quiet arrival of spring. Throughout the pages, captivating details emerge: raindrops on windowpanes, distant lights glowing in the night, reflections on vases, and the lush variety of plants on the windowsill—each image forming a poetic meditation on time, seasons, and the act of looking.
More than a simple collection of images, this book reads like a continuously unfolding visual diary. Through these digital paintings, readers are invited to see the passage of time through Hockney’s eyes, experiencing the slow, gentle movement of everyday moments. First released in 2020 as a limited signed edition, the book now returns in a more accessible pocket-sized format, allowing a wider audience to collect and enjoy this warm, light-filled way of seeing. As one critic aptly remarked, this book feels like a bouquet personally offered by David Hockney—an invitation to all who are willing to open their eyes and look at the world anew.