The present iPad drawings are from the series of 49 works of this scale from David Hockney’s celebrated Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 series. One of the artist’s most vibrant and ambitious explorations of landscape, perception, and technological possibility, the series comprises dozens of images, each documenting subtle shifts in color, light and atmosphere. Instead of presenting a single, authoritative view of spring, Hockney constructs a visual diary of its progress by returning repeatedly to the same stretch of Woldgate and showing the landscape as something experienced over time rather than frozen in an instant.

Hockney’s Yorkshire scenes echo these precedents while transposing them into the twenty-first century. His roads, fields, and trees recall the very symbols embedded in Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner. Yet, Hockney’s iPads drawings insist that tradition is not fixed, but evolving, demonstrating that the lineage of British landscape painting can extend into pixels and screens, into new luminous forms of mark-making.