A restaurant down the road from our newsroom was burgled. The police forensic team arrived to dust for prints. The old boy who was sitting outside, eating soup and smoking extra thick Camel cigarettes – a lunchtime regular – offered them advice on how to use a small brush. The forensic team dismissed his feedback. Restaurant owner James Chiavarini recalled: “The police had no idea who he was. They just thought him to be a batty old northerner. That suited him fine.” David Hockney resumed eating his soup.************
Hockney’s love of everyday pleasures – and their place in his work – was captured in a letter he wrote in 2020.
“I’m 82, I’m going to die. We die because we are born. The only things that matter in life are food and love, in that order, and also our little dog Ruby. I truly believe this, and for me, the basis of art is love. I love life.”
The note captures the vibrancy of his art, his lack of pretension, and his acceptance of mortality without despair. How many of us create work that is instantly recognisable to others? Next year’s immersive exhibition at the Tate Modern, marking Hockney’s 90th birthday, will celebrate a genius.
Fun, dashing, radical, dogmatic and defiant – not least of doctors, and their insistence he stop smoking – Hockney successfully reinvented himself, and reinvigorated himself, decade after decade. Beyond the artistic merit of his work, his story is life-affirming.
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