David Hockney: My Normandy
MyArtBroker’s David Hockney Specialists Jasper Tordoff and Grace Brown take a closer look at David Hockney’s My Normandy series, a body of work that brings together landscape, domestic space, seasonal change, and Hockney’s ongoing engagement with digital image-making. Created after Hockney’s move to Normandy in 2019, the series reflects a significant late period in the artist’s career. Across ink drawings, iPad drawings, and printed editions, Hockney turns his attention to the immediate world around him: his house, his studio, the surrounding trees, gardens, and changing light of the French countryside.
In this Specialist Insights discussion, Jasper and Grace examine the visual qualities that define My Normandy, from its directness of line and colour to the way Hockney captures the rhythm of everyday observation. The conversation considers how the ink drawings and iPad drawings differ visually, and how familiar subjects become unmistakably Hockney through composition, perspective, colour, and a sustained attention to looking. The episode also explores the wider context of Hockney’s Normandy period. After decades of association with Yorkshire and California, Normandy offered the artist a new landscape through which to continue his long-standing interest in nature, time, and the changing seasons. The discussion looks at how this setting informed some of Hockney’s most ambitious recent works, including A Year in Normandie, his Bayeux Tapestry-inspired frieze currently on show at the Serpentine. Hockney’s embrace of technology is central to the series. Rather than treating the iPad as a novelty, Hockney uses it as a serious drawing tool, allowing him to work quickly, observe daily change, and translate those observations into printed form. In this sense, My Normandy sits within a wider career-long commitment to testing new ways of making and seeing.
From a market perspective, the conversation considers where My Normandy sits within Hockney’s print market today, particularly in relation to high-performing series such as The Arrival of Spring, Moving Focus, and his other digital works. Jasper and Grace discuss what buyers should look for when considering a work from the series, and why sellers may benefit from understanding how My Normandy fits within the wider structure of Hockney’s market. If you’re interested in collecting works from My Normandy or would like a valuation for a David Hockney print, get in touch with the MyArtBroker team.
