David Hockney’s 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate' redefines what a landscape can be. Far from a traditional painting series, this groundbreaking body of work captures the vitality of nature through digital innovation and artistic vision. In 2011, Hockney embraced the newly released iPad to draw directly from nature in East Yorkshire. This portable, flexible tool transformed his creative process, allowing him to work en plein air with unprecedented immediacy. Over five months, he produced 94 digital drawings—refined to 51 compositions—that track the unfolding of spring along a single country road. The results are monumental. Each piece, enlarged to an impressive scale, preserves the crisp detail and luminous colour of the digital medium. From sweeping landscapes to intimate close-ups of blossoms and grasses, Hockney captures spring not as a static image, but as a living, changing experience. At a time when digital art was often dismissed, Hockney proved it could rival painting and ...