Gail Seekamp
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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Can you hear the drums?
In 1964, the artist David Hockney flew to Los Angeles for what he called his great move.
As the plane descended, he saw hundreds of swimming pools flash and sparkle in the valleys below.
For him, this was paradise.
He was a young painter, out, proud and ambitious.
He had escaped grey Britain for a world of light and freedom, a space to develop as an artist and as a man.
Within a week he had a driving licence, a car, a flat and a studio and so began a new chapter in a career of many reinventions and one that lasted over 70 years.
In 2018, one of his swimming pool paintings sold at Christie's for £70 million.
Not bad for a working class boy from Bradford.
His golden ticket is scholarship to grammar school, where he focused solely on art.
Once turning in a science exam paper blank, except for the line, I'm no good at science, but I can draw.
Local art school followed, then the Royal College of Art in London.
There he lived at first in a garden shed and spent every waking hour painting.
Some mocked his northern accent and he was at odds with the in-trends of pop art and abstract expressionism.
Instead, he listened to fellow student and friend R.B.
Kittaj, who bought one of his early college pieces, a drawing of a skeleton, for a fiver.
Simply paint the things you love, Kittaj advised.
Hockney did just that, and maybe that's why a Sunday Times article published in April 2020 struck such a deep chord with me.
It was in the early, terrifying days of Covid.
The piece showcased his new work, fruit trees and flowers blossoming in rural Normandy.
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