David Hockney: The Moon Room

David Hockney is a British painter and printmaker renowned for his investigations of light, color, and perspective across multiple mediums. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Hockney retreated to his seventeenth-century farmhouse in Normandy, where he devoted himself to iPad painting with extraordinary productivity. Using the backlit screen as a drawing tool, he documented the moon's nightly transformations and the play of lunar shadows across his landscape, discovering in digital technology an immediacy that traditional methods could not provide. His Moon Room series represents a culmination of decades spent studying nature's ephemeral effects and demonstrates his continued formal innovation across changing materials and contexts.