I Need To Go Through Another Winter- David Hockney outtake 79/80

This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim.

Watch the full film here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/116394

The Annely Juda exhibition David Hockney: A Year in Yorkshire is about to open and he’s in the Gallery with his painting assistant Jean-Pierre (opening shot), his Studio Manager and Curator Gregory Evans and Sarah Holgate, the Contemporary Curator at London’s National Portrait Gallery. The space and light is perfect for the paintings (and for my camera). It’s David’s first chance to look properly at the paintings and to look back on the eleven months of painting en plein air out in the East Yorkshire Wolds. When he chats to Ian Parker, the Gallery’s principal installer, the artist pathfinders he has in mind are Constable and Monet, painters who had devoted a large part of their work to a particular patch of land, in East Suffolk and Giverny respectively.
 
By this time I had been filming with David for nearly a year, longer than he had devoted to most single projects in his career. Now he lets drop a bomb, that he's nowhere near done with painting Yorkshire yet, “not a third of the way through”. It means I've got at least another year or two of filming in front of me. My voice goes up an octave. As yet, nobody had shown an interest in my Yorkshire filming, there was no financial support and no commission on the horizon.
 
He describes a winter painting - “those big trees down near Warter, those fantastic trees that go black after it’s been raining.” – this was to be the huge 50-panel painting Bigger Trees near Warter that went on display at The Royal Academy’s Summer Show in 2007 and becomes the natural conclusion to my film, and to most of my filming.


Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, A Bigger Picture captures Britain’s most beloved painter at work. David Hockney’s return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood – outside, in all weathers, through the seasons – culminates in the largest picture ever made outdoors. It’s an inspiring story of a painter in creative dialogue with nature and photography, and a revealing portrait of Britain’s most popular and celebrated artist.

“This wonderful film … will be of lasting importance for future generations who want to understand Hockney’s art.” Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4

“Bruno Wollheim’s portrait of this forthright magus is an unqualified, life-enhancing joy from start to finish.” – The Sunday Times

“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.” – The Times, London.

“As gently hypnotic and fulfilling as one of Hockney’s own works.” – Time Out

“This impressive documentary is almost cinematic in its scope… both majestic and intimate” – The Observer

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