Did the Tour de France organizers choose Yorkshire for the first two stages of 2014 race because the county’s wide open spaces reminded them of home? I would like to think so. There is room in the huge, high landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds for some serious, long-distance cycling, with a hill or two thrown… Continue reading
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The call of the Wold – on the trail of Hockney in wide open Yorkshire
The Yorkshire Wolds is classic hidden-away England. East of York, south of Scarborough, north of Hull, it’s a back of beyond place most of us never go near, and if we do it’s generally only to dash past on the way to somewhere else. Or it was until ‘A Bigger Picture’, the exuberant 2012 David… Continue reading →
A modern master returns to his roots – Hockney’s Yorkshire Wolds
Before our very eyes an exhibition of hundreds of paintings of trees and lanes and hills and grassy banks, set in a serene, wide-open, empty corner of England not many of us know well, is becoming one of the cultural triumphs of our times. The organisers of the Royal Academy’s David Hockney exhibition, A Bigger… Continue reading →