David Hockney urges us to escape lockdown through a pencil

The artist, who has splashed joyous spring colours over our anxieties, is on a roll, sequestered in France

David Hockney has a little advice for anyone who fancies taking up art as a lockdown hobby: take out the pencils or brushes, and put away the camera.

“I would suggest people could draw at this time,” he said from the house in Normandy where he has been sequestered since France practically closed down last month. “Question everything and do not think about photography.”

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