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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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 →