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David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France. What has emerged in this heartfelt series is an absorbing and interesting pattern of visual meditations on, as the title has it, the arrival of spring (Normandy 2020). Hockney has also been enthused by the iPad. Engineers from Apple refined digital brushes for the artist, and he also discovered new layers of colour and a wider spectrum of digital colour, particularly in the greens, which intrigued and delighted him, encouraging experiment.