In spring 2026, London finds itself at the centre of renewed attention around one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, David Hockney. The major exhibition A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting at the Serpentine North Gallery brings audiences face-to-face with Hockney’s latest explorations of perception, time and the rhythms of nature. Timed to coincide with this landmark show, Andipa Editions presents a complementary exhibition of more than 20 Hockney prints across its Knightsbridge gallery and online platform, offering collectors and admirers a deeper engagement with the artist’s enduring legacy.
Together, the exhibitions demonstrate the remarkable breadth of Hockney’s practice, from monumental digital landscapes to the iconic printed works that have shaped his reputation for over half a century.
A monumental year in Normandy
At the heart of the Serpentine exhibition is Hockney’s monumental frieze A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a panoramic work stretching over 90 metres in length. Created on an iPad during the isolation of the 2020 lockdown, the work traces the changing seasons around the artist’s home in Normandy, capturing the slow progression from spring blossoms to winter frost.
Inspired partly by historical narrative artworks such as the Bayeux Tapestry and Chinese scroll paintings, the composition unfolds horizontally, inviting viewers to walk alongside it as though moving through time itself.
The effect is immersive. The continuous landscape wraps around the gallery space, encouraging visitors to slow down and observe subtle shifts in colour, light and atmosphere. Rather than focusing on precise detail, Hockney’s digital mark-making relies on energetic lines and bold colour contrasts, evoking the sensation of looking rather than the illusion of photographic realism.
Alongside the frieze, the exhibition includes ten new paintings completed in 2025, five portraits and five still lifes. These works depict members of the artist’s close circle, including family members and carers, often arranged around a recurring motif of a checkered tablecloth. The compositions highlight Hockney’s continuing fascination with the relationship between abstraction and representation, reinforcing his long-held belief that all figurative painting ultimately exists as an abstract arrangement on a flat surface.
Now in his late eighties, Hockney continues to experiment with technology and visual perception, demonstrating a restless curiosity that has defined his career since the early 1960s.
A legacy of innovation
Hockney’s influence on contemporary art is difficult to overstate. Emerging from the British Pop Art scene in the early 1960s, he quickly gained international recognition for works that combined bold colour, innovative perspectives and a distinctly personal iconography.
From his Californian swimming pools to his multi-canvas landscapes and photographic collages, Hockney has repeatedly challenged conventional ideas of how images can represent space and time. In recent decades he has embraced digital tools, from fax machines in the 1980s to iPads in the 2010s, treating technology not as a replacement for painting but as another extension of drawing.
The Serpentine exhibition demonstrates how this experimental spirit continues to shape his work. Even in digital form, Hockney’s images remain rooted in the act of looking; a process he has often described as the foundation of all art.
Andipa Editions: celebrating a 20-year's of Prints
While the Serpentine exhibition offers a glimpse into Hockney’s most recent artistic thinking, the presentation at Andipa Editions highlights another crucial aspect of his practice: printmaking.
Andipa has long championed Hockney’s work, developing a close relationship with the artist and his editions over many years. Andipa's latest exhibition brings together more than twenty Hockney prints available both in the Knightsbridge gallery and online, providing collectors with the opportunity to engage directly with works that represent key moments in the artist’s career.
This year also marks a milestone for the gallery, twenty years since its first dedicated Hockney exhibition in 2006. That landmark show was the first to present all twelve of Hockney’s iconic swimming pool works together, offering a rare insight into the artist’s creative process and the development of one of the most recognisable motifs in modern art. The exhibition was widely praised, with The Times noting that it “provided a wonderful insight into Hockney’s creative processes.”
Printmaking and the Hockney vision
Printmaking has always been central to Hockney’s artistic language. From early etchings inspired by literature to later lithographs and digital prints, the medium allowed him to explore narrative, colour and experimentation in ways that complemented his paintings.
In many respects, prints have served as laboratories for ideas that later appeared in larger works. They reveal the artist’s fascination with perspective, storytelling and the act of drawing itself. For collectors, prints also offer a unique opportunity to own a piece of Hockney’s visual world in a format that remains accessible yet historically significant.
The selection presented by Andipa reflects this diversity, spanning different techniques and periods of the artist’s career while demonstrating the consistent clarity of his visual language.
A dialogue across London
Seen together, the exhibitions at the Serpentine and Andipa form a compelling dialogue between past and present. At the Serpentine, visitors encounter Hockney’s most recent reflections on time, nature and perception. At Andipa, they discover the graphic works that helped shape his artistic identity and continue to inspire collectors around the world.
Both exhibitions also reaffirm Hockney’s enduring optimism. Throughout his career he has insisted that art should celebrate the act of seeing and the beauty of the everyday. an idea that resonates strongly in A Year in Normandie, where the simple progression of seasons becomes a profound meditation on time.
For London audiences, the moment feels particularly special. With a major institutional exhibition just a short distance from a gallery dedicated to his prints, the city offers a rare opportunity to explore the full spectrum of Hockney’s creative vision.
Visitors interested in experiencing this dialogue firsthand can view the exhibition at Andipa’s Knightsbridge gallery or contact the gallery to arrange a private tour or view a specific artwork. Together with the Serpentine presentation, it provides a timely reminder of why David Hockney remains one of the most influential artists of our time.
