A BIG MESSAGE - CONVERSATIONS WITH DAVID HOCKNEY

Compiled from a decade and a half of conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, it reflects a period in which Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to his native East Yorkshire. Their exchanges communicate the immense delight and inspiration that Hockney finds in the changing seasons and natural splendours of this sparsely inhabited corner of England a delight that is, in the words of Margaret Drabble, an invitation to us all to look better, see better, enjoy more.