Image by David Hockney
David Hockney, the famous British artist, has been painting landscapes of a small forest over the past year. Located near his home in Yorkshire, he found the two hundred year old copse at a crossing of two roads and set out to paint it in each of the four seasons. He depicted it in its full glory in the summer and then again in the autumn.
But when he turned up to begin work on a spring picture he discovered that it was gone. Describing it as “a massacre”, all that remained was stumps and stacks of branches littered around the empty field….