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Writer, lover of books, music, art, classic films, sci-fi, nature, animals, history, most sports. Humanitarian. Luton Town fan. Websites: https://www.paulrance.com https://www.booksmusicfilmstv.com And YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@paulrance59

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

Instead of raising a glass of what you fancy to a bigoted trillionaire shit who is damaging the world, raise it to a man who gave the world something good. RIP David Hockney. Enjoy David's work on his own website here: www.hockney.com/home

'Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011'. If you're feeling down I think this David Hockney painting will work as a pick-me-up. Stunning. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c...

My favourite David Hockney painting - and the title amused me because my maternal grandparents were Mr and Mrs Clark, my Grandad's name was Percy and they loved cats. Percy is the white cat in the painting. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

Australia 0 for 3 against Bangladesh earlier today. First time the Aussie men's cricket team has ever been 0 for 3. They've recovered a bit. www.wisden.com/cricket-news...

Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88. He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.