David Hockney (b. 1937) is not only a central figure of 1960s British art but remains, even today, one of our era’s most influential artists thanks to his unshakable devotion and boundless energy for the act of painting. To inaugurate its new Hanover Square premises, Annely Juda Fine Art has chosen Hockney’s brand-new, never-before-shown-in-Paris works under the playful title Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings not yet Shown in Paris.
The exhibition presents paintings completed in the artist’s London studio over the past six months, alongside the first full UK presentation of the series The Moon Room.
Challenging Traditional Perspective
Hockney’s latest paintings represent the most advanced stage of his decades-long commitment to what he calls “reverse perspective”. He has long observed that conventional linear perspective does not reflect how humans actually see: we do not look from a single fixed point; we move, we have peripheral vision, and we constantly generate multiple viewpoints. For Hockney, the fascination lies not in simply inverting perspective but in expanding the possibilities of representation itself.
In these new canvases, he disrupts planar perspective while depicting colourful interior scenes, designing multiple vanishing points within a single painting. This technique brings us closer to the lived experience of perception.
Technology, Light and the Spirit of Van Gogh
Alongside his prolific painting and drawing practice, Hockney has continually explored new technological possibilities in art-making: Polaroid film, photocopiers and faxes in the 1980s, and, more recently, the iPad.
The Moon Room and the iPad: The fifteen nocturnal iPad drawings of the night sky—created outside his Normandy studio across the seasons and now brought together as The Moon Room—radiate the artist’s joy in nature. Hockney delights in the backlit iPad’s ability to capture light instantly. He recounts turning off every light in the house so he could see the moonlight more clearly, drawing these works (in which Van Gogh’s influence is palpable) with an almost impossible precision.
Even in his late eighties, Hockney refuses to stop breaking rules. Proof of his limitless creativity comes in the form of the forthcoming 90-metre-long frieze A Year in Normandy, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, which he will show at the Serpentine in London.
Artist: David Hockney
Exhibition title: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings not yet Shown in Paris
Venue: Annely Juda Fine Art, New Gallery Space, 16 Hanover Square, London
Dates: On view until 28 February 2026
Content: Brand-new paintings, experiments in reverse perspective, and The Moon Room (15 iPad drawings)
