an eighteenth cartoon...'winter road'

There have been a number of rather special art exhibitions in London over the last few years – the best, however, has surely been David Hockney at the Royal Academy in 2012.  I spent nearly 20 minutes in front of the first painting, an enormous landscape of the Grand Canyon, alone; although most of the works were of places in the British Isles, capturing the four seasons in eye-popping colour.  Here’s a very quick and very humble tribute of my own.