As a photographer and artist, I love the iPhone, a lot! it is just such an amazing device for true creativity without all the usual constraints placed on you by the technologies that we almost all seem so intent in employing in our day to day professional lives.
In this sense, it makes the device incredibly ironic. Being one of the most advanced mobile pieces of technology on earth. But it is of course this incredible complexity of merged technologies that makes it so simple and so fun to use.
Creativity in your pocket 24/7...
More after the jump...
I have recently been exposed to Hockney, a truly amazing and inspiring artist/painter. I have of course seen a great deal of his work over the years. Just never had the name along side with whom to attribute the wonderful piece of work with. And as such, I feel I need to share a little of what I have recently discovered about him.
Very naughtily I have taken the following directly from the BBC. But if you click HERE, you'll be taken directly to the BBC web page.
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David Hockney has recently returned to his native Yorkshire |
In a career that has spanned five decades, artist David Hockney is still at the cutting edge of art.
The 72-year-old has embraced new technology by using his iPhone to create new works of art.
"I'm aware of the history of images. Not as art, but how images are made. I'm aware of new things happening," he told the Radio Times magazine.
Hockney also talked about returning to his native Yorkshire after living in California for over 30 years.
Digital photographs
Speaking about his iPhone work, Hockney said: "One morning recently, I made a drawing on my iPhone while I was still in bed, of flowers through the window, and the sunrise, which I could then [email] to 12 people, without it ever having been photographed or printed, and that's very new."
Hockney has also used digital techniques to paint some of his more traditional landscapes.
To get the right scale for these landscapes, he painted across multiple canvases that he then digitally photographed and pieced together on screen.
"That was the only way to see the [whole] painting," he explained.
"Then I'd take the canvases outside and work on them again. Working this way gives the painter new scope. I'm sure that if Constable or Turner had figured it out, they'd have done it too."
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David Hockney |
I'm at the time in my life when I'd actually rather just get on with my work and be left alone 
After decades in California, Hockney has returned to his native Yorkshire, living and working from his late mother's house in Bridlington.
He said the move has made little difference to his day-to-day working.
"I'm at the time in my life when I'd actually rather just get on with my work and be left alone," he said.
"I live the same as I did in Los Angeles; I don't go out much, and I spend most of the time working and reading. It's partly because of my deafness that I don't like crowds or noise. But if I was in LA, or London, I'd be interrupted too much."
His homecoming has been documented by Bruno Wollheim in his new film A Bigger Picture, to be shown on BBC One as part of Alan Yentob's Imagine… season.
In 2012, Hockney will also have his own show at the Royal Academy which will focus on his Yorkshire work.
He added: "I'm aware I've got a very good subject, and with each season, I begin to see more.
"Remember, I've been living for years without seasonal changes. I'm just happy to be living in a terrific place; a cosy, quiet little town. I couldn't ask for more, really."
Imagine... David Hockney - A Bigger Picture can be seen on BBC One on Tuesday 30 June at 2235 BST.
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At the risk of getting myself in to rather serious trouble, below are three original paintings from Hockney available for you to download. Each was painted on his iPhone early in the morning featuring some plants on his window sill. The application that he used was called Brushes and can be downloaded from the iTunes Store.
These originals were made available by the BBC for a limited period of 48 hours. But, unless I am told to remove them by the BBC, here are three that I downloaded and want to share, because I think that they are not only beautiful, but it illustrates just how amazing and versatile the iPhone platform is becoming.
Not only is the best camera in the world, the one that you have with you - for me the iPhone - But now the best canvas, paints and countless other creative toolsets can also be the ones that you have with you all the time.
The potential for creativity is expanding exponentially daily - and it's great...
Anyway, here are the paintings:
Click to open the images full size and then just save them to your desktop...
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