This artist-described “very, very, very new” painting marks the most developed stage yet in Hockney’s dedication to ‘reverse perspective’ in paint. In this recent canvas, Hockney offers a new play on the traditional still life painting. The colourful interior scene of red roses on a table disrupts planar perspective and engineers multiple vanishing points in a single picture, bringing us closer to the lived experience of perception.

David Hockney became known as a central figure of British art in the 1960s and continues to be widely celebrated as one of the most influential artists of our time. For decades, Hockney has observed that traditional linear perspective in art and photography doesn’t reflect how humans actually see: we have peripheral vision, we move and we constantly generate multiple viewpoints. Viewing is therefore not static, but dynamic and experiential. It’s not an inversion of perspective that interests Hockney, but an expansion of the possibilities of representation.