This artist-described “very, very, very new” painting marks the latest development in Hockney’s dedication to reverse perspective in paint. In this canvas, he reimagines the traditional still life painting: a vibrant bouquet of red roses on a table disrupts conventional planar perspective, introducing multiple vanishing points within a single picture. The result is an enveloping pictorial space that brings us closer to the lived experience of perception. Crucially for the artist, the composition reflects the visual impact the bouquet had on him – its abundant scale creating an impression that would be lost through traditional Western perspective.

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.