Man for all seasons: Hockney’s new exhibition of Yorkshire landscapes knocked up on an iPad

David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture features large-scale works depicting landscapes from across the Yorkshire Wolds, many of which have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy.

The exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until April with visitors being recommended to book in advance to be able to enjoy Hockney’s latest work.

The Bridlington-based artist said: “It is not a retrospective show. There is a great deal of new work.

“The Royal Academy came to me to ask if I was interested in doing a show of the work I was doing in Yorkshire. When they came to me three or four years ago most of what is going to be in it didn’t exist.”

He added: “They were taking a chance on whether I could produce something good. I was taking a chance on could I? But I believed I could,” he added.

Hockney has said he was confident that the exhibition was fresh and contained new ideas about pictures, including the use of the camera.

The show will include his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which will be displayed on multiple screens. Paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire countryside, such as Garrowby Hill and Sledmere, are also among the exhibition, which, it is hoped, could boost tourism to the area as visitors to the Royal Academy could be encouraged to see the landscape which has led to so many of his recent works.

Hockney has been working with tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire on a Yorkshire art trail which includes the villages of Warter and Thixendale as well as the Wolds, Salts Mills and Bradford .