Hockney’s fairytale etchings 
to go on display at workshop

The exhibition – which starts on Saturday at the workshop on Huddersfield Road, Mirfield – focuses on Bradford-born Hockney’s passion and skill as a printmaker.

It features 31 individual etchings that Hockney drew directly on to copper plates between May and November 1969 to illustrate Grimms’ Fairytales. Hockney chose six from the 220 stories collected by the Brothers Grimm.

A spokesman for the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, said: “Hockney selected those which challenged his imagination to give visual form to the oddities of narrative and supernatural elements in them. He was intrigued by the psychological strangeness of the tales, the relationships and motivations of the characters, and many of his interpretations are almost arbitrarily personal in approach.

“These prints bear all the characteristic qualities of David Hockney’s art – a strong interest in story telling and the interaction of human emotions, the fascination of conveying the supernatural and the psychological in visual terms, and the delight in exploring new ranges of technique with which to set down his perceptions.”

The exhibition will run until June 29.