Looking at the Flowers (Mini-Frame) by David Hockney

NEW FOR 2025! 

This stunning framed postcard features David Hockney's photographic drawing 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed) in an oak-look frame made of recycled polystyrene. We have produced this mini-frame  to celebrate our exhibition 20 Flowers For 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures which opened at Salts Mill on January 29th 2025 during Bradford's year as UK City of Culture.

Not one but two Mr Hockneys appear in this artwork, sitting surveying the 20 Flowers, both with backs to the camera, white-capped and blue-suited, one smoking, the other not. Of this image, Mr Hockney says:

“This is photographic but is in no way an ordinary photograph. I had been doing what I called photographic drawings giving a much more 3D effect. Ironically the only things not photographed in this picture are the flowers themselves.

The objects on the floor are all photographed in 3D, one walks round the object and then the computer makes an image that can be turned any way you want, this is why I called them photographic drawings. You can place them anywhere in the picture, so I think it’s a new kind of photography that avoids perspective. I am continuing with this research.”

Approximate dimensions: height: 22.6 cm (8.9 inches), width: 30.5 cm (12.4 inches)

Printed in Bradford, West Yorkshire and framed here too! Produced by Salts Mill, for Salts Mill. Please hang away from direct sunlight to prevent fading.

David Hockney
"25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed)"
Photographic drawing
© David Hockney
assisted by Jonathan Wilkinson