Post by April Paige

David Hockney painted for 77 years and never stopped, not even at the end. He passed away on June 11, 2026, at 88. In his final months, sitting in a wheelchair and fighting a chest infection, he said the same thing he had been saying his whole life: I will never stop painting. Then he kept working until he was gone. What stays with me is the iPad. At 73, when most people are winding down, he picked up a device that did not exist when his career began and built an entirely new body of work with it. He was still curious about what he was looking at, the same as he had always been. That curiosity carried him from Bradford in the 1950s to a Serpentine Gallery exhibition running through August 2026, still introducing new audiences to his work. His life asks something of every working artist still here. What would you build if you refused to stop looking? I wrote more about Hockney's life and what it means for artists working today. Read the full blog linked in my bio. #DavidHockney  #FineArt  #ContemporaryArt  #Artblog #aprilpaigefineart