Hockney continues to paint the spatial experience of the East Yorkshire landscape. He develops a method where he is able to work on a large scale outdoors by using multi-canvas paintings that join to form one large picture. The first exhibition of these paintings together with their earlier single and double canvas counterparts is at Annely Juda Fine Art, London in September 2006.

With the aid of digital photography his multi-canvas compositions culminate in the largest painting Hockney has ever made, comprising some 50 separate canvases that were painted outdoors and formed one giant painting measuring 4.5 x 12 meters titled Bigger Trees Near Warter that occupied a whole wall at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition where it was first shown in 2007. Following his strong interest in watercolour, Tate Britain invited the artist to curate the largest exhibition of Turner watercolours, Hockney on Turner Watercolours, that was shown from June 2007 to February2008. To coincide with the exhibition Tate Britain also exhibited a selection of five of Hockney’s latest six-part Yorkshire Landscape paintings from the Woldgate Wood series (previously included in the L.A. Louver exhibition, David Hockney, The East Yorkshire Landscape February March 2007) marking his 70th birthday. Later that year Hockney travels to Germany to see the exhibition of Edvard Munch at the KunsthalleWürth, in Schwäbisch Hall.

The subject matter of the East Yorkshire landscape in all its various seasons
continues to stimulate Hockney. It is a landscape he has known since he
was a boy when he used to work on a farm in the area during the school holidays.
In April the Arts Club of Chicago, opens the exhibition Looking at Woldgate Woods in which all the works shown were devoted to just one of the Yorkshire landscape motifs that inspired him. Hockney begins to use the camera as a means of reproduction of the multi-canvas paintings he is working in conjunction with computer assisted drawing to assist the assembly of these massive works. He develops a new way of making large format prints of the landscape motifs that he has been intensely observing, by exploring the possibilities of drawing directly into the computer and printing directly to large format inkjet prints.