Designs Glyndebourne Festival Opera production sets and costumes for The Rake's Progress.

Returns to Los Angeles. Begins working extensively with photography makes large scale lithographs.

Reads The Man with the Blue Guitar, by Wallace Stevens and makes a suite of twenty etchings to illustrate this theme.

Designs Glyndebourne Festival Opera production sets and costumes for The Magic Flute.

Makes Los Angeles his permanent residence. Makes lithographs and series Paper Pools, made with handmade paper pulp at Tyler Graphics in Bedford Village, New York.

Designs Metropolitan Opera ‘Triple Bill’, sets and costumes for Parade, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, l'Enfant et les Sortileges.

Travels to China with Sir Stephen Spender & Gregory Evans, May-June. Designs Metropolitan Opera sets and costumes for Le Sacre du Printemps, Le Rossignol, Oedipus Rex, and Paid on Both Sides.

Begins to study Chinese scrolls and reads George Rowley’s Principals of Chinese Paintings designs sets for the ballet, Varii Capricci.

Makes “Moving Focus” multi-colored lithographs at Tyler Graphics in Bedford Village, New York.

Designs cover and forty pages for the December 1985 issue of French Vogue magazine.

First home made prints created on photocopiers. Designs and publishes a catalogue of home made prints to accompany his gallery exhibitions. Completes Pearblossom Hwy., 11-14th April 1986 photocollage which is the culmination of his experiments with photography.

Designs the Los Angeles Music Center Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde. Designs catalogue to accompany drawing exhibition at Loyola Marymount University, L.A.

Writes, directs and is featured in the film A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or Surface is Illusion But So is Depth, produced by Philip Haas.

Creates twenty-four original pages for his book, David Hockney: A Retrospective. Creates original prints for local, national, and international publications in connection with his major retrospective.

Returns to painting, concentrating on seascapes, potted flowers, and portraits of his family and friends.

Makes drawings and transmits them through his AT&T and Canon laser fax machines. Makes multi-page fax pictures (up to 144 pages) utilizing his black & white laser office copy machine.

Works at Tyler Graphics Ltd. on six new prints. Makes color laser printed photographs from his vacation snaps of Alaska and England. Begins a series of oil paintings of the Santa Monica mountains. Experiments with a still video camera taking full length portrait pictures of friends and family. Designs sets and costumes of Puccini's Turandot with Ian Falconer , for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera. (performances scheduled for January 1992 and October 1993).