2006
Attends the openings of the traveling ‘David Hockney Portraits’ exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in February; at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in June; and at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in October. 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.

Painting 'en plein air' in the Woldgate Woods, 2006

Woldgate Tree, 2006

Elderflower Blossom, Kilham, July 2006

2007
Travels to Los Angeles at the end of January to open an exhibition of his 2006 East Yorkshire Landscape paintings at L.A. Louver.
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 15 x 40 feet titled Bigger Trees Near Warter that occupies a whole wall at the 2007 Royal Academy Summer exhibition where it was first shown in 2007. Following his strong interest in watercolour, Tate Britain invites the artist to curate the largest exhibition of Turner watercolours 'Hockney on Turner Watercolours' that is shown from June 2007 to February 2008.  To coincide with the exhibition Tate Britain also exhibits a selection of five of Hockney’s latest six-part Yorkshire Landscape paintings marking his 70th birthday. Returns to Los Angeles at the end of December to begin stageing rehearsals for the twenty year revival of his opera production “Tristan und Isolde” at the Los Angeles Opera.

Bigger Trees Near Warter, at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, 2007

Woldgate Woods, March 30 - April 21 2006

2008
Opens “Tristan und Isolde” at the Los Angeles Opera on January 19.
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. Gives his 50 canvas painting, “Bigger Trees Near Warter”, to Tate Britain at a Press Conference in April. Exhibits ten of the Woldgate Woods paintings,"Looking at Woldgate Woods" at The Arts Club of Chicago 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 and large format prints as a means of production of the multi-canvas paintings to assist in the assembly of these massive works. His assistant photographs stages of the paintings on location and later makes prints in the studio of the individual panels in order to view them together at a smaller size to track the development of the painting. This method allows him to work on location yet in context of the work as a whole.

Woldgate Woods, 20 November 2006

Felled Trees on Woldgate, 2008

2009
Exhibits at L.A. Louver in February and at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in May, his inkjet printed computer drawings.  Travels to Germany for the opening April 26th of “David Hockney: Nur Natur/Just Nature,” an exhibiton of over 70 large format paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and inkjet printed computer drawings at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwabisch Hall.  Returns to England to paint.  Begins editioning ‘portraits’ from his inkjet printed computer drawing series. Exhibits new paintings in a double venue show "David Hockney:Recent Paintings" at the PaceWildenstein galleries in New York, in October, his first major show in New York in over twelve years.  Nottingham Contemporary opens with “David Hockney 1960 – 1968: A Marriage of Styles” on November 14th through January 24th, 2010.

Hawthorne Blossom, Woldgate No. 6, 2009

Felled Totem II , 2009

2010