Lunch with the FT: David Hockney

FT.COM: David Hockney does not do restaurants. “Even before they banned smoking,” he says, puffing pointedly on a Camel cigarette, “I had stopped going. Once you’re deaf, you’re not too keen on a crowded room – it all sounds like one big bang.”

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He has drawn recent portraits with computer software, using a Wacom graphic tablet and tablet pen, producing inkjet prints that can be physically reworked by hand; these are the subject of next month’s London show Drawing Inside a Printing Machine. One depicting Celia’s granddaughters Lola, Tilly and Isabella – made while the girls watched a DVD on a baby-white chaise longue – has the snapshot spontaneity of a photograph but the fluid lines, a composition interrogating their relationship, and a nonchalant loveliness, characteristic of Hockney’s best portraits.

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