David Hockney

Hockney’s venture into making paper pulp works produced extraordinary results when the artist began a collaborative exploration of this new process with Ken Tyler in Bedford, Massachusetts during the 1970s. As the days went by, Hockney no longer saw paper making as a graphic medium. He developed a process where he began to ‘paint’ with his coloured paper pulp. Metal moulds were placed on coloured pulp sheets and filled with coloured papers and dyes. Hockney then ‘painted’ the surface using DIY tools such as turkey basters, brushes, and dog combs. The sheets were subsequently half pressed, squeezing out some of the water and leaving them moist enough to add further colour.