<img class="alignright" title="David Hockney Exhibition" src="http://www.artinfo.com/sites/default/files/styles/613w/public/david-hockney_4.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="218" />We were really pleased that we managed to get tickets to see the David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art. It was made all the better because we were meeting up with our dear friends Tony and Jude who live in the highlands of Scotland.

We had time to catch up on the train down and then after a coffee we split up with them going to the Lucien Freud exibition whilst we tried to get into the London Aquarium however because it was half term the queues were very long so we enjoyed a stroll along the embankment and then meandered through the city until we found ourselves at the RA of A and meeting Tony &amp; Jude for lunch in the RA restaurant - very swish too.

Because we had prebooked we had no problems walking into this sell-out showing. There's always a risk of looking at some pieces of artwork and thinking I could do that but of course I haven't, probably couldn't and Hockney has with great verve and style. My personal preferences were those that depicted the actual scene but posterised the colours, as above. It was intriguing how he had visited the same Yorkshire scenes sometimes within days of each other to record varying light levels or visited at different times of the year illustrating the changes of colour and light through the seasons.

His iPad/iPhone work was good however it would have been really interesting to see how he built up the pictures from a blank screen. It should have been possible to record every "brush" stroke and then play it back as a timed activity - now that would have been fascinating.

And finally, if you haven't been to see the exhibition and you are interested in landscape art then it has to be a  "must visit".