David Hockney to reveal more than 100 new paintings of Yorkshire in Olympic exhibition

David Hockney, Britain's greatest living artist, is hoping an exhibition of more than 100 new paintings of the Yorkshire countryside will become as famous as his work in California and the Grand Canyon. 

The 74-year-old, who moved back to his native Yorkshire to work on the landscapes almost 10 years ago, has been given his own blockbuster show at the Royal Academy of Art in London.

The exhibition of 180 pictures, the vast majority new, and of Bridlington, a seaside town in east Yorkshire, are to go on show from January as part of his 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Employing a variety of mediums including water colour, oil paint, film, photography and even iPad, the work features the countryside of the Yorkshire throughout the seasons.

Mr Hockney, better known for his swimming pool scenes in California, said that he believed that his latest work was as good as anything he had done before.

"Every artist will always say that his latest work is his best," he said at the press launch of the exhibition in London.

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