David Hockney's trees

'Bright oil paintings of wheat fields and tree-lined country lanes ... multi-canvas vistas of woodland seen in different seasons ... watercolours of hedgerows and haystacks, charcoal sketches of copses and logs, and more than 50 colourful 'drawings', created using an iPad and printed on to paper, documenting the onset of spring along an old Roman road that runs out of Bridlington'.

Visit here and read the article; also watch the video at the Telegraph newspaper site.

What do you think about Hockney's pictures? Do you like the colours and shapes?

You could also scroll down the pictures here at the Daily Mail site. Photographs show the scenes painted by the artist matched against photographs of the site. Any comments? Does an artist have a responsibility to prettify a landscape? Do they have a responsibility to represent it as it is? What would you choose to do?