Geordie Greig, who was close to David Hockney for more than 50 years, interviewed him countless times, sat for him and drove round the Hollywood Hills with him, pays tribute to his witty and wonderful friend

Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.

He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David…

British artist David Hockney's paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, from carefree 1960s California to the bucolic landscapes of his native Yorkshire.

Capturing the azure swimming pools and lithe, tanned bodies of LA to the Yorkshire fields of his youth, Hockney was one of the most prolific and revered artists of his generation

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of celebrated artist David Hockney – whether you met him, or appreciated his work

Ceaselessly inventive painter whose best known works were inspired by the light and colour he encountered in 1960s California

His career spanned London's swinging '60s, the counter-culture of 1970s Los Angeles and the bucolic calm of springtime in Normandy. David Hockney was a master painter of portraits…

Geordie Greig, who was close to David Hockney for more than 50 years, interviewed him countless times, sat for him and drove round the Hollywood Hills with him, pays tribute to…

The beloved artist has died at the age of 88 - I have known him since I was 11

Artists and cultural figures celebrate the great Yorkshire painter who could ‘make teabags and toothpaste glamorous’ – with a poem from a fellow Yorkshireman

From the daily newsletter: what art meant to Hockney—and what the artist meant to art.