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Westminster Abbey gets stained glass window
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A stained glass window by artist David Hockney was unveiled on Wednesday amid the marble and monuments of London’s ancient Westminster Abbey. The Queen’s Window was commissioned to celebrate the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II and depicts a landscape of blossoming hawthorn trees in hues of blue, green, yellow, orange, pink and red.
The 81-year-old British artist, known for his depictions of sun-dappled Los Angeles swimming pools and wooded English hills, took inspiration from the monarch’s love of the countryside and the landscape of his native county of Yorkshire.
The window above the abbey’s north transept is a strikingly modern addition to the building where British monarchs have been crowned and buried for more than 1,000 years.
Hockney created the design on an iPad, his favorite drawing tool. The window was constructed by stained glass experts at Barley Studio in York, northern England. It’s a new medium for Hockney, who in a seven-decade career has embraced drawing, painting, printmaking, photo collage and video. Based in Los Angeles, he is arguably the world’s greatest living artist. One of his LA pool paintings is being auctioned by Christie’s in November, with a presale estimate of US$80 million. Hockney had a minor stroke in 2012, but is still working — and continues to rail against smoking bans and other governmental intrusions.
(AP)
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