In these and other paintings, he reduced the shapes
of mountains, shoreline,
trees, lakes and clouds, always parallel to the
picture plane, to their essentials for an austere,
monumental effect.
In 2007, Bigger
Trees Near Warter - a
monumental - scale view
of a coppice in Yorkshire, and Hockney's largest ever
picture, measuring a massive 15 feet by 40 - feet - appeared in the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition.