28 Apr Next weekend artist David Hockney’s giant work A Year in Normandy, created during lockdown, returns to Salts Mill in Saltaire but why is this artist so connected to a small town in West Yorkshire?
The answer is simple – friendship! Salts Mill was redeveloped, restored and revitalised by Jonathan Silver in the late 1980s. Silver and Hockney both attended Bradford Grammer School albeit 10 years apart – a 13 year old Silver asked Hockney to design the cover of the school...