Well, Hockney is British, but I would consider him more of a Californian artist. I feel like if he’d stayed in the UK, his work would have been a lot different than how it evolved. And I always thought that if I had stayed on the East Coast, then it would be kind of the same. Dark greens and greys are the environment and in Mexico, LA and Athens, it’s omnipresent sun and bougainvillea and the colours are much brighter and more open than in Paris, London or New York.
