image:: Hockney/Calber
Garrowby Hill (Yorkshire) - Cerro Guadarrama (Arcicóllar) /// 40.052968, -4.033786
The view on a clear day in 1998 from the top of Garrowby Hill is breathtaking, and driving the winding road makes it even more fascinating. David Hockney's depiction of Garrowby Hill was, once again, realized from several vantage points, rather than a single static vista from the summit.
Hockney, on a trip through Castilla-La Mancha in 2025, recalled his return to Yorkshire. As he drove along dusty roads and crossed the Guadarrama River, that rural land of Spain revealed itself to him like an unexpected mirror: a distant echo of his intimate England. The landscapes, almost like siblings, led him to relive familiar emotions, as if life were once again offering him the opportunity to walk paths he had trodden before. Walking the same road again and again, living the same life twice, repeating a destiny that insists on returning, became a living experience. There, nourished by images and words that returned in English, Hockney felt a future of colors open up again, a horizon that called him to walk again, repeating with wonder the old journey.
