CHARLESTON IN FIRLE, EAST SUSSEX is currently hosting an intriguing new exhibition of David Hockney’s early drawings. Once home to painter Vanessa Bell, Charleston, in the heart of the South Downs, became the country base for many of the Bloomsbury Group, some of the 20th century’s most innovative collection of writers, thinkers and artists.
It’s surely the ideal place to view the work of one often considered our greatest living artist, a man of versatile, eclectic talent who takes perennial delight in experimentation. As Hockney recently recalled on The South Bank Show, “From about eight
