One of the great thrills my life as an artist was discovering the work of David Hockney.  By the early 1990’s, I was just a teenager discovering the art world in books but I knew instantly that I could relate to Hockney’s work because of his use of color. Those art books that I poured through in my high school library were my connection to the art world because back then, all computers had dial up modems and you couldn’t access information about an artist as easy as you can today.  Like my appreciation of art by Henri Matisse, I’ve followed Hockney over the last 30 years and have not…