About the Work

Drawing Room with Tiger presents a carefully composed interior inspired by a room in David Hockney’s Los Angeles home, where colour, pattern, and line create a space that feels both structured and vividly alive. The walls are adorned with drawings, turning the room into a site of reflection on image-making itself.

Through the windows, a saturated landscape unfolds—mountains, a setting sun, and a swimming pool rendered in bold, graphic colour. At the edge of this exterior space, a tiger appears, though its form suggests something closer to sculpture than animal, hovering between object and presence. This ambiguity introduces a quiet tension between the domestic and the imagined, the observed and the constructed.

The work moves fluidly between interior and exterior, art and environment, where the act of looking becomes layered and self-referential. As with the wider series, the painting explores how spaces—both real and invented—can hold moments of stillness, curiosity, and subtle transformation.