Can East Yorkshire capitalise on David Hockney’s Wolds legacy?

One business that has benefitted from Hockney’s association with East Yorkshire is The Wolds Inn, in Huggate.

As a youngster, Hockney spent several summers working the fields in the village, which Inn owner Vicky Knocker said must have “stuck” with him as he returned to paint the local landscape in his later years.

She said “the majority” of people who are staying at the pub were walkers and cyclists taking on the Wolds Way and Way of the Roses, but guests did mention Hockney.

Knocker said: “We had three guests in last night who all talked about David Hockney, the views on their travels on their bikes were relevant to the pictures that he’d painted in this area.”

She also said legend had it a young Hockney first experienced getting drunk at the pub.

She said: “Rumour has it, I think it was 1952, as a young child, he worked on the farms just outside of Huggate. And the Wolds Inn was his first pub experience where he got a little tipsy.”