Featuring two copses, a huge sycamore tree, buildings and early flowering daffodils, this is the largest painting David Hockney has made.

It was produced on 50 canvas panels, the total area measuring 4.6 x 12.2 metres, and painted outside over six weeks in the Yorkshire landscape, west of Bridlington. The artist created a computer mosaic of the picture, enabling him to ‘step back’, albeit in a virtual space. He then took the individual panels to the site.

‘My picture is adaptable,’ he says. ‘You can split it in two and show one or both halves, or even a quarter of it. Or show the painting with two full-scale reproductions that would almost make a cloister.’

David Hockney donated this painting to Tate in 2008

This display has been devised by curator Andrew Wilson.

On display until 11 April 2010, admission is free

BP British Art Displays 1500-2009