Alan Davie and David Hockney

Eleanor Clayton is a Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield, was previously Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, and has published widely on British modern and contemporary art.Helen Little is an independent curator and researcher with a special interest in 20th-century and contemporary British art. As an assistant Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, London, she organised numerous exhibitions and displays including David Hockney (2017), Frank Auerbach (2015) and Alan Davie (2014). As well as conducting doctoral research on the art of Alan Davie, she is currently organising an international touring exhibition of Tate's David Hockney collection.

• Foreword, Simon Wallis; 'Love Painting - Painting Love: The Early work of Alan Davie and David Hockney', Helen Little; 'Sing me the Universal: Poetry and Paint', Eleanor Clayton; Interviews, Rachel Stratton; Timeline; Acknowledgements; Picture Credits; Index

'The two artists are rightly given equal billing here, with Davie’s vibrant, intuitive, improvisational and painterly pictures in dialogue with the touchingly personal, autobiographical and sexually charged works of the early 1960s through which Hockney first found his voice as a modern artist.’