Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Painting With Light was a series of programs shown on UK TV on BBC2 in 1987. It features six artists as they explore the Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box. Production was a collaboration between the BBC and Griffin Productions.

Some of the episodes were edited and compiled and released onto Laserdisc for the North American market.

This video is a restoration of that Laserdisc version. It features four of the original programs in a compiled and edited feature.

This features David Hockney, Larry Rivers, Howard Hodgkin and Jennifer Bartlett.

I would like to thank everyone involved with the Domesday86 and ld-decode projects for their assistance in getting the highest quality video off the Laserdisc.

0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Quantel Paintbox
2:13 - David Hockney
20:34 - Drawing Portraits From Memory
27:54 - Experiments With Wider Perspectives
44:55 - Larry Rivers
1:05:17 - Howard Hodgkin
1:08:17 - Ideas For Costumes
1:09:40 - A Stage Within A Stage
1:16:43 - Jennifer Bartlett
1:27:53 - Credits