David Hockney has released artwork of a landscape that inspired him, after it had been blighted by fly-tipping.
The artist issued the work, of Woldgate in East Yorkshire, after a visitor to his latest exhibition decided to visit the scene.
Dismayed by what he had seen, visitor Bob Ward took his story to BBC Look North.
When Hockney was contacted for his views, he sent the artwork, depicting the littered site in 2011.
Bradford-born Hockney, who created the art using a tablet computer, described the fly-tipping as "very sad".
He said: "Sadly, hardly anybody ever watches the arrival of spring on Woldgate.
"It is a rarely travelled road and I think for that reason, and that it's free, people leave trash on it. It's all very sad.
"The very best light on Woldgate is about 6am in the summer, with long shadows from the morning sun and again nobody sees it.
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