It just is, it will always be so. As soon as some threshold gets crossed or a statistic blurted out across all media platforms that the passing season has been the warmest/coldest/wettest/driest on record, thensome incredible weather pattern hits us to keep us on our toes and reaching for an extra ganzie. This morning saw […]
Millstream, Kingfisher, Constable and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
I watched the revelation on TV a few weeks ago about the discovery by a conservator of a Kingfisher in Constable’s Millstream. I was lucky enough to have helped wrap this stretcher in protective blankets before it went off for forensic examination in 2013. Before it went I archived the image in the Wolsey Art […]
I heard the news ….. Oh Boy
Last night there was a snippet of news on the BBC about Constable’s painting, ‘The Mill Stream’ having undergone restoration and conservation work. I was very lucky to have worked with Emma Roodhouse, Curator of Art at Ipswich and Colchester Museum Service as part of an internship between my second and third years at University. […]
Constable Country – Turner Sky?
I tried to make the best of the near still conditions yesterday morning, the calmest weather for over a month, to shoot some large format work at my current project locations. As with all things like this the wind or lack of it was perfect but the light at Freston Hill and Cattawade was dreary […]
Waldringfield rape and barley
At the beginning of the month I went in search of the Bowser in my earlier post. Could I find it? No such luck but a left here and a right there and suddenly before my eyes was a Constable and maybe a Monet unfolding. Out came the Toyo from the boot and the last […]