It's the first subject of call when we call our relatives abroad. It's the dictum of conversations up and down the country, between...

A gently sloping field, waiting for its crops to emerge. A worn cottage. A grey, battered coastline. The British landscape can be...

Landscapes have captivated us for centuries. We paint them, retreat to them on holiday, we take endless photographs of and in front of...

I’ve always painted nature. From flat watercolour animals on printer paper to my first experiment on canvas with horses (I haven’t saved...

“Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out...

It was almost three years ago, just before the global pandemic that shook our reasonably stable world apart, that I had been quietly,...

Painting what you love can be the easiest and hardest thing in the world. My paintings are more often than not inspired by great...

The climate is certainly wretched: the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys there was...