Counting Sheep with an Old Romantic
The pastoral landscape is often considered to be unchaining and bucolic artworks are often overlooked as sleepy reminders of the past. And yet contemporary artists have returned time and again to the agricultural heritage of this country; exploring the relationship between the individual and place, between landscape and memory and between representing life as it really is with life as we would want it to be. These themes of representation (and the creation) of a sense of place through the recounting of landscapes and the depiction of man’s relationship with nature can be seen running through much of Edwin Young’s work.
The Artist who Became an Inspiration in Education
The proposed changes to our education system have rightly been a topic of the press recently. As it so happens, a man who spent most of his [...]
Art to Illuminate Wiltshire
As I travel from Corsham to Chippenham by bus to work at the History Centre, I often think of what past local inhabitants might make [...]
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