Mark Evans: Constable's Skies [2018] hardback ZWWI with the 1916 Easter Rising

with the 1916 Easter Rising

aphoristic style makes his writing especially attractive as an introduction to Stoic philosophy

But that tale contains only part of the truth

which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'

and on human and animal bodies

Mark Evans: Constable's Skies [2018] hardback ZWWI with the 1916 Easter RisingJohn Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings in which the landscape beneath the ever changing sky is completely absent. Constable kept a weather diary and was endlessly fascinated by