'Context' - A Blog
Distracted by Figures in a Landscape
29/01/2021
How the single figure of a person in a landscape can distort our perception entirely. ...moreThe Poor and the Parish Boundary
22/01/2021
When the Poor Laws meant that a parish boundary really mattered ...moreThe Difficulties of Light, Dark and Parish Boundaries
15/01/2021
A voyage around a parish boundary to show the difficulties of keeping track of tonal values in a painting. ...moreThe Best of Winter’s Light
08/01/2021
Why the quality and form of light matters to artists (and all of us?) ...more
A Figure of the Future in the Landscape
24/12/2020
How much stranger is it, if a figure ‘in our mind’s eye’ in a landscape is our self? ...moreA Figure from the Past in the Landscape
18/12/2020
How art mediates a link between the passing of time in a place ...moreShaped by a Landscape
11/12/2020
How the author D.J. Williams became shaped by and inextricably linked with a landscape ...more
The Start of a Thing
20/11/2020
It surprises me how much I like the results of the first few hours of painting... ...moreThe Childlike Joy in Painting
13/11/2020
The start of a new painting is a brilliant thing... ...more
