There’s been a lot of putting brush to canvas on the box recently. Bob Ross, the Joy of Painting fellow, has hardly been off BBC4, keeping viewers comfortably happy with his skilful but stereotyped landscapes, while Sky Arts has been running a series of Portrait and Landscape Painter of the Year programmes with amateur and professional artists battling it out to keep the judges happy. So perhaps, my Loyal Readers, you may already have been inspired to pick up your palettes. But if not, here’s a suggestion for banishing those lockdown blues: get painting and unlock your inner Ravilious. Or Constable, Turner or Hockney, come to that.
My creative urges are fulfilled much more simply - by pressing the button on my camera - and I’m lucky enough to have the South Downs to help me. Thanks to the recent weather here are a few pictures that might help get your creative juices working. Don’t be shy…get out your brushes and have a go!
