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Democratising Constable Country
Tom discusses the challenges of creating a harmonious balance at such a popular destination with the National Trust’s Site Manager at Flatford, Simon Peachey.
By Tom Crowley
Alternative Constable
A trip to see ‘Recreating Constable’ provides the perfect opportunity to weave together conversations around the use of nature in the image making process
By Andy Corrigan
Rambling: Not Taking Footpaths for Granted
A look back at the history of rambling with some of the Sudbury Ramblers.
By Tom Crowley
With Mr Constable’s kind regards...
We discover a lasting record of an ephemeral contact
By Elenor Ling
The Good That Walking Can Do for You
In this post I join Sudbury Ramblers members Margaret and Florence to discuss the good that walking can do for you.
By Tom Crowley
Seeing Constable Differently
As we look, talk and share perspectives we see something new, something different. We reach a new understanding.
By Kate Noble
When history and science collide
Oliver Rackham used scientific observation to relate current ecology to its historic and cultural context.
By Andy Corrigan
Seek, and ye shall find
It is now easy for us to access and explore a digital ecosystem whilst, for example, we are walking through the landscape.
By Andy Corrigan
Walking the ‘Fairy-Land’
I have been thinking a lot about how people have experienced the landscape.
By Susan Owens
Photographing Constable Country
We spoke to Katie Hayward about her landscape photography and what it’s like to work with Constable breathing down the back of your neck...
By Tom Crowley
Of Constable-bows and rainbows
By walking with Constable, from Stoke-by-Nayland to East Bergholt, and augmenting the deep blue sky with Constable’s Nayland rainbow, I became part of the visual drama of Constable’s printed landscape.
By Annja Neumann
Looking After Constable Country
At Flatford Mill I recorded Dave talking about the traditional management of the landscape.
By Tom Crowley
A tale of two bridges: Part Two
The playful sense of pleasure on which Part One ended, brings me back to the intimate sensation I experienced when crossing the two rivers...
By Andy Corrigan
A tale of two bridges: Part One
When I was small there was a woodland at the bottom of our garden, its branching giants seemingly endless. I spent a lot of time perched up trees...
By Andy Corrigan
Nature in Black and White
Colour is better, surely? You wouldn’t choose to work in black and white unless you had to?
By Elenor Ling
A Meteorologist Talks Constable and Skies
On Walk A we were joined by John Thornes, a meteorologist who has been disseminating his research on Constable’s relationship with the skies.
By Tom Crowley
Creating Constable
Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, is home to a significant collection of Constable’s work that has been collected since the 1890s.
By Emma Roodhouse
Can a computer paint a Constable?
I played around with some AI tools to see if a computer can paint a Constable...
By Andy Corrigan
Constable Country
'Yes sir - this is Constable's Country!' - But what is Constable country?
By Elenor Ling
Walking Stories
Michel de Certeau, the French theorist of everyday life, argued that walking is writing.
By Caroline Bassett
Constable’s printed landscapes
In 1829 John Constable took on a young printmaker to engrave a series of prints after his own works, which would become known as 'English Landscape'.
By Elenor Ling
A bird's-eye view of Constable's landscape
In the most obvious sense, these aerial photographs are a record of a landscape in a single moment in time...
By Andy Corrigan
