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I'm pleased to announce that my interview with David Stone on the Perception of Landscape is now available to listen to on my Podcast channel, and via Soundcloud using the link below. We cover a variety of topics including the Romanticism, Capability Brown, Helen Allingham, Turner, JS Lowry and of course, Constable. A transcription of the conversation is available as a pdf below.
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Back in 2018 I was lucky enough to be asked to record a fascinating and insightful talk by John E Thornes at The Boat House Gallery at Flatford.
Professor John Thornes is a professional academic meteorologist, that has written extensively on John Constable's skies and in this talk discusses ways of reading the paintings based upon Constable's depiction of clouds and other weather phenomenon. To Constable the sky was "the keynote", the "standard of scale" and the "chief organ of sentiment" in landscape painting but how much meteorology did Constable understand? John discusses why the sky plays such an important part in Constable's most famous representation of British landscape, The Hay Wain. Tune in below. As part of my interest in how we perceive the landscape I have started to have conversations with people that work in or make work about the landscape.
The first of such was with artist David Stone, a painter and PhD student from Colchester. We discussed the role of artists in depicting the landscape, the role of the Romantic Movement, Capability Brown and his blurring of the lines between garden and landscape, Luke Turner’s ‘Out of the Woods’ and much more. For the second conversation I revisited my childhood landscape, and although I didn’t call it that when I was younger, I spent a lot of time outside playing with my friends, building dens and setting fire to stuff. I also spoke to my mum for an hour about how our family members have always moved to new places in search of work and a better life, my parents decision to move from inner city London to a semi-rural dead end road to bring up their family and a variety of lifestyle choices that shaped how I could navigate my local environment. These interviews will be released soon so please keep an ear to the ground for announcements. |
AuthorField notes from Stuart Bowditch, an independent field recordist working on Constable Ambisonic. Archives
July 2025
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