Constable's skies - A Talk by John E Thornes

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.

Stuart Bowditch · Constable's Skies - A talk by Professor John Thornes