by Laura | 26 January 2026
The days are getting slightly longer and the very early snowdrops have been out for some weeks now. Then suddenly they are all there and we are turning the corner. So familiar and welcome, but not a native apparently, the story is they arrived from central and eastern...
by Laura | 28 January 2025
… you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Flowers from the garden in mid-January, on a day of wind and tempest and pure blue skies in between. With this photograph, William Morris came to mind, a hero for putting so much meaning into a few life...
by Laura | 22 December 2023
These two paintings date from 1873 and 1874, when Renoir was just 32 years old. In a gallery full of wonderful paintings, they just knock you over. The picture of ‘Lilies in a Jar’ by Matthew Smith, an English painter who studied with Matisse in Paris,...
by Laura | 31 December 2022
Here I am looking small and insignificant in front of one of Monet’s enormous canvases in their gallery in Paris. The two close up photographs show his magician’s skill in painting at this scale and his complete mastery of colours. And these were painted in great...
by Laura | 21 December 2021
The sun trying very hard to get through. Misty, mizzley, damp, cold, but completely inspiring. A magical moment of the year. One of my most favourite days and everywhere is sea lavender and thrift to come and seagulls and seals now. A world of promises for the year...
by Laura | 21 February 2018
The days are lengthening fast and after an inspiringly beautiful walk in Suffolk I feel that winter is behind us. Even after it has held it’s grip for many weeks, there is so much beauty to be found including the outlines of our magnificent native oaks, pines...
