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Arts & Crafts, Burne-Jones, Industrial Revolution, Jane Burden, John Ruskin, Rossetti, William Morris

William Morris

24th September

As many young students return back to Oxford for the start of their new academic year – or arrive for the first time – we take a look at one artist who also took the same path… William Morris (1834-1896) is widely known as a multi talented figure who was not only a British textile...

Canvas, Cirrus, Clouds, Cumulus, JMW Turner, John Constable, John Ruskin, Luke Howard, Royal Academy, Stratus, Tacita Dean, Tate, Thomas Gainsborough

Clouds, a Canvas in the Sky

19th January

Clouds are mysterious and ephemeral aerosols, each one a visible mass of condensed watery vapour. It was the amateur British meteorologist, Luke Howard, who created the name clouds that became universally adopted, so becoming known as the father of meteorology. His curiosity was born from daily musings on the different shapes of clouds he...

blue horizon, Blue Verditer, cobalt blue, Goethe, Indigo, John Ruskin, luminosity, oil on canvas, pigments, Prussian blue, The Fighting Temeraire, The Royal Academy of Arts, Theory of Colours, Turner, white sails

Watching the White Sails in the Heart of the Ocean…

23rd November

“Do we dream, or does the white forked sail drift nearer, and nearer yet, diminishing the blue sea between us with the fullness of its wings?” John Ruskin on Turner In The Fighting Temeraire, it has long been presumed that Turner’s viewpoint would have been the London Embankment, watching as the famous and victorious Temeraire ship...