Yet, and here’s an irony, his genius was first recognised by the French. When The Hay Wain, the subject of this free, focused exhibition (and the third in the artist’s series of bucolic “six ...
And, like many painters, he enjoyed introducing a dash of vermilion into his compositions to create a focus for the roving eye, like the horse harnesses in The Hay Wain. By now, I was approaching ...
Simon Wain-Hobson is an emeritus professor at the Institute Pasteur, Paris, from which he retired in 2021. He and his colleagues were the first to sequence the genome of HIV, and Wain-Hobson has ...
The Colchester-based Packing Shed Theatre has created a performance celebrating The Hay Wain. The painting is based on Flatford Mill, in East Bergholt, Suffolk, which was owned by Constable's father.
Not boasting or anything but I grew up with Constable. My grandmother had a copy of The Hay Wain in her sitting room and I rather think there was a copy of The Cornfield as well. So whenever I ...