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I'll be keeping this marvellous book, whose roots are deep, whose take on Constable's history, art and life is so enlightening and whose landscapes are as alive and fresh as ever, close to me through all the seasons.--Ali Smith In this extraordinary book Susan Owens draws a multidimensional portrait of Constable, a multidimensional portrait of Constable, bringing him alive not only biographically but also meteorologically and geographically in his love of the skies above and the work-a-day love of the skies above and the work-a-day East Anglian landscape.--Martin Gayford

'I’ll be keeping this marvellous book, whose roots are deep, whose take on Constable’s history, art and life is so enlightening and whose landscapes are as alive and fresh as ever, close to me through all the seasons' - Ali Smith 'In this extraordinary book Susan Owens draws a multidimensional portrait of Constable, bringing him alive not only biographically but also meteorologically and geographically in his love of the skies above and the work-a-day East Anglian landscape' - Martin Gayford, author of Constable in Love

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Dr Susan Owens is an expert on British landscape art and a leading critical voice in the field. Her publications include The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History (2024), which was Apollo magazine's 2024 Book of the Year, Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession (2023) and Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape (2020). She was Curator of Paintings at the V&A until 2013, and was involved in the major V&A exhibition and catalogue 'Constable: The Making of a Master' (2014).

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