The search for inspiration and subject matter can require the artist to travel far and wide, as was the case with Turner, and this can be one of the attractions of having landscape as your subject. But for others like Wyeth, and to a certain extent Constable, a lifetime’s inspiration abounded within a few square miles of the places they lived. These images often have a heightened degree of resonance not only to the artist themselves but also to the onlooker, so much so that in Constable’s case the area of Suffolk around where he worked became affectionately known as Constable country.
Not all of us have beautiful stretches
