Clare Matterson is the new director-general of the Royal Horticultural Society
I started my love affair with Suffolk in my thirties–falling not only for its big skies and shifting light, but also the textures and colours across shingle, sand, it captured what I had grown not only to love, but also to need, as respite from the city. The layering of colour and the strong lines are strangely representational of the mix of sky, water and land encountered on remote walks. The artist, Martin Battye, grew up in Suffolk, so I can only imagine that these landscapes are part of his being, giving him an uncanny ability to transfer to them canvas
