Perhaps it was appropriate that we visited Brantwood on an relentlessly gloomy day. It began hopefully as we grew closer to the house. Across the lake we could see a rainbow lighting the village of Coniston. Rainbows generally come and then fade within moments but this one remained all day, hanging in the air as if posing for a painting.
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| Morning in Spring, with north-east Wind, at Vevey -John Ruskin |
Ruskin didn't wait for still and sunny weather in which to paint:
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. John Ruskin - Modern Painters (1843-1860)
And the mantra of all who live in the Lake District:
'There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.'
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| In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin - Modern Painters (1843-1860) |
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| In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. John Ruskin |
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| To learn more from or about John Ruskin: http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/ |
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| http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/ |
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