'Hero Painting'

In this painting of Salisbury Cathedral you have ludicrously gigantic wagons and huge dogs and skyscraper trees. Perspective is irrelevant.

It is the passion to make a truly poetic abstract composition - a composed work - from elements that he has observed, that he has made drawings from, watercolours from, and lift it to this beautiful, beautiful lyrical painting.

Constable, as it were, stayed in his back garden and had a true, almost a pantheistic, love of cornfields and trees and his native East Anglia. Even when he is in Dorset, even when he is doing Salisbury Cathedral, there is this palpable love of the subject matter.

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