From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when I was a student of fine art in Edinburgh in the 1970s. This is how I wanted to paint. I was in awe of the energetic brushwork, the vivid colour and the artist’s ability to […]
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