One of the extra pleasures you’ll enjoy on a Watermill creative course is the food. As well as inspired tuition, warm hospitality, beautiful accommodation and stunning locations, we offer you…
It was said of the late Prime Minister of the UK, Harold Macmillan that he liked nothing better than taking a good trollop to bed. [I’m sorry I’ll type that…
In the last six years our hidden array of photovoltaic panels has produced more than 90,000* KwH, (kilowatt hours) of electricity from the sun and saved the emission of 63…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 13. Giorgio Vasari*** Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is famous for writing the first important book on Art…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 12. Paolo Uccello*** Paolo Uccello (1397-1474) was a pioneer of the use of linear perspective, invented…
[It really is Bill writing this blog!] I never use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in my Watermill blogs, believing that la voce narrante, the narrator’s voice, should be individual and idiosyncratic:…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 11. Filippo Lippi*** There are many wonderful pictures in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a treasure…
Silently and unseen, the leaves have fallen for more than half a century in our bamboo glade between the millstream and the river, creating a cushioned pathway through the towering…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 10. Domenico Ghirlandaio*** Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) a Florentine Renaissance painter, is perhaps most famous for his…
There hasn’t been enough snow yet for skiing in the Apuan Alps near us, but I’m happy to say that my favourite online art magazine DailyArt has made up for…
A tandem bicycle, a friend, and a spark of creativity I don’t know whether you have ever been on a tandem bicycle, but in my experience, you need a good…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 9. Lorenzo Ghiberti*** The Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) made his name through the design and construction…