18January 2023

A bit of slap and tickle: Constable’s Brighton Paintings 1824-28, Materials and Techniques

Sarah Cove

In the 1820s, John Constable added the newly fashionable seaside resort of Brighton to his familiar motifs of Suffolk, developing striking techniques to create movement and texture in some of the most fabulous depictions of the British coast and sky ever painted.

Sarah Cove

Sarah Cove ACR has been an Accredited Lecturer for The Arts Society since 2003. Her topics cover the conservation and restoration of paintings, the materials and techniques of British portraiture and Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School. She has many John Constable titles, including the very popular 'From chocolate box to Jackson Pollock' that will change your view of Constable forever!