Paul Bailey, 53, originally grew up in Brentwood in Essex with family ties to Suffolk and other links to Norfolk.<\/p>\n
Working as an abstract landscape artist, he says Constable is still “very influential” to many people today.<\/p>\n
“He is probably the most famous landscape painter out of the UK,” he adds.<\/p>\n
Bailey also believes Constable’s work, especially The Hay Wain, is “quintessentially English” which has captured people’s imaginations across the world.<\/p>\n
The simplicity in the landscape in many of Constable’s works has also drawn people in, he notes.<\/p>\n
“It’s capturing the light; the light is very special.<\/p>\n
“East Anglia, because it’s relatively flat you don’t get enclosed by mountains and stuff like that, so the sky plays such an important part and as you’re painting a very kind of potentially uninteresting landscape, capturing the light is so important and the drama of the sky as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Bailey, 53, originally grew up in Brentwood in Essex with family ties to Suffolk and other links…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-501425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}