The connection between nature and creativity comes in many forms. Here, artists, writers and musicians talk about the different ways in which they take inspiration from the outdoors - and share the places that fuel their imagination

Stoatally elusive

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

Using a painting to envisage a room–or record it for posterity–provides an exciting alternative to digital technology, says Arabella Youens

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers