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

WORKING in a stable, controlled environment is the reason most artists choose to paint at home or in a studio. Keeping canvases dry and away from the elements is a good reason for not working outdoors

THE THRILL OF LANDING IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS IS TO FIND YOU’VE SOMEHOW VENTURED OVER THE LIP OF THE KNOWN WORLD

Leah Wood became a painter by way of opening for David Bowie and sashaying down the catwalks, but Nature now lights up her artistic imagination and underpins her efforts to campaign for the environment

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

When fate handed artist Conrad Martens the chance to join HMS Beagle , he captured the flatlands of Patagonia, the wood-cloaked shores of Tierra del Fuego and the ‘castles, peaks, and pinnacles’ of the Andes with both brush and pen