Water, water everywhere

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler

On a windswept bluff in West Sussex lies an artist’s glorious garden – a quiet triumph shaped by salt spray and shifting tides

Kathryn Ferry delves into 20th-century holiday habits with the help of her postcard collection

On Scotland’s western edge, the Isle of Skye is a timeless haven of windswept cliffs, dramatic landscapes, legends and enduring spirit

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault