Love and Landscape Stanley Spencer in Suffolk Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, until March 22; Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, April 4 to November 1 Stanley Spencer’s fellow students at the Slade Scho

The first exhibition in decades to celebrate the life and work of Hampstead-based painter Donald Towner opens at the nearby Burgh House this month. Spanning the interwar and postwar years, Amongst the

England in the 18th century had no love for its landscape, preferring instead Italianate views, until George Stubbs came and decided to paint his horses true to the setting in which they lived, as Bendor Grosvenor reveals

Hedgerows once seemed a jumble to David Hockney, but a slow drive along a country lane helped him see with greater clarity and embrace ‘the infinite variety of Nature’. Martin Gayford considers the artist’s affinity for landscape

John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE’S Hambleden Valley is one of England’s true hidden gems. Bypassed by through traffic, it is a lovely spot to explore on foot or bicycle if you keep to the path beside the Hamble Brook.