Featuring a beautiful and diverse assembly of paintings by that dedicated group of artists who call themselves the Arborealists, Inspired by trees ran from June 2nd till June 13th at Burgh House in Hampstead. Many of the works - and more by the featured artists - can still be viewed online here.

Charles Duranty, creator of wondrously eccentric East Anglian landscapes that can be seen in our gallery, was a poet as well as an artist. Today he is better known for his paintings than his verse, but we have managed to track down a rare copy of what we believe to be the only published volume of his poems. It is titled Audition, published in 1954, and it has given us an idea…