I always find going to the art gallery surreal. It's hard to grasp just how significant the works you are viewing are, and they're right in front of you. Some of them seem to leap off the canvas.

Two that I just loved seeing at the landscape exhibition yesterday were these (totally not done justice by digital images found on google! But anyway):

Sunlight and shadow: the Newbury Marshes c.1871-75
by Martin Johnson Heade

I love the pink clouds, and the majestic beauty of such a simple scene.



and Vincent Van Gogh's Tree Trunks in the Grass.



I just think this is an amazing painting of such a quotidian subject. His use of colour and form is astounding - it's a tree, and yet it's also just a bunch of coloured lines..