Welcome to the 275th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists ... It makes me a better painter. How do you interact with the environment outside your studio?

Enter the house, and grab the shining map from the easel in the middle of the room. There’s also a collectible journal entry about the painter who left the treasure in a book next to the easel ...

In 1627, the painter was arrested for blasphemy and on ... In a surviving account of his method, he would only say: “I do not paint on an easel nor do I hold a brush but my panels are lying ...

Britain's great female pop art painter who was to die only four years later, performs in a short dramatic dream piece.

but also a painter determined to continue his work, as shown this time by his powerful gaze, with a canvas barely begun on the easel and the Japanese print to inspire him.

open image in gallery Painter Jack Vettriano in the Bonhams in Edinburgh as he stands beside his Winsor and Newton easel on which his early works were painted (PA) He taught himself by studying ...