约翰•康斯特布尔是最伟大的英国天气画家之一。他对天空的描绘是他所有的风景画中必不可少的组成部分，从**的作品如《干草车》和《从草地观看的索尔斯堡主教堂》到他对云的无数研究（画在《汉普斯特荒野》上），在这样的作品中——不断变化的天空下的风景完全消失了，他对天空的描绘达到了顶点。康斯特布尔有一本记录天气的日记，他对天空有着无穷无尽的痴迷。

由研究约翰•康斯特布尔作品的顶尖权威Mark Evans写作的《康斯特布尔的天空》表现了这位画家对天空的痴迷，汇集他职业生涯中对英国天气描绘。这本书将吸引广大的博物馆参观者和艺术爱好者，以及正在练习风景画且渴望学习新技能——通过研究英国有史以来流行时间最长的画家之一的作品——的画家们。

John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings in which the landscape beneath the ever-changing sky is completely absent.

Constable kept a weather diary and was endlessly fascinated by the sky. In a letter written in 1821 to friend John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, Constable commented, ‘That landscape painter who does not make his skies a very material part of his composition, neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aids ... It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.’

Written by Mark Evans, a leading authority on the work of John Constable, Constable’s Skies captures the artist’s fascination with the sky and brings together his depictions of the English weather from throughout his career. It will appeal to a broad readership of museum visitors and art lovers, as well as practising landscape painters keen to learn new skills by studying the work of one of the most enduringly popular English artists of all time.