The CLA president chooses a magical landscape.
Mark Tufnell on his choice of The Avenue at Middelharnis by Meindert Hobbema
‘I have always been keen on landscapes, but this one shows how avenues can be used to draw one’s eye right into the picture. Then you pick up the church on the left, reaching up into the sky and to the heavens with the birds circling in the clouds.
‘On further inspection, you notice the gardener pruning the box trees and a couple…
