Morgan Haigh, Art Historian

The second part of my walk across Cornwall is now up on Substack!

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The Saints’ Way - Part II Walking across Cornwall in the footsteps of the Celtic saints…

In memoriam David Hockney RA OM
1937-2026

🚶✒️ Link in bio! Last month I walked The Saints' Way, from coast to coast across Cornwall. It follows the ancient route that saints and merchants took connecting the Celtic nations of Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany - avoiding the treacherous journey around Land's End.

The first day of the walk is now written up on my Substack so you can read all about it via the link: https://open.substack.com/pub/morganhaigh/p/the-saints-way-part-i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1p8srj

Still tickets available for this exciting course marking 250 years of the USA through it's amazing art!
Use code 'USA250' for a discount on your booking!

‘Conceived in Liberty’: A Story of Art in the USA at The Turner House Gallery Tickets are now available for ‘Conceived in Liberty’: A Story of Art in the USA at The Turner House Gallery, Penarth on Monday 29th June 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

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📝 My latest piece on Substack (link in bio) examines the new work by the artist known as Banksy which appeared overnight in central London at the end of last month.

Famous for his radical politically charged public artworks banksy's latest piece struggles to say anything in particular about the political climate despite being an impressive piece of formal sculpture. Can a political work of art be great, even if it just looks good and doesn't say anything much??

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💻 Join me for this month's 'pay-what-you-can' online art history talk, celebrating the 250th birthday of English landscape painter John Constable!

Thursday 28th May, 7pm BST
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Born in Suffolk in 1776, Constable would go on to immortalise his particular patch of rural England in some of the most innovatively direct and honest landscape painting of the nineteenth century. Despite his acclaim today he was often rejected in England during his lifetime, even refused official recognition by the Royal Academy until late in his career. In this talk we will examine his origins in East Anglia and the times of change in which he lived. Britain was only at the beginning of its long love affair with landscape whilst at the same time seeing it transformed forever by the Industrial Revolution. To understand what today might look like peaceful, settled landscapes, one must look deep to discover the powerful emotional and political charge lying under the surface.

Today, Constable’s reputation, along with Turner, as one of the two key figures of the British landscape tradition is secure, and his influence can be seen reaching beyond our borders to any artist who meaningfully engages with nature and the natural world, but it wasn’t always so easy for the man who would become on of Britain’s favourite painters…

My latest on the new work by Banksy which appeared over-night in central London at the end of last month...

Banksy Back Again The anonymous artist's latest guerrilla sculpture shows he's really a lapdog at heart...