A series of six programmes
5: Ruskin - at Coniston in the Lake District
For 50 years John Ruskin dominated the art world of his time, famous for his writing on architecture, art and philosophy. Throughout an incredibly full life of travel and authorship he was drawing all the time. '... There is a strong instinct in me, which I cannot analyse, to draw and describe the things I love ... an instinct like that for eating and drinking.'
It is Ruskin's drawings that take Sir Hugh Casson to Coniston to see the collections in the Ruskin Museum and at Brantwood, the house where Ruskin lived for the last 30 years of his life.
Film cameraman IAN PUNTER Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL Produced by ANNE JAMES