Yesterday I went to the Sargent and the Sea exhibition in one of my favourite galleries - The Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/sargent-and-the-sea/

It's a wonderful exhibition, with some of his most dramatic seascapes in oils. There were also lots of sketches, scrapbooks and studies for some of the paintings. One whole room focused almost entirely on The Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878, with sketches and oil-painting studies of the people in the painting. There were also some fantastic watercolours of boats and the canals in Venice.

I came away feeling very inspired.