I went to the English watercolour exhibition at the Tate Britain. Two pictures caught my eye.

The first was Edward Burra’s “Mexican Church”. It is all in black and gold with despairing, black-clad women around a suffering crucified Christ.

My kind of religion is summed up by another picture in the exhibition. It is Samuel Palmer’s “A Dream in the Apennines”. The colours are warm. A beautiful girl looks across a darkening valley to a sunlit city.

The watercolours give the picture a dreamlike quality.