Sunday Miscellany: Sun and Air, by Nell Regan

In this picture that has caught our attention, a man sits on a terrace between two women, and all three of them are looking in different directions. My friend laughs – it's as if one of them has just said something really awkward. Now we’d paint them looking down, plucking at their phones.

There’s a sumptuous light in all of these scenes we’re looking at: figures in lit summer gardens, a smell of August heat, of hot grass, somehow visible and rising.

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