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We’ve moved to new offices at work, and one of the things I’m enjoying most is the view. Effectively, much of the building is a huge glass box; we’re on the top floor, and it’s a bit like being suspended in the sky above the city.

Idly staring out of the window during a phone call yesterday, I recalled one of the oldest and simplest tricks in the landscape artist’s book: to put all the emphasis on the sky. Often we take the sky for granted as being that blue (or more often where I live, grey) thing above whatever our subject matter is, so shifting your horizon right down the page makes for a very fresh and visually interesting approach.