Richard's Field Sketches of the Museo de Bella Artes

"Following my visit to the Álvaro Siza archive exhibition in Madrid, I was inspired to undertake a few field sketches of my own on recent travels.

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During my recent visit to Seville, I visited the Museo de Bella Artes. Known as the most important fine art museum in Seville and Andalusia, with one website saying it is the 2nd most important museum in Spain.

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Surrounded by Spanish masterpieces from the Golden Age of Sevillian painting, I picked up the sketchbook and started to capture the top floor of the museum (architects never truly rest!).

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Sketching is a way of slowing down and really seeing the space: how light interacts with it, the shifting in scales from room to room, and seeing how visitors interact and use the space. A quick sketch can capture a sense of place that photographs can miss.

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Sometimes inspiration doesn’t always come to us at the drawing table; it can be found in the quiet corner or the intricate detailing found on the walls and ceilings of a museum. Each moment feeds into our own creative process in subtle but lasting ways."

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- Richard Coutts via LinkedIn