I read and loved Unquiet Landscape by Christopher Neve so was very excited to read this. This is a series of imagined snapshots of artists. Neve, in his Seventies himself, is drawn to imagine their later lives and their last paintings. Each essay is sandwiched by Neve's own writing about living through the COVID lockdowns and the pandemic. I don't think I knew enough about the artists and the paintings to make the best of this. There are a series of small colour plates of the paintings in question to give you a flavour of what Neve talks about. My issues were that I wasn't very fond of any of the painters he chose to write about with the exception of Gwen John. And Neve clearly knows so much about them it's a bit like reading a letter sent between two people you know very vaguely who are on much greater terms of intimacy with each other. The bits I liked best were the descriptions of the Pandemic for him.