MASTER TIP

If you’re feeling uninspired about what to paint next, why not take Stanley Spencer’s lead and make the mundane beautiful? His lifelong fascination with rubbish led him to elevate household debris into the main subject matter of works such as The Dustbin, Cookham – on show in the Stanley Spencer Gallery’s current display, Delight in Nature: Stanley Spencer’s World. stanleyspencer.org.uk

Stanley Spencer, The Dustbin, Cookham, oil on canvas