Vespers

Vespers is a luminous hardback book showcasing the vast new collection of 559 watercolour poppies by British painter and architectural artist Brian Clarke, featuring a preface by the artist and an introduction by renowned writer and art critic Robert Storr.

Taking its title from the Greek hespera meaning ‘evening’, the book presents a series of evening devotions that the artist started to paint in Seville in 2019, a practice that continued between the artist’s home and his studio in London, in the sombre midst of the unprecedented epidemic the world has come to endure.

This is the latest book published by HENI on the extraordinary works of Brian Clarke, following the nocturnal series Night Orchids (2016) and architectural showcases in The Art of Light (2018) and Spitfires (2020).