England on Fire: A Visual Journey through Albion's Psychic Landscape. Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Design and Production Awards

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Ms Maceikaite said they were "very anxious" about their home, adding: "When you look on a camera when it shows you from the sky it just freaks you out." I haven't even seen the exceptional category being used in the times I've looked at the Wildfire Index before," Kathryn Brown, The Wildlife Trust's director for climate action, told PA news agency. TM: We’re currently living through interesting times – do you see this being reflected in contemporary English art? Four engines to a grass fire over an area of about one hectare (2.5 acres) of woodland and undergrowth on Chapel View in Croydon

Over 34 locations exceeded the UK's previous temperature record of 38.7C from 2019, according to the Met OfficeBlazes broke out across England on Tuesday as temperatures surged to a historic high of 40.3C, capping two days of extreme heat that scientists warn is 'a wake-up call' for the climate emergency. One regional service said the number of open fires could have tripled this week, while the Met Office warned that most of England was at exceptional risk. SE: Oh yes. Things like nursery rhymes and fairy tales are really scary, so dark. They are in every culture, but here it just permeates everything. Take scarecrows, again other countries have them, but British scarecrows, they are terrifying! SE: Well I wanted it to be a circular narrative, where it starts in darkness and kind of ends in light. It begins with the primal, the landscape and what shaped it. It looks at the natural landscape and the eerie aspects of that like ghosts and mythical creatures. And the way the landscape may have been formed by supernatural forces. Once we've done that we'll be able to give an accurate picture of exactly the incidents we've attended, how many homes have been affected and if there have been any casualties."

It's still set to be a tropical night in some places, but will feel slightly fresher than last night for many. The fire has caused further delays, with Essex Fire Service revealing that it dealt with 130 incidents between 8am and 11pm yesterday. What does this mean for other long-term predictions, including some that suggest 40C would be happening every 3-4 years by 2100 ? The London Fire Brigade was also fighting two separate fires in the Shirley Hills near Croydon on Tuesday afternoon with huge plumes of smoke rising up into the sky over the wooded area. Video caption: UK heatwave: wildfires filmed near Bedford UK heatwave: wildfires filmed near BedfordHe still uses that as it was what he first started painting with. It gives all his paintings a weird spin. They’re of the wastelands and playgrounds of Coventry. These are the most humble places, suffering from austerity. Some of the paintings are like William Blake’s. I doubt he’s religious, but they’re visually intense. That kind of tradition of artists like Blake or Turner who would have these luminous landscapes with angels and gods, that continues with a lot of modern art. George Shaw. Scenes from the Passion A Few Days Before Christmas (Tile Hill, Coventry). Credit: Cincinnati Art Museum