Under the weather: the great British love affair with clouds

Tacita Dean was so surprised to see clouds in LA, it got her drawing again. From Gainsborough to Hockney, she’s only the latest British artist to look to the skies
Tacita Dean is an artist who identifies strongly as British, while living abroad. Actually, it’s more precise than that: she identifies as English. Her latest exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery, in New York, is entitled, quoting Shakespeare, “... my English breath in foreign clouds”. At its heart is a ser