'Rocky Shore' watercolour by artist Winslow Homer, Bermuda, 1900. From the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

'Rocky Shore' watercolour by artist Winslow Homer, Bermuda, 1900. From the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

World Watercolour Month is the perfect excuse to get creative. Sure, you might not be able to paint something as iconic as Winslow Homer’s ‘Rocky Beach’, shown here, but all you need is a set of watercolour paints to whip up a unique landscape of your own. Art, after all, can be a cathartic form of expression. Homer’s ‘Rocky Beach,’ created in 1900, depicts a coastline in Bermuda, where the American painter spent much time in his later years. It’s part of the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, which contains more than 450,000 works of art and is the fifth largest art museum in the United States.