Samuel Palmer, self-taught English visionary painter

When I look at this artist's work, I feel I could have been him in an earlier life, or I would feel that if I believed in such things, which I don't. My response to his work seems pre-verbal, so I'll let the Tate website do the talking:

"Palmer was a key figure of English Romantic painting who represented, at least in his early work, its pastoral, intuitive and nostalgic aspects at their most intense. He is widely described as visionary and linked with his friend and mentor William Blake, though he stood at an almost opposite extreme in his commitment to landscape and his innocent approach to its imagery. He had none of Blake's irony or complexity and was inspired by a passionate love of nature that found its philosophical dimension in unquestioning Neo-Platonism."

So there you have it.