To the former, it was one of those immaculate Cheltenham afternoons, the earlier races unfolding in delicate sunlight beneath a hill dressed in its autumnal tweed of woodland, meadow and crag.
The show opens with five of these works from the 1990s: serene horizontal pastel strips of peach, delicate sunlight, milky blue.Yet the story of Martin's evolution as a painter begins in the second room, full of found sculptures and mesmerising little paintings of lines and dots and marks.
Similar to other photosynthetic organisms, endosymbiotic dinoflagellates rely on a delicate balance between sunlight absorbed and processed through photochemistry3, which is easily disrupted by environmental stressors.
The photosynthetic microbes form huge, unnatural blooms, which then die off and prevent sunlight from reaching delicate aquatic ecosystems at greater depths.
But you won't see the Sun's delicate outer atmosphere during this partial eclipse: there's still too much sunlight around.
It is a delicate balance of wet and dry, of sunlight and powerful sun rays, which makes weather so enjoyable in spring, when the conferences I attended there were held.
It was an order intended to protect their delicate pigments from the fading effect of direct sunlight, and despite the subsequent invention of more sensitive lighting, it's now felt that observing the tradition preserves the sense of occasion.
Even if you didn't know this, you would sense the great convergence of individual elements, all pieced together, all joined with nuts and bolts and delicate welding that looks like silver stitching in the rainy sunlight.
Much less dramatic examples of the same optical effect can sometimes be seen as sunlight passes through patches of lower, common cloud like the delicate wisps of ice-crystal streaks, known as cirrus.
We think sunlight is the best disinfectant". ● Hollywood studios face an especially delicate problem, because the Chinese box office is so important to their bottom line.
At brunch, when the front wall of windows lets in a flood of sunlight on even the gloomiest spring morning, scrambled eggs, golden and delicate, are accompanied by a hearty ragout laden with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.
