John Dilnot's work Map represents Britain in the context of history and nostalgia. Here is Britain pictured like a paint chart – the evocatively titled colours are loosely configured with the real places after which they are named – such as Dover (a greyish-white, Lincoln (a forest green), Windermere (a deep blue) and Cornish Cream (the yellowish colour of clotted cream). Dilnot’s target here is the British obsession with a fondly imagined rural past. This romantic idea of country life saturates advertising, ornament and domestic design; it leads us to imagine a rural idyll that is quite divorced from contemporary reality and persuades us to buy into this illusion in our daily lives.