some LANDSCAPES

Sunday, March 08, 2026

Fire and Water

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Today I paid a second visit to the Tate's Turner & Constable exhibition. The Guardian  paraphrased Adrian Searle's  review  as ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

A place with a pond

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A place with a pond , in the fifth month when the rains are falling, is a very moving thing. It's deeply affecting to sit for hours on e...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Borgøya Island

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I just finished reading this wonderfully depressing novel by Jon Fosse. It is about the Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig (1830-190...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Listening to Insects at Dōkan Hill

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Utagawa Hiroshige, Listening to Insects at  D ō kan  Hill ,  from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital,  1835-1845  This is one o...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Over stones, under alders

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  At the Small Publishers Fair last year I caught a reading by John Bevis from  A Surrey Naturalist , his new collection of eighty found poe...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Deposition

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  Lucy Raven, Deposition, Dam Breach, 16, 2024 This picture, which I saw yesterday at the Lisson Gallery in London, appears to show a mount...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Mimic Pond

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This is a photograph I took on Boxing Day of Mounts Pond on Blackheath. The small mound with trees behind it is now called Whitfield Mount a...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.
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