some LANDSCAPES

We recently went to the beautiful Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery. I thought it very well done and tastefully presented, focusi...

Here is a photo I took this morning of the David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing exhibition at London's Annely Juda gallery. This room is de...

Bill Porter (who uses the pen name Red Pine) wrote a wonderful account of his travels in search of places associated with ancient Chinese po...

When I reached the point of sand jutting out among the waves, the spell of the place descended upon me with a positive shock. No mere “scene...

Last weekend we went to The Garden Cinema to see the new Wilhelmina-Barns Graham film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things. There was an interv...

I've been on an Irish culture kick over the last month: first the film  Kneecap , then Juno and the Paycock with Mark Rylance and then A...

I enjoyed Martin Gayford's new book  Venice: City of Pictures . Reading it felt like returning to a well-loved painting and finding new,...