some LANDSCAPES

In April 2018 I wrote a blog post  here  about blossom viewing: 'last weekend at Kew Gardens the cherry trees were in full bloom. It pr...

Sean Scully, Aran , 2005 Sean Scully was the subject of a profile in the Guardian earlier this year with a clickbaity headline: ''I...

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

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...

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

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...

  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...