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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