some LANDSCAPES

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Lower Lake

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Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake , 2005 I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-condition...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Deer Jump Lookout

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Mrs Fox with her  Stormy Landscapes Here is a landscape painter I have never featured before, Mrs Fox. Her stormy landscapes (painted in min...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Raw-boned hills

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I just finished Richard Langston's superb new oral history of The Clean, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul  (I had a tear in my ey...
Friday, June 19, 2026

The Epic of Everest

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The Epic of Everest (1924) is an extraordinary landscape film - mainly shot in black and white but sometimes tinted in vivid colours, inclu...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

La Région Centrale

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 Michael Snow, still from  La Région Centrale , 1971 I thought I would focus here on a fascinating work of landscape art that I have only b...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

In the bright sunlight of a paradisal day

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All at once I was standing, almost without being aware of it, on that other earth in the bright sunlight of a paradisal day. I was apparentl...
Monday, June 08, 2026

A yellow roughness in the land

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Round Soria the land is dry and cold. Over the hills, the barren ranges, through green bits of meadow, up the cindery peaks the spring ...
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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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