some LANDSCAPES

Here are J. M. W. Turner's The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons (1810) and an explosive rock fall in  Victor Kossakovsky's new e...

Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology edited by Todd Andrew Borlik was published last year and so ...

In a recent clear-out my mother passed on to me this 1950 publication on Constable.  At first I took it to be an exhibition catalogue but...

Katie Paterson, Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand, 2010 Photography was permitted: this is my photograph of her pho...

Lucas de Heere, Stonehenge , c. 1572 Images: Wikimedia Commons In British Art: Ancient Landscapes , a catalogue published last year ...

Anon (once attributed to Guo Xi), Mount Emei under Heavy Snow , 17th century Mount Omei, or Emei, in Sichuan province, is one of the Fo...

J. M. W. Turner, The Great Fall of the Reichenbach, in the Valley of Hasle, Switzerland , 1804 Source: Wikimedia Commons Turner pai...

John Constable, Chain Pier, Brighton , 1826-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons Turner versus Constable...  You can compare the two greates...

A constant keeping-past of shaken trees, And a bewildered glitter of loose road; Banks of bright growth, with single blades atop Again...

  The view from Holy Island  on the morning of Maundy Thursday Before leaving for our Easter break in Northumberland I had joked abou...

William Blake, Edmund Spenser , c. 1800 Source: Wiimedia Commons In Book IV, Canto XI of The Faerie Queene (1596), Edmund Spenser ...

A few weeks back I got round to watching the excellent Mike Leigh film, Mr. Turner .  The clip I have embedded above shows him arriving ...

When I first started coming regularly to Sheffield in the late nineties it was to work in a building described in Owen Hatherley 's The ...

J. M. W. Turner , The Deer in Petworth Park , 1827   In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Thorstein Veblen argued that different ...