some LANDSCAPES

Unknown artist, Jade Mountain Illustrating  the Gathering of Scholars at the Lanting Pavilion , 1790 Source: Wikimedia Commons Th...

Isabelle Bird, Trackers Houses on the Banks of the Yangtze , 1896 Source: The Ammonite Press . In sketching, a landscape is represen...

Jan Van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (detail - full picture below), c. 1435-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this year I...

" I have given you the trouble of walking to this spot, Captain Waverley, both because I thought the scenery would interest you, and b...

I have been reading A Burglar's Guide to the City by BLDGBLOG 's Geoff Manaugh which has interesting things to say about buildin...

The summer's Barbara Hepworth exhibition may have been a bit underwhelming but one exhibit that caught my attention was a display of s...

When we visited Aix -en-Provence and Mont Sainte-Victoire, a couple of years before France adopted the Euro, it was mildly gratifying to...

Medieval manuscript of The Journey Through Wales in the British Library In the spring of 1188 Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, set o...

We pass through grass behush the bush to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here. On the final page of Finn...

I was going to photograph the view from Westminster Bridge this morning but we've been asked to work from home during the Olympics...

Michele Marieschi, The Rialto Bridge from the Riva del Vin, 1737 Source: Wikimedia Commons The National Gallery's recent exhibiti...

John Sell Cotman, Greta Bridge c1805 In 1980 Phaidon published a Companion to Art and Artists in the British Isles which divides the c...

I first saw Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) at the ICA in the early nineties. They didn't have a soundtra...