some LANDSCAPES

Poet and Chinese scholar David Hinton has specialised in translations from the Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition. He has been well...

There is currently a trend for uncovering documentary photographs and considering them in the context of landscape art practices and conv...

John Millais, Portrait of John Ruskin , 1853-4 In this memorable passage, John Ruskin observes the acoustic qualities of Scottish strea...

A John Clare poem gives its title to a new anthology of ‘poems for the planet’, The Thunder Mutters , edited by Alice Oswald, author of ...

There is a good John Clare blog which combine extracts from the poems and prose with appropriate images. Some recent posts have been on C...

The OED is allowing free access to its online edition this week. Here are four definitions of the word ‘landscape’ along with some illust...

Charles Tomlinson, a poet who has always drawn inspiration from landscapes and landscape painting, once wrote a review ( Modern Painters Sp...

On the centenary of the birth of Paul Nash (1889-1946) there was an exhibition of his art called 'Paul Nash: Places' which focused o...

Artist and musician Jem Finer, has been awarded the first PRS Foundation £50,000 New Music Award to create a sound art installation with Sto...

The English version of Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids is now available in paperback ( Thames & Hudson ). Andrei Tarkovsky took...

I’ve just been to the Sir John Soane Museum to see The Tragic Genius of Joseph Michael Gandy . It is a small exhibition (free entry) p...

‘I think the smoky, sooty surfaces of the walls of most London buildings do not bear close examination, but look beautiful behind the cry...

Looking at images of a carpet at Sacramento Airport by Seyed Alavi, with its design showing satellite views of the Sacremento River, re...

In The Franklin’s Tale Chaucer describes the sadness of Dorigen as she stands on the high cliffs of Brittany looking out at the ships, thin...

Greenmuseum is a virtual space for environmental art with a lot of useful material. Among the featured artists is Agnes Denes , who is pr...

The cycle of the seasons is celebrated in The Angler’s Calendar (1651), forty songs by the Korean sijo poet Yun Sondo (1587-1671). The sp...

In the Limbourg Brothers’ Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry , April (above) is symbolised by a newly betrothed couple standing in a...

Spring seems at last to be with us. Here are twenty landscape-related season words ( kigo ) that are traditionally used in Japanese poetry...

In Anne Whiston Spirn’s book The Language of Landscape there is an entertaining chapter in which she thinks up landscape equivalents for fig...

It is now fifty years ago that J.G. Ballard published his first short stories. Rereading one of these, ‘Prima Belladonna’, recently I was ...