some LANDSCAPES

In The Road to Oxiana (1937) Robert Byron visits the Omayad Mosque in Damascus. 'Originally, its bareness was clothed in a glitter...

In a new exhibition, Running Stitch , Jen Southern and Jen Hamilton are 're-configuring Brighton & Hove by 'capturing' its s...

Hudson River Landscape (1951) can be seen in the excellent David Smith retrospective at Tate Modern. A 'drawing in space', it has ...

The Irish painter George Barret (1732-84) was a regular visitor to the house of William Lock of Norbury. As the Redgraves put it in their su...

John Cage composed a series of works inspired by Ryoan-ji, the Zen garden in Kyoto, starting with a version for oboe and adding other ver...

The Guardian has started an artsblog with a list of 20 artworks "to see before you die". It includes two landscape paintings - Ve...

Tacita Dean is an artist who pursues coincidences. I bought the new Phaidon book about her at the weekend and reading it last night I realis...

In Wind, Sand and Stars ( Terre des hommes ) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes flying over the desert and seeing high plateaux shaped lik...

No two artists will see the same colours in a landscape. In 1914 Paul Klee and August Macke travelled to Tunisia. Klee immediately noted the...

John Ruskin, Falls of Schaffhausen , 1842 John Ruskin's description of the famous waterfall in Modern Painters (Vol. I, Part II) ...

Alan Sonfist, Time Landscape , 1978 Source: Wikimedia Commons What landscape questions are asked by Alan Sonfist’s artworks? The obv...

Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson’s A Celtic Miscellany (originally published fifty-five years ago) contains a whole section on Nature, somethi...

Basho by Sugiyama Sanpû (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The keiki (landscape) style of Haikai was dominant in the period Basho was writing, ...

Yesterday’s autumn sunshine gave the views on Hampstead Heath a harmonious classical beauty. At Kenwood, where the grass slopes lead the ey...

Paul Cézanne, Lac d’Annecy , 1896 Source: Wikimedia Commons I first saw the paintings at the Courtauld Institute when they were still...

Two examples of landscape visual poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire's 'Paysage' and Guillermo de Torre's 'Paisaje Plastico...

In his 1960 essay 'Notes on Corot', the poet James Merrill writes about the transition from Corot's early Italian sketches to hi...

The catalogue to the current Adam Elsheimer exhibition is published by Paul Holberton . Holberton himself knows a lot about early landscape...

Adam Elsheimer, Aurora , c. 1606 Source: Wikimedia Commons To Dulwich today for the Adam Elsheimer exhibition , a welcome break from ...

John Sell Cotman, Beach Scene , c. 1820 In a recent New York Review of Books , tucked in among the articles on various depressing Mid...