some LANDSCAPES

I spent the day yesterday at an interesting Tate event: ‘The Printed Path: Landscape, Walking and Recollection’: ‘taking the late German-bo...

The thought of a Millais retrospective hardly sets the pulse racing, but as I was in Tate Britain on Wednesday I had a look around. The l...

In his chapter on 'The Picturesque Environment' in The Song of the Earth , Jonathan Bate quotes Adorno: 'If you exclaim "wh...

One of my favourite writers on landscape is the prolific John Dixon Hunt. There is a short US radio programme , 'Milestones of the Mill...

I have been in Copenhagen where I took a look at the Danish Golden Age landscapes in the Carlsberg Glyptotek . The galleries start with Eck...

If I'd had more time I could have photographed the grykes at Malham (see previous posting) and come up with something like Olafur Eliass...

Following on from my previous posting, I see the new Robert Macfarlane book is now out: there was a review by Andrew Motion in The Guardian...

There is a new journal with a landscape theme, Archipelago (not to be confused with the on-line journal Archipelago which has just publ...

The Daily Telegraph drama critic Clement Scott started visiting the Norfolk coast in the 1880s. There, as Richard Mabey relates it in Flora...

J.M.W. Turner, Venice: Looking across the Lagoon at Sunset, 1840 Source: Tate, Creative Commons Tate Britain's exhibition Hockney...

O fons Bandusiae, splendidior uitro, dulci digne mero non sine floribus, cras donaberis haedo, cui frons turgida cornibus... - ...

Well it seems only right that after a posting on Ingmar Bergman I now do one on Michelangelo Antonioni, who also died this week. I’ve ...

'The night had brought little relief from the heat, and at dawn a hot gust of wind blows across the colourless sea. The KNIGHT, Ant...

The verse anthology I’m clutching here, English Scottish and Welsh Landscape, edited by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor, with lithographs...

Among Australian Aboriginal artists, the work of Rover Thomas (1926-98) particularly appeals to me, perhaps because there are some superfic...

Some years ago we visited the Cinque Terra, a group of five villages on the Ligurian coast of Italy. One day we did the coast walk between ...

The latest Frieze , a ‘summer ecology special’, is a hefty 265 pages, so I was glad to see the editorial reflecting on the carbon footprint...

The last posting got me thinking about the idea of the industrial sublime, and the painting below which is often used to illustrate it. The...

I can't resist including another piece from The Poet's Eye . Geoffrey Grigson includes the whole of Walt Whitman's 'Plate G...

As you can see, I have borrowed a copy of The Poet's Eye (1944), Geoffrey Grigson's anthology which I mentioned a few weeks ago. O...