some LANDSCAPES

I was at the Royal Academy today for the Anish Kapoor exhibition which has received quite a lot of media coverage.  The kind of mirrored scu...

Another good source for free access soundscape recordings: the British Library Sound Archive .  They have various atmospheric recordings of ...

My previous post described Peter Cusack's recordings of the sounds of nature at Chernobyl.  Jacob Kirkegaard's Four Rooms project, ...

Gruenrekorder's Autumn Leaves is a really good survey of current work in environmental soundscape composition and it can all be dowlo...

Gert Jonke's novel Homage to Czerny describes a garden party in which reality and representation, perception and memory become confus...

It is hard not to believe there is something atavistic in the powerful emotions stirred by the sight of the sea, come upon suddenly after a ...

"All faces envelop an unknown, unexplored landscape; all landscapes are populated by a loved or dreamed-of face, develop a face to come...

Triple Gorge one thread of heaven over ten thousand cascading thongs of water, slivers of sun and moon sheering away above, and wild...

The National Gallery's ‘Corot to Monet’ exhibition charts 'the development of open-air landscape painting up to the first Impressio...

Tate Modern's decision to devote a big exhibition to Per Kirkeby has been questioned but I was pleased to see a good spread of his yest...

The British Museum are currently showing Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur , an exhibition previously at the Smithsonian.  T...

Edward Lear, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise, 1859 Source: Victorian Web I have mentioned Edward Lear briefly before - speci...

J. M. W. Turner, Staffa, Fingal's Cave , 1832  Last night I watched the recent Charles Hazlewood documentary for the BBC on Felix ...

Undoubtedly one of the best books I've ever read on landscape is Marjorie Hope Nicolson's Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory (1959). ...

This is the last of my short series of posts about contemporary landscape drawing, based on Phaidon's Vitamin D survey.  Serse, in addi...

In The Mill on the Floss (1860), George Eliot describes the landscape of childhood.  'Life did change for Tom and Maggie; and yet they ...

We know that naturalism is a style like any other - Gombrich's Art and Illusion goes to some lengths demonstrating this in the case of ...

I heard designer Celia Birtwell on the radio the other day saying how her friend David Hockney often sends her drawings made on his iPhone. ...

Edward Thomas wrote all his poetry over a period of twenty-seven months, from November 1914 to January 1917.  Read in sequence they trace th...

The first chapter of Peter Humfrey's 2007 monograph on Titian is called 'From the Mountains to the Lagoon'.  Titian was born in ...