some LANDSCAPES

I bought a new camcorder this week and we took it with us yesterday on a trip to Somerset House for a look round the Bill Fontana installati...

This is a shout out (can't believe I just wrote that) for Go Together Press , which is nearly three years old now, and its excellent mag...

This is my 500th post! To mark the occasion I'm including some extended thoughts here on Peter Lanyon, his landscape-inspired art and ...

Andrew Young (1885-1971) isn't a household name but you often come upon his work in collections of nature poetry.  Geoffrey Grigson, for...

'Empty peaks, silence: Among sparse stars,/ not yet flawed, it drifts.'  Tu Fu's short poem 'Full Moon' describes the st...

I've only just spotted an excellent article published in January on 'Music and Landscape' by Tom Service. It discusses some of ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Horace Walpole , c. 1756-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons You have to love Horace Walpole - aesthete, antiquary, art hist...

Source: NASA Earth Observatory With flights grounded following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull and a cloud of volcanic ash coverin...

Back in 2007 I wrote briefly here on my return from Copenhagen about the landscapes of Christen Købke. On Sunday I was able to see more of...

I have written here before about David Nash's Wooden Boulder which took twenty-five years to be carried from a Welsh river to the open...

There is a beautiful watercolour from 1935 in the Dulwich Picture Gallery's Paul Nash: The Elements , called Empty Room .  It shows an ...

Ten years ago we spent a pleasant few days in Avignon and I remember wandering around trying to picture the city in the time of Petrarch - n...

The heroines of nineteenth century novels are often seen drawing - a desirable accomplishment of course, but also one that could be used to ...

Portrait of Paul Sandby , Francis Cotes, 1761   Source: Wikimedia Commons Upstairs at the Royal Academy, away from the throngs enjo...