some LANDSCAPES

Shen Fu's memoir, Six Records of a Floating Life (1809), describes his life as an undistinguished civil servant and art enthusiast, with...

Last year Denis Dutton, editor of that useful website Arts and Letters Daily , published The Art Instinct , a book that applies evolutionar...

When Basho and Sora set off in 1689 on the Narrow Road to the Deep North , they were traveling into the past, to re-visit landscapes with lo...

The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future - Saint-Just Sculpture at Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta Source: Wikimedia ...

Henry Fuseli, who became professor of painting at the Royal Academy in 1799, famously warned his pupils off 'that kind of landscape whic...

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Queen Elizabeth I , c1592 Source: Wikimedia Commons   The reader of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1...

In a post a few years ago I reprinted a short poem by Coleridge, written in 1828, of which Richard Holmes said 'this fragment of Dutch ...

There is a great tradition of poets contemplating the landscape from mountain huts.  I've talked here before about Gary Snyder 'look...

On Friday I got to see extracts from Patrick Keiller's forthcoming film, Robinson in Ruins, at the AHRC's 'Art and Environment...

'We live in a constellation / Of patches and of pitches' wrote Wallace Stevens in 'July Mountain'. This poem is the star...

Florian Maier-Aichen uses special lenses and computer imaging to render epic landscapes mysterious or disturbing. One of his untitled phot...

This time last year I wrote about the BBC's poetry season, contrasting a documentary on Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage w...

Leonardo da Vinci, Landscape , 1473 Source: Wikimedia Commons The British Museum's 'Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance ...

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 ...