some LANDSCAPES

  We will soon learn whether Paul Noble has won this year's Turner Prize.  The landscapes he has been drawing for the last two decade...

'Millenial bergs from the glaciers, morbid, silent except for waves breaking on their flanks, the deceiving sound of shoreline where ...

'He would like to travel, if he could, stretched out on a sofa and not stirring, watching landscapes, ruins and cities pass before him ...

I was at the Barbican yesterday for Calixto Bieito's Forests , a World Shakespeare Festival production composed from fragments of S...

Last year I wrote about one of James Elkins' Art Seminar Series, Landscape Theory , and I'm turning now to one of his other rece...

‘I look for it always, the thick, vespertine gloaming that douses the day’s heat. When it comes, the landscape grows soft and vague, as i...

On my morning walks to the Underground this week I have passed front gardens strewn with delicate dewy cobwebs, as you can see from the p...

To the ICA last night for the London Film Festival Screening of Pat Collins' film Silence .  Like the film I saw at last year's ...

A strange work of land art avant la lettre is created in August Strindberg 's extraordinary novel By the Open Sea (1889).  Although ...

Next month Tate Britain will feature a new display of its works by Ian Hamilton Finlay.  Meanwhile in Edinburgh there are still a few more ...

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape, the most exciting art exhibition this year, will shortly be comin...

In May 1922 Vladimir Nabokov sat his finals at Cambridge and was relieved to find that one of the questions asked him to describe Plyushkin...

In 1994 the Belgian painter Marie Desbarax became bewitched by a certain landscape near the city of Nivelles. A text inspired by the pain...

Walking down the Kingsland Road last night towards the quadrivium that is Dalston Junction, I was following the route of the old Roman Ro...

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Sparks II , 1906 Perhaps the most fitting posthumous tribute to a landscape artist is to name a lan...

On the Shetland island of Unst   Before our summer holiday in the Shetland Islands I tried to do some background reading in Shetland...

'Always the green chaos rather than the printed map' - John Fowles  The Tree , the sea, the Cobb Last week in Lyme Regis I s...

Claude Monet, Étretat, la porte d'Aval: fishing boats leaving the harbour , c1885 This post begins with Claude Monet at É tretat,...

I'm not sure how big a bouncy castle has to be before it can be considered landscape architecture, but let's assume that Jeremy Dell...