some LANDSCAPES

There are some interesting things in the V&A's current exhibition, Light from the Middle East: New Photography : Tal Shochat'...

Just a brief post to let readers know that I have now completed a new version of the index to this blog .  I had realised that I was no ...

Ma Yuan (1160–1225), The Yellow River Breaches its Course It would be impossible to summarise the career of Liu Tieh-yün (1857-1909) br...

I spent Friday and Saturday at In The Field , a symposium on the art and craft of field recording. During the two days we heard about a ...

Emmanuel Maignan, Saint Francis of Paola (detail) , 1642 I have talked here before about landscapes that are transformed into bodies, ...

Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky , 1861 The National Gallery's new exhibition ‘Through American Eyes: Frederic Churc...

"The usual approach to Arnheim was by the river. The visitor left the city in the early morning. During the forenoon he ...

Seamus Heaney's first foray into translation, Sweeney Astray , published thirty years ago, was a version of Buile Shuibhne , which ...

I've been reading the late Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney .  Among the interesting things I ...

Exhibition booklet showing a detail from Adam Pynacker, Landscape with Sportsmen and Game , 1665 The Mall Galleries have a new exhibi...

The Ankerwycke Yew, Berkshire Said to be the site of Henry VIII's first liaisons with Anne Boleyn    Amongst the praise heaped on...

Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) Source: Wikimedia Commons This image was included on t he Voyager Spacecraft Gold ...

 William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 (1858-60) The development of landscape art in the margins of Ita...

Earlier this year I read The Hobbit to my young sons and, coming to the book again as an adult, I was impressed by the way the landscape is ...

(1) from Thomas Köner's Novaya Zemlya This is my third annual survey of landscape music, following an initial list covering 2010 ...

'Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated ...

Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton have kindly sent me a copy of Field Notes , a compilation of their place-poems . The first section ...