some LANDSCAPES

'Down by the shoreline with my back to the land I felt my feet sink down in the sand Down by the harbour standing all alone ...

The Hayward Gallery's current exhibition Ana Mendieta: Traces is well worth a visit.  Her Siluetas (1973-80) were an important con...

By Jove, I've been reading The Riddle of the Sands and realised it's a rather splendid landscape novel! 'For miles in eve...

In one of my earliest posts here I mentioned the tradition in China of carving short poetic inscriptions into the rock at scenic places, qu...

I said in an earlier post that I might return at some point to In the Field , the book of interviews with field recordists put together...

Joseph Wright of Derby, Matlock Tor by Moonlight , 1777-80 The lure of landscape painting was described by Joseph Wright of Derby in a...

The Atacama desert: a 'vast open book of memory' whose clear skies have allowed astronomers to look back in time to uncover the o...

'Sonata for Piano and Vacuum Cleaner' can be found towards the end of The Hall of Uselessness , the new volume of collected essays...

Tacita Dean describes her latest film JG as an attempt to solve the mystery of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, a challenge posed by J. ...

Yesterday we went down to the Isle of Dogs, where the great brick sugar warehouses on the side of West India Docks have for the last decase ...

In an earlier post here I mentioned the chapter Edward Thomas devoted to John Aubrey in The Literary Pilgrim in England and his praise f...

And so, after my last two posts on Aran and the Burren, I come to Connemara, the third of Tim Robinson's ‘ABC of earth-wonders’, and ...

Seamus Heaney has died and, if I may borrow some links from Arts & Letters Daily , you can read tributes everywhere:  NY Times , Iris...

  View of Árainn Mhór from Inis Meáin Yesterday we sat on a cliff on the Aran Island of Inis Meáin, looking out over a perfect blue se...

Work took me to Durham yesterday and gave me the opportunity to see the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition .  I was surprised that the curat...

  Winds, Woods, Mountains, Lakes, Islands, Plains and Streams: each are addressed in turn in W. H. Auden's 'Bucolics' (1953)...

The first description of a landscape photograph was written in 1760, almost eighty years before the invention of photography.  In Giphant...

Robert Macfarlane recently wrote an appreciation of M. John Harrison that made me want to seek out his novel Climbers when I have more time...

'For truly art is embedded in nature, and he who can extract it, has it.' - Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer, Willow Mill...