some LANDSCAPES

Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm , 1650-1 Source: Wikimedia Commons Alain de Botton's recent ideas for making art more popu...

During our trip to the Lake District last week we stayed in Coniston and went to visit Ruskin's old home at Brantwood (above).  There...

A poetry reading by Thomas A. Clark is a rare and special occasion, so we took leave this week and headed up to Grasmere to hear him.  Earli...

We were in Margate recently and saw the new installation by Edmund de Waal, atmosphere .  As usual in his recent work, the vitrines...

' Blood Meridian is also a novel about place, about the landscape of Texas and Chihuahua and Sonora; a kind of anti-pastoral novel...

Paolo Veronese, The Annointing of David , c. 1550 During the spiritualism craze that swept Victorian London in the 1860s, John Ruskin w...

  Carl Philipp Fohr, The Ruins of Hohenbaden , (1814-15) The Morgan Library & Museum Today was the last day to see A Dialogue wit...

  Earlier this month at the Baths of Caracalla we saw this spiral arrangements of Roman stone - like a Richard Long sculpture re-imagin...

The Colosseum seen from the ruins on the Palatine Hill In my last post I said we were about to head off for Rome and now I am back with...

'I love gardens.  They do not reject people.  There one can walk freely, pause to view the entire garden, or gaze at a single tree.  Pl...

'Consider that when the brush moves, water flows from a spring, and when the brush stops, a mountain stands firm' -  Sun Guoting (6...

  John Ruskin, View from my Window at Mornex, c. 1862-1863 Images from Wikimedia Commons If you're in Edinburgh this summer you...

'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary.'...

We pass through grass behush the bush to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here. On the final page of Finn...

The story of Acis and Galatea is rooted in the landscape of Sicily.  When the sea-nymph sees her lover killed by a great rock, thrown by th...

Paul Bril, Self-Portrait , c1595-1600 Source for images: Wikimedia Commons Edward Norgate's Miniatura; or The Art of Limning , com...

'And how can it be,' asked Georges Bataille, 'that a landscape, formed of interrelated appearances without any meaning, can, acc...

Bada Shanren, Fish and rocks , 1696 Source: Wikimedia Commons In Meer der Tusche (2005), Swiss writer Richard Weihe tells in 51 sho...

 Frederik de Moucheron, Mountain Scene with Herd of Cattle , second half of the 17th century In the course of one of those long conver...

I mentioned Edward Chell 's art of the motorway verges in an earlier post on Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' book Edgel...