some LANDSCAPES

I was reading Dafydd ap Gwilym in a Welsh wood last week.  Many of his nature poems were addressed to a llaitai - love-messenger - like...

This autumn the Royal Academy will have a major retrospective exhibition for Anselm Kiefer.  Back in the eighties, when I was a teenager...

Medieval manuscript of The Journey Through Wales in the British Library In the spring of 1188 Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, set o...

Walter Crane's 1907 frontispiece to Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Here is Robert L...

Gerardo Dottori, Self Portrait , (1928) Comune di Perugia This summer at the Estorick Collection you can see a thought-provoking exhib...

Rebecca Solnit published two essays on contemporary American landscape photography in Creative Camera magazine, in 1993 and 1998,...

I have just finished the Jim Crace novel Harvest : 'Sometime in the pre-industrial period, an isolated and self-sufficient English v...

Looking at players in the World Cup this month I have wondered whether those reports last year that we have reached 'peak beard' ca...

Last year I asked here 'why isn't the art of Recording Britain better known?'  Well Sheffield's Millenium Gallery is cu...