some LANDSCAPES

Emily Carr, Kitwancool , 1928 Wikimedia Commons 'Emily Who? Outside Canada, no one’s ever heard of Emily Carr, the iconic la...

The amphitheatre, Caerleon, August 2014 In Wales last summer we visited the remains of Caerleon, the City of the Legions.  Charlotte ...

J. M. W. Turner , The Deer in Petworth Park , 1827   In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Thorstein Veblen argued that different ...

  Peder Balke, The North Cape, c.1840 There are still four months to see the fascinating Peder Balke exhibition currently on at the ...

In the clip I've embedded above, David Hinton introduces his book Hunger Mountain (2012) .  The eponymous peak is in Vermont, where ...

I was given a handsome new book for Christmas, Nick Drake: Remembered for a While.  It is made up of miscellaneous writings, interviews...

After many leaden days in London there was a bright sun rising over the rooftops this morning.  It seemed a good moment to listen to Alice O...

Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder , Magdalena Poenitens (Penitent Magdalene) , ca. 1555–56 Engraving in th...

When we visited Aix -en-Provence and Mont Sainte-Victoire, a couple of years before France adopted the Euro, it was mildly gratifying to...

This time last year I wrote a lengthy (for this blog) survey of landscape and music in 2013 (following similar but shorter posts in 2010 , ...

Frans Francken II, Preziosenwand ( Wall of Treasures ), 1636 Detail A whole book could be devoted to the history of landscape pai...

Last week I went to a discussion on landscape and photography at Tate Modern.  This wasn't linked to their new exhibition Conflict, T...

John Constable,  Landscape with goatherd and goats , 1823 Source for all images: Wikimedia Commons The V&A's Constable: Th...