some LANDSCAPES

'The origin of the plot of The Draughtsman's Contract is autobiographical ... I discovered a house on the border of England a...

I have written here before about composers who have sought to impress the environment into their music by burying instruments in the earth ...

'Narrated in fruity tones by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, Figures in a Landscape offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara ...

A few weeks ago, on leaving the job I had done for six years, I was gifted a copy of Dominick Tyler's Uncommon Ground .  It combines ...

Paul Klee, Angelus Novus , 1920 'A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away fro...

In this post I want to draw your attention to Complex Crosses , a book of close readings by my friend Edmund Hardy which ' spans the hi...

I'm a bit amazed to see I have now written 3000 tweets, which looks a lot when put together as a long list .  The great epic of Old E...

The Royal Academy's Richard Diebenkorn exhibition divides neatly into three rooms, the first covering his early abstract period in A...

John Constable, Stratford Mill, c. 1820 Source: Wikimedia Commons (National Gallery) Anglers often appear in the paintings of John Co...

Billboard poster advertising Mountains and Waves , Highbury, April 2015 We were at the Barbican on Sunday for the last concert in a wee...

 Jan Provoost, The Virgin and Child in a Landscape (detail), early 16th century I managed a few minutes in the National Gallery at lu...

In Liguria recently I took on our walks my much-read copy of Italo Calvino's Our Ancestors , which contains his short novel The Bar...

Jan Wildens, May - Walk in the Avenue , c. 1615 On this first day of the month here is a delightful May painting that I saw a few weeks...

We spent last weekend at a remarkable wedding in the Cairngorms National Park. I'm not sure if I was technically 'in the Cairngor...

From the film Possession (2002): poets Christabel LaMotte and Randolph Henry Ash These two fictional nineteenth century poets in A. S....

I have just finished reading Nicolas Bouvier's Japanese Chronicles (1989, translated by Anne Dickerson) a compilation of travel sket...

Last Sunday we were at the Sir John Soane church at Bethnal Green for the third and final performance of 'Landscape', three set...