some LANDSCAPES

 James Norrie and Jan Griffier II, Panorama of Taymouth Castle and Loch Tay , c. 1733-9 I recently wrote here about Daniel Defoe's...

In his history of ballooning, Falling Upwards , Richard Holmes mentions 'the first aerial drawings ever made from a balloon basket...

Not long ago, camping on the edge of a field, a passing child saw me reading Tim Dee's Four Fields (it's cover a flat grey landscape...

A few weeks back I got round to watching the excellent Mike Leigh film, Mr. Turner .  The clip I have embedded above shows him arriving ...

I have not had a chance to say anything here yet about the Dulwich Picture Gallery's Eric Ravilious exhibition.  Reviewers loved it: Lau...

I have added a new feature to this blog - maps.  Click on one of the links above and you get a zoomable Google Map with pins connected t...

Our balloon ride over the Garrotxa Whilst in Spain last month we took to the air in a balloon.  I also read Richard Holmes' enterta...

'In America they call it the green flash . When the sun sets, in a very clear horizon, with no land mass for many hundreds of miles, an...

For the past week I have been immersed in the Catalan landscape described by Josep Pla in his remarkable book, The Gray Notebook .  The NYRB...

I've been reading A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe (3 vols, 1724-6), written whilst he was living at...

A photo posted by marcquinnart (@marcquinnart) on Jul 14, 2015 at 3:54pm PDT I've written here before about the way Modernis...

Reading sad news this week of the death of Lee Harwood, I remembered an unfinished post I began a few years ago on one of his books and it...

Last week saw the launch of Rewilding Britain and an interesting piece on Channel 4 News in which George Monbiot returned to the ...

In 2012 William Kentridge delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University.  This was the lecture series that gave us I...

Ando Hiroshige, Tanabata Festival in Edo , 1852 (from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ) 'Among the many charming festivals celebr...