some LANDSCAPES

Mahler's hut at Steinbach Source: Wikimedia Commons I have often written here about writers' huts but said nothing about co...

A short way downriver from Jiujiang, where the the Yangtze meets Boyang Lake, there is a famous sonorous landscape called Stone Bell Mountai...

Our print of Darren Almond's Sandwalk Wood (2014) Each day I pass on our stairs this print by the photographer Darren Almond.  I...

 Hon'ami Koetsu, Fujisan , 17th century Source: Wikimedia Commons In his book Zen Landscapes Allen S. Weiss discusses the way Ja...

George Frederic Watts, Portrait of William Morris , 1870 When, in the summer of 1996, the V&A held an exhibition to mark the centen...

My copy of Pan : the 1983 Folio edition with wood engravings by Fredrik Matheson Knut Hamsun described to a correspondent in his im...

The summer's Barbara Hepworth exhibition may have been a bit underwhelming but one exhibit that caught my attention was a display of s...

 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...