some LANDSCAPES

Whilst in the Courtauld Gallery earlier this week to see the Peter Lanyon exhibition I had a look at the permanent collection and spent some...

So it seems I have now been writing this blog for exactly ten years.  If I had considered this when I started and realised it was going t...

'There is nothing that lasts on this scene of forgetting, nothing stands firm and endures.  It changes its face, continually trying to ...

We went down to Chichester last weekend to see the Pallant House David Jones exhibition . I have written here before about Jones' bo...

I seem to have written rather often about Andrei Tarkovsky on this blog, but perhaps it's not so surprising - how many other director...

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 ...