Friday, June 30, 2017

The Gardens of Fontainebleau

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Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Forest of Fontainebleau , 1868 Source: Wikimedia Commons The Forest of Fontainebleau has a special place ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

The Pink and White Terraces

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Charles Blomfield, Pink Terraces , 1886 Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month news came in that the lost terraces of Lake Rot...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

The Great Forest

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Jacob van Ruisdael, The Great Forest , 1655-60 Peter Handke's text The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire (1980) unsurprisingly foc...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

Pure light flooding the rock walls

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There is a new article on China and its rivers in Lapham's Quarterly by Philip Ball, author of The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of ...
Friday, June 02, 2017

The ruins of Karnak

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Paul Nash, The Wanderer (detail), 1911 Source: British Museum The British Museum currently has an exhibition of British landscape ...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

The Gibberd Garden

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We made a trip this week to see Sir Frederick Gibberd's garden, created between 1957 and 1984, and located just outside Harlow, the N...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Trees that in moving keep their intervals

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A constant keeping-past of shaken trees, And a bewildered glitter of loose road; Banks of bright growth, with single blades atop Again...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Fog Line

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A fortnight ago I was at the Wellcome Trust for an event curated by Amy Cutler in which artists, musicians and academics re-soundtracked ...
Friday, May 05, 2017

This city which is no longer anything but an orchestra

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When in the past I have added extra features to Some Landscapes, I have tried to include some new material at the same time.  What follows w...
Monday, May 01, 2017

Landscape and time

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I am getting close now to having written one thousand Some Landscapes posts.  I hope to mark this milestone soon, but for now I'd like t...
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