some LANDSCAPES

  Josef Kuwasseg, The Period of the Muschelkalk , c. 1850 Source: The Universalmuseum Joanneum   This remarkable vision of a prehist...

Lucas de Heere, Stonehenge , c. 1572 Images: Wikimedia Commons In British Art: Ancient Landscapes , a catalogue published last year ...

Jan Van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (detail - full picture below), c. 1435-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this year I...

'Cliffs stand on both sides like parallel walls.  Here it is so narrow, so very narrow, writes one traveller, that one not only sees bu...

I bought this book at the recent Small Publishers Fair : a selection of classical Chinese verse translated into Scots , with English ver...

Rachel Whiteread, Chicken Shed , 2017 This post can be read as a sequel to one I wrote nine years ago on Rachel Whiteread's move ...

Six years ago I wrote about The Peregrine (1967) and its elusive author, J. A. Baker.  I was prompted in part by the airing of a radio ...

Clouds Rising from the Green Sea Ten Thousand Riplets on the Yangzi The Waving Surface of the Autumn Flood These beautiful im...

Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil), 1903 Tate Britain's new exhibition, Impressioni...

  Earlier today I was looking at these images while listening on headphones to a recording the BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan Thomas made ...

I recently came across a piece in the Yorkshire Post about the poet, John Wedgwood Clarke, whose book Landfill is the fruit of his year as...

Unidentified artist in the style of Sheng Mou,  Fan painting illustrating Su Shi's 'Second Ode on the Red Cliff',  late 1...

Sita Ram, The Firoz Shah Minar at Gaur and a Palash tree , 1817 This watercolour is owned by the British Library and is one of several ...

Li Ch'eng, A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks , Sung Dynasty In Michael Sullivan's history of Chinese landscape painting,...

I was pleased that Caught by the River made Frozen Air their Book of the Month , although they have now sneaked in a second one - The Lost ...