some LANDSCAPES

In 2011, Australian harpist Alice Giles got the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of her geologist grandfather Cecil Madigan, who ...

Yesterday evening I listened yesterday to a recent episode of ' Late Junction ' in which Anne Hilde Neset was taken by Jana Wind...

Gherardo Cibo, Men Collecting Specimens on a Hillside , 16th century Source: British Library Twitter feed This illuminated manusc...

"The sixth storm, rain. Just barely saved the boat. The sea like a vortex, the surf like cannon fire. The tent broke. Wonderfully ...

Today I launched a new initiative, to post 365 landscapes on Twitter over the course of 2018.  In doing this I am using a format (see abo...

  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...