some LANDSCAPES

Cherry Walk, Kew Gardens Last weekend at Kew Gardens the cherry trees were in full bloom.  It prompted me to organise for last night a ...

As I mentioned in January, finding female landscape painters to highlight in my 'tweet of the day' has been quite difficult, partly...

Li Cheng, A Solitary Temple Among Clearing Peaks , Song Dynasty We have got rather behind in watching Civilisations on the iPlayer,...

Paul Nash, Sketch for Empty Room , 1938   I am always interested in moments where interior and exterior change places and landscape som...

Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy is a wonderful exhibition, well worth the five stars Laura Cumming gave it in The Guardian .  There are m...

  In the sections on landscape and music in my book Frozen Air,   I wrote about the difficulty of translating the physical forms of cli...

Gu Kaizhi, The Nymph of the Luo River , Song Dynasty copy of a 4th century original (detail) I love the magical green landscape into w...

... All around them the mountaintops rose up into the clear sky. Marie thought they looked as if they were made of porcelain, and althou...

Feelings from Mountain and Water (山水情) is essentially an animated ink painting. It is a film about a master of the guqin , an instrument...

'The fluttering swallows leave on their homeward journey; The forlorn cicada makes no sound; The wild geese call as they travel sou...

I was pleased when Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize last year, partly because I loved The Buried Giant , despite the misgivings of some cr...

Last week we went to the reopened Hayward Gallery for its big Andreas Gursky retrospective .  Twenty years ago, everyone seemed to be talkin...

Next month a Joan Jonas retrospective is due to open at Tate Modern - you can read an interview in Tate Etc.   I should probably wait ...

Joseph Anton Koch, The Schmadribach Waterfall above Lauterbrunnen, c. 1793 Last month the Evening Standard carried a headline saying t...

  Yosa Buson, Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang in his hermitage three times , 18th century Source: Wikimedia Commons This beautiful winte...

I have been immersed in Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World , a (literally) wonderful and wittily-written book about the great ...

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