some LANDSCAPES

In Julien Gracq's fluvial revery The Narrow Waters (1976) he recalls the childhood sensation of being drawn down the river Evre by a...

  Flicking through a book my son got out of the library last week called 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I came to the year 1982...

Tim Dee has edited a new collection of place writing called Ground Work .  His introduction recalls an earlier version of the same idea, ...

 Giovanni Bellini, detail from Saint Jerome Reading in the Wilderness , c. 1485 National Gallery. Source: Wikimedia Commons I've ...

    Simon Bening, The Baptism of Christ and The Temptation of Christ , c. 1525-30 Source: J. Paul Getty Museum Last year the J....

Jacques-Louis David, View of the Gardens of the Palais du Luxembourg , 1794  'After walking through a play area, as usual not very...

Because News From Nowhere is a dream vision of the future I have found myself wondering sometimes if certain details I recall are really...

Last week the BBC published an interesting article by Paul Cooper on the theme of ruins and Arabic writing.  He notes that the 'motif o...

We enjoyed a family day trip to Hastings at the weekend, where I am pleased to say I was victorious at crazy golf.  As a child I always ima...

Thomas Cole, River in the Catskills , 1843 Source: Wikimedia Commons What was the first appearance of a train in a painting? Most peo...

Shibata Zeshin, Deer in a Forest , c. 1880s Source: Wikimedia Commons This week I attended the opening gala concert of the 2018 World...

Pieter Breugel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (Winter) , 1565 Source Wikimedia Commons To follow up my previous post , drawing on...

Hieronymus Bosch, The Tree-Man , c. 1505 Source: Wikimedia Commons Joseph Leo Koerner's magisterial Bosch & Bruegel: From Ene...

Isabelle Bird, Trackers Houses on the Banks of the Yangtze , 1896 Source: The Ammonite Press . In sketching, a landscape is represen...

I am over halfway through the year now in my project to tweet a landscape a day . Looking back to January 1st when I launched this initi...

Illustration from L e Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 Source: John Rylands Library I have wri...