some LANDSCAPES

Mountain R is a 1996 novel by the French Oulipian writer Jacques Jouet (1947-) about a failed attempt to construct an artificial mountai...

Apollo 11 Mission image - Lunar surface and horizon Source: Internet Archive Tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landin...

Sólheimajökull glacier, Iceland Photographed by me in May 2019 After returning from Iceland recently I was keen to write something ...

Keros and Dhaskalio Source: Wikimedia Commons, Zde I've just been reading an interesting article in the Independent about a ...

Joan Carlile, The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham  in Richmond Park , detail, 1650s Today we made our way through the Pride c...

Grand Canyon (1958) In 1959, the Oscar for Best Short Subject (Live Action) was won by a Walt Disney film, Grand Canyon .  Nearly twen...

I have started the audiobook of Underland .  I listen to it underground, during my tube journeys to work, where claustrophobia comes fro...

The Overstory (2018) is the novel about trees that was up for the Booker last year and has now won the Pulitzer Prize.  Clearly it is a ver...

"Time had gone soft at the crossroads..."  So begins Chanctonbury Rings , Justin Hopper's spoken word album, based on h...

Colin Sackett has kindly sent me a copy of Printed Landscapes , an anthology drawing on his earlier books, some of which (like River Axe ...

Tawaraya Sōtatsu, The Beach at Sumiyoshi, from the 'Tales of Ise' , c. 1600-40 The Cleveland Museum of Art In the highly re...

In a recent clear-out my mother passed on to me this 1950 publication on Constable.  At first I took it to be an exhibition catalogue but...

Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists is a novel that circles round various mysteries: the life and death of a Japanese garden ...

I thought I would follow up my last post on Katie Paterson with something about James Turrell, whose light works I was reminded of when l...

Katie Paterson, Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand, 2010 Photography was permitted: this is my photograph of her pho...

..."What do you think?" He knelt and showed his drawing. Telimena studied his efforts with much grace, Though c...

When I first saw Canaletto's paintings in the National Gallery, like A Regatta on the Grand Canal , I was interested in their vivid deta...