some LANDSCAPES

Autojektor, Basilisk , 2019 Well, the weeks drag on and I am starting to forget what hills, rivers and shorelines actually look like....

I was intrigued by a story in the Guardian the other day: 'almost a century after it was shot, a brief but beautifully made doc...

Master of the Darmstadt Passion, Saint Onuphrius , 1460 You could write a whole book about landscapes in depictions of the Desert Fa...

Thomas Kerrich, Diagram of Three Landscapes Drawn towards and away from the Sun , 1796 I just came upon a photograph I took of two rema...

I recently read Jeremy Noel-Tod's excellent anthology The Penguin Book of Prose Poetry and it prompted me to get down a few books from...

I was thinking the other day about the old cliché that alien planets in Dr Who were always filmed in quarries.  Apparently David Tennant ...

One use now made of writing on landscape that didn't exist when I started this blog is the Instagram Caption.  Many websites now offer I...

Alvíssmál ('All-Wise's Sayings') is a poem in the Poetic Edda in which Thor outwits a dwarf called Alvíss, 'All-Wise'...

On 5 October 1899 attendees at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival heard the first performance of Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures , with El...

Occasionally you read a sentence in an old book and you become suddenly aware of the vertiginous gulf of time separating you from its writer...

Painting en plein air can bring many unexpected problems, from the bandits encountered by Thomas Jones to the waves that drenched Claude ...

In these days of forced isolation, lots of people are turning to film streaming sites.  If you are interested in silent movies, I can hig...

One of the many pleasures of Vincent van Gogh's paintings is the way he changes his style of painting at different places i...

Unknown artist, Jade Mountain Illustrating  the Gathering of Scholars at the Lanting Pavilion , 1790 Source: Wikimedia Commons Th...

Because this blog focuses on the arts, I have rarely mentioned books by geographers, although it goes without saying that they often write b...

Netherlandish Master, after Jacques Callot,  The Mock Battle Between the Weavers' and Dyers' Guilds on the Arno in Florence...