some LANDSCAPES

I was going to write here about Raven Chacon after seeing him perform at Tate Modern's Preemptive Listening Symposium in 2024. I didn...

I recently read this beautiful novel and will mention it here for the way it evokes the Ardennes forest landscape during the winter of 1939-...

In my last blog  post I talked about how disability can impose restrictions on how a landscape is seen and said I would say more about this...

  Alec Finlay has two new books out - here I am holding one of them, ready for borrowing at the National Poetry Library in London. Not Seali...

It is possible that you are not a regular reader of Finnish gaming website Playlab! and so may have missed an article they ran by Sini Jaat...

A 19th century painting showing John Scott looking through a telescope at the Ware valley In 2007 I wrote here about a prospect poem by Joh...

This is a photograph I took at Käsmu in northern Estonia a few days ago. We went there from Tallinn on the bus (there's just one a day, ...

Thanks for continuing to read this blog. Google's Blogger service has long since been overtaken by newer platforms (WordPress, Substack)...

This latticework landscape is currently on display in Kensington High Street at the Japan House exhibition   The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing...

Théodore Rousseau, Swamp in the Landes , after 1844 I have been so impressed by Kelly Presutti's Land into Landscape that I can't r...

  Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges , 1874 This wonderful watercolour is reproduced in K...

In the British Museum's print room you can currently see Raphael to Cozens : Drawings from the Richard Payne Knight bequest. Here are th...

Some landscapes in the Ashmolean's exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Early Works , with quotes from the accompanying wall texts.  Der Rhein (The...

Giuseppe Penone, Albero Folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)   The last Giuseppe Penone exhibition I went to was a joint show with Richard Long ba...

Stendhal's memoir The Life of Henry Brulard describes his childhood in Grenoble in the 1790s, followed by his departure for Paris and en...

 Landscape in the film A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980) Can there be such a thing as an indolent landscape? Ivan Goncharov...

This map of the Great Hedge of India has been on display in Somerset House as part of Salt Cosmologies , an art project by Hylozoic/Desires ...