some LANDSCAPES

I just finished reading this wonderfully depressing novel by Jon Fosse. It is about the Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig (1830-190...

Utagawa Hiroshige, Listening to Insects at  D ō kan  Hill ,  from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital,  1835-1845  This is one o...

  At the Small Publishers Fair last year I caught a reading by John Bevis from  A Surrey Naturalist , his new collection of eighty found poe...

  Lucy Raven, Deposition, Dam Breach, 16, 2024 This picture, which I saw yesterday at the Lisson Gallery in London, appears to show a mount...

This is a photograph I took on Boxing Day of Mounts Pond on Blackheath. The small mound with trees behind it is now called Whitfield Mount a...

I recently read this lovely new book about the glacier pictures of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. I've written about these before: the 1949 tr...

Richard Long, Ten Days Walking and Sleeping on Natural Ground (1986) - one of three screenprints.  Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of thi...

Just a brief post this time, which I suspect is of mainly personal interest... Last week my wife was presenting at a human rights law meetin...

I was curious to see the White Cube's Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition but conflicted after the recent controversy surrounding his firework per...

Tatiana Trouvé, Le voyage vertical , 2022 from the series  Les dessouvenirs The Pinault Collection is currently hosting a major retrospectiv...

It could be said that a landscape view provides a crucial turning point in  Njál's saga . Gunnar, the reluctant warrior, is drawn into a...

Here I am a few days ago, posing for scale so that you can see how big these 18th century landscape paintings are. They are the work of Gius...

Pat Suet-Bik Hui, Painting with Poem by Wang Wei , 1995 This is one of the paintings on show in the Ashmolean at the moment, in a small exhi...

The Wire magazine, which I referenced yesterday, has just put out its 500th issue. I started reading it in 1987 when I was a student, buyin...

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...