some LANDSCAPES

In April 2018 I wrote a blog post  here  about blossom viewing: 'last weekend at Kew Gardens the cherry trees were in full bloom. It pr...

Sean Scully, Aran , 2005 Sean Scully was the subject of a profile in the Guardian earlier this year with a clickbaity headline: ''I...

Today I paid a second visit to the Tate's Turner & Constable exhibition. The Guardian  paraphrased Adrian Searle's  review  as ...

A place with a pond , in the fifth month when the rains are falling, is a very moving thing. It's deeply affecting to sit for hours on e...

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...