Andrew Ray, on my last collection of poems, Not Sealions But Lions by the Sea. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/08/loch...

Landscape cinema starter kit (2016) mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Emerging from flu, looking at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham glaciers book.

Peter Doig’s ‘Music of the Future’ at the Serpentine. I thought I might be irritated by paintings accompanied by music but I really enjoyed it – the music is excellent and not ‘blasted’ as you might think from the Guardian review.

Lawrence Lek’s ‘NOX’ at Goldsmiths CCA.

Twenty years and over 1200 posts - I still enjoy doing this, even though the days when people wrote and read blogs are long gone... some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twen...

Ben Enwonwu’s ‘River Niger Landscape’ (1965) at Tate Modern.

Landscape of the Megaliths: Ħaġar Qim.

Lucy Raven’s video installation ‘Murderers Bar’ (2025) about the undamming of a river is excellent. Free to see at the Barbican

‘From the top of the Great Pyramid, Giza’ (c.1938), in the Tate’s Lee Miller exhibition.

Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...

Nice little Wilhelmina Barns-Graham show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958

Obituary for Ian Monk, le punk de l'Oulipo.

Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages) thequietus.com/culture/book...

Got the Tate members stuff today and was struck again by the fact they seem to have stopped having artist talks or symposiums. I've seen Roni Horn, Dan Graham, Hamish Fulton and others there... Checked online and it says "The Starr Cinema is perfect for corporate events and presentations..."

Landscape beneath my feet at V&A East Storehouse

It is Caspar David Friedrich‘s birthday and The Wire’s 500th issue. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-gl...

Emily Kam Kngwarray’s ‘The Alhalker Suite’, which ‘offers an aerial perspective of the winding waterways, sandplains and the variable geography of Alhalker.’

I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...

Scott Joplin rags as a garden in ‘Olio’ by Tyehimba Jess.

Ian Penman on Erik Satie

Kiefer or Van Gogh? This is 18 year old Kiefer inspired by Van Gogh. Excellent exhibition at the RA.

On nature cure memoirs (not for the first time Richard Mabey was ahead of the curve with ‘Nature Cure’). But this kind of writing has many antecedents… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Robert Wilson’s KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: 'a site-specific fantasia, a ritual and a pilgrimage across the seven hills of the arid rocky terrain of the Haft Tan Mountain.' some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2013/04/ka-m...

Popped into the reopened NG Sainsbury Wing at lunch and was greeted by an old favourite at the top of the stairs.

Stones and 21st century Morris dancers process up Whitehall this morning for Jeremy Deller’s The Triumph of Art.

‘The Clarkson’s Farm of art retrospectives’ according to JJ, but I’d like to see this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A new low tech email subscription feature on the blog. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/07/past...

Interesting how culture has influenced this list www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Sunset in the Archipelago’ (1879) by Fanny Churberg. Saw some lovely landscapes by her arranged by time of day in ‘Crossing Borders’, an exhibition of women artists at Helsinki’s Ateneum.

“Here the shortest path isn’t the simplest…”

Splendid grotto. I recommend a visit - just £2.

Kumiko latticework folding screen at the Japan House exhibition on ‘The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests.’

Talking to my son about Zen so I dug out my old Readers & Writers comic book guide ‘Zen for Beginners’. Haven’t looked at this since the eighties but it is pretty good.

Two neolithic stone circles, one on land and one underwater. ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’ (1950) in the new Tate Ithell Colquhoun exhibition.

Great evening at the RGS talking about the architecture Venice Biennale with Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Cave_bureau, Owen Hopkins and Kathryn Yusoff.

This mountain is part of a Turkish shadow puppet theatre, on display in the British Museum.

I’m really enjoying this book by Kelly Presutti - just been reading some fascinating stuff about mountains.

Rocky Irish landscape mix tape www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

Paul Thek landscapes painted on newspaper, 1973

Another early Kiefer that we saw in Oxford - he’s always liked a muddy field. Now looking forward to the RA’s Kiefer/Van Gogh show - I wonder if they’ll have one of Van Gogh’s ‘Ploughed Field’ paintings… some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/05/der-...

Spending the Bank Holiday with Anselm Kiefer’s early work at the Ashmolean.

Just been watching Do Ho Suh’s panoramic film of Robin Hood Gardens in his Tate Modern retrospective.

Been getting this magazine since I was a student and still get a thrill when it arrives through the letterbox.

12 varieties of cherry tree and 21 of dwarf pear tree listed in the plan for John Evelyn’s garden. Enjoyed the British Library’s new ‘Unearthed’ exhibition but wish it could have been silent, without intrusive videos of people talking - ironic in a library.

On May 16 1689 Matsuo Basho and his disciple Kawai Sora set off from Edo on the narrow road to the deep north. On May 16 2010 Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn set off from Edinburgh on ‘The Road North’. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2010/07/road...

A Giuseppe Penone tree in Hyde Park today.

Looking forward to seeing this - Geology of Britannic Repair youtu.be/Rzb7G2tKX_I?...

Blessed by rainbows - Ian Hamilton Finlay at Victoria Miro. online.victoria-miro.com/ian-hamilton...

Return of the Mac. New book sounds good. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...