Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887

Coming everyday next week, on Radio 4, Hayden Lorimer's expanded vision of our work on wintering well and SAD. The nights are fair drawing in www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

Starbank We follow the sun into the corner of the garden. When the shadow comes we know (with- out knowing) to slowly walk ’til we find it (or were we letting it find us), again? Finding (without looking), and looking (without finding), may- be a beautiful way of living (of loving).

Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133995

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. Moriz Nähr’s portrait of Ludwig Wittgenstein, nd 1930s, and LW118, the ruins of the LW house in Skjolden, Norway 2001-2005. Happy Birthday Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951

Alec Finlay's recollections of his early life at Stonypath, published in the May issue of 'The World of Interiors', is now available online (saving you buying a copy, or finding a branch of WHSmiths to read it for nothing). www.worldofinteriors.com/story/ian-ha...

Easter Sepulchre, Lincoln Cathedral 1895. Lantern slide by Frederick Evans. Happy Easter

Join us 30 May for an afternoon of readings, discussion & display celebrating artist books & visual poetry. Verse Verso brings together poets, artists, curators & more to explore the material word today. Book now → warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/verse... #VisualPoetry #ArtistBooks

I’m showing some works in ‘Cabane’ in Le Delta, Belgium, opening this Friday until 20 July 2025 with Atelier Van Lieshout, James Benning, Gregory Crewdson, Hrein Fridfinnsson, Nathalie du Pasquier, Ryan Gander, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Sophie Nys, Joanna Piotrowska et al; curated by Anaël Lejeune.

I’m showing some works in ‘Cabane’ in Le Delta, Belgium, opening this Friday until 20 July 2025 with Atelier Van Lieshout, James Benning, Gregory Crewdson, Hrein Fridfinnsson, Nathalie du Pasquier, Ryan Gander, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Sophie Nys, Joanna Piotrowska et al; curated by Anaël Lejeune.

Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church, 1779 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112567

A rare interview with W.G. Sebald by the brilliant James Wood, in July, 1997 (when Sebald’s only book in English was The Emigrants). It was from a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center, New York. brickmag.com/an-interview...

What a turn up…an unexpected problem with Munch’s portraits…https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/16/edvard-munch-portraits-national-portrait-gallery-london-review

who will be right in the end, who will have fathomed the right. Of chance they sing descending. Of chance. And the winds blow. And the motives hiss. ‘The Falling’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A profoundly moving—and at times touchingly funny—but very beautiful portrait of Julian’s mum who has Alzheimer’s (& no or very little memory) by @julianlass.com just broadcast on Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Ramon described the hidden landscape in the Lütken portrait as “a mystery left by Munch only for the sharpened minds.”’ There should be more hidden landscapes like this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The present order is the disorder of the future." – Ian Hamilton Finlay The poet, artist, and garden designer afloat at Little Sparta, Pentland Hills, Scotland, 1996. Photo by Robin Gillanders.

Little Sparta from the air.

I have lost faith in space, depth, dimension, completion, in the act of moving through the world in one piece. In being one piece. ‘Outside the Work’, a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it didn’t feel like that. Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica were far away. The worry, however, was that the Altadena fire would spread.’ Colm Tóibín writes from LA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death.

A warm welcome to new friends and followers on Bluesky! Barns-Graham's lovely ink and wash drawing from 1991- 'Linear Meditation 3'. You can find a lot more about Barns-Graham on our website here - https://buff.ly/4gKpVXe

Signal Lights: "The Unpainted Landscape" (1987), published by Coracle Press. This book introduced me to Roger Ackling, Herman de Vries & so many others. It ends with a beautiful text by Clark titled "In Praise of Walking." Pictured: Roger Ackling's "Five Sunsets in One Hour.

Flower No.5, 1998, 5x4 inch polaroid made as a poetic elegy for JG Ballard’s The Garden of Time. I originally showed it placed next to/opposite my portraits of houses exhibited Kettle’s Yard and EAST 1999. The photographer—woodworker—storyteller Graham Smith made the frame.

Flower No.5, 1998, 5x4 inch polaroid made as a poetic elegy for JG Ballard’s The Garden of Time. I originally showed it placed next to/opposite my portraits of houses exhibited Kettle’s Yard and EAST 1999. The photographer—woodworker—storyteller Graham Smith made the frame.

The imprint of Hastings-based artist and designer Roelof Bakker, Negative Press London explores the potential of the relationships between image, text and form, while addressing contemporary issues and historical events. New titles launch at #smallpublishersfair24, Conway Hall, London, 25/26 October

Double Butted is the Southampton-based imprint of printmaker & bookbinder Katherine Anteney and photographer Simon Griggs. Limited edition handmade, handprinted books, posters & prints about cycling & landscape. Explore their work at #smallpublishersfair24 25/26 October smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. Happy Birthday Sol LeWitt, 1928-2007. Photograph by Jack Robinson Sol LeWitt, New York August 1969 Wall Drawing #370, 1982

‘He would walk in the countryside for hours each day, sketching trees, plains, marshes, mossy undergrowth, boulders, dead branches. The humidity of the forests seems to rise from his canvases.’ Sarah Gould on the paintings of Théodore Rousseau: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

IM Derek Jarman Monday 19 February 1990 I counted 77 blooms on the early daffodils I planted two years ago. They are multiplying very slowly. At the water’s edge the sea kale is sprouting. The plants have small leaves of two or three inches; they are a deep purple. Modern Nature —

Henri Fantin-Latour—happy birthday, 1836. These three paintings this Sunday morning.. Lilas, 1872 Still Life with Roses and Fruit, 1863 A favourite—Yellow Roses, 1883 from Southampton City Art Gallery

Visiting Kettle’s Yard last week after a far too long absence to see the Li Yuan-Chia show, I was reminded how very beautiful—and beautifully poignant St Peter’s church is—which I remember Michael Harrison showing me 25 years ago. Jim Ede left such a legacy.