Andrew Ray

Rain spattered watercolour - Turner caught in a shower while painting Cader Idris.

Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

Non-invasive restoration of Chinese landscape painting. www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Gerhard Richter is 94 today

Over stones, under alders On John Bevis's collection of found poems, 'A Surrey Naturalist'

New post on 'A Surrey Naturalist by John Bevis, published by @uniformbooks.bsky.social some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/02/over...

Misty light in the distant vistas of ‘Crossing the Brook’, on show in the Tate’s Turner/Constable show.

We Speak From Out There Remembering R.F. Langley, 1938-2011

On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...

Richard Long at Lisson Gallery.

Lochan Eck Landscape in recent poetry by Alec Finlay

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 Filmmaker, archivist, LGBT film historian and online pioneer Jenni Olson offers recommendations for excellent examples of landscape cinema.

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 of Some Landscapes Text works by Richard Long and Hamish Fulton

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...

I’ve been on that bus a few times now – it counts down to Dagenham and then says you’ve arrived, even if you are heading through the City. I’m sure it will become popular with psychogeographers.

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

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

A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 | The Quietus On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen

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)

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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

A glorious sunburst-streak Caspar David Friedrich in music writing

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.’

Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025) The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet

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.

I remember seeing him talk about and read some of his concrete poems in 2007 at the Small Publishers Fair. He said he had 11 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren but seemed very sprightly. When he talked about the Bauhaus it felt like a direct connection to a long ago world.