Always a place I love to visit, British Landscapes: A Sense of Place at Pallant House Gallery brings together work by artists who regard landscape in a variety of ways, but always as more than mere scenery. In this article I will explore work by several artists with whom I feel a connection within my own experience of landscape, making art, and being in the world. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Landscape as presence Paul Nash Paul Nash, Avebury - Landscape of the Megaliths

Introduction In late March I took an impromptu trip to Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. My first experience of this special place came a few years ago when travelling from Swindon to Devizes to see an Eric Ravilious exhibition. This was a new land to me, and I had no real knowledge of the locality. So when the trundling bus, making its way down a small B road, was suddenly in between huge standing stones only a few feet away, I was taken aback and fascinated by thi

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. This journey was not planned as a guide, but as an encounter with the mythic and magical in Devon and Cornwall, following a sense of place rather than a fixed route. Entering the Landscape - The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the

Carl Jung’s reflections from Bollingen reveal a psyche that is not confined to the individual but flows through nature, ancestry, and the deep roots of life. This expanded post explores Jung’s vision of the interconnectedness of self, soul, and the living world.

Expressing the Earth - organised by Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and the University of the Highlands and Islands. The Scottish Centre...