Siccar Point, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders.
landscapes
cloud study
Prehistoric round house, Coquet Valley, Northumberland. On location with Mike Pearson.
Craster – basalt foreshore
Another experiment in hylography – [Link] [Link] Craster, Northumberland UK
Dere Street – the bleak Roman north?
The Roman road runs through the landscape – Scott country – over the modern border between England and Scotland, towards the Eildon Hills and the outpost of Trimontium (on the skyline to the left – click on image to enlarge). Not so bleak on such an August afternoon. Site of the Reidswire Fray – July…
chorography – media materialities
Gallery – [water pigment paper] Working on my text accompaniment to the guide to Paul Noble’s art work, on display currently at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, has had me reflecting again on just how we might describe an encounter, in this case with a world of the imagination, a curiously enigmatic cosmopolis. (As an archaeologist…
Belsay
It looks like one of those wonderful winter late afternoons in the north east of England – sunlight after a morning of heavy rain. Gilbert (Cockton) and Ros (Stansfield) have been out at Belsay, Northumberland [Link] – that extraordinary landscape of classical formalism and gothic romance. Here’s Gilbert’s superb photo of the old border tower…
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