UNQUIET LANDSCAPE

How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, ‘the spirit in the mass’ to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters’ ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden. Each of the thirteen chapters in this book explores a theme and its significance for one or more of the artists.