A similar sense of regret and melancholy underlines ... small in the scale of the landscapes that we were looking at.” Although the coasts of England and Ireland can evoke a moody sensibility ...

It can seem as if landscape painting is the default setting for Irish artists ... of place is linked to a meditative state of dreamy melancholy. Dark clouds loom over The Poisoned Glen in ...

The landscapes are set out so you feel you know ... But in their way is one Melancholy Joe, a freak of a man at seven feet, two inches and 260lbs and now a sort of chief of police on Sanctuary ...

The English-born Clarke coined the term "weird melancholy" in a preface he wrote for fellow writer Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. His description of our landscape has now been ...