Category: north
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Trailing Tom Thomson – Oxtongue River & Algonquin Park

This post has been sat in draft form for god knows how long! But it is something I have really wanted to write about so here goes… So a slight detour from the usual Scandinavian obsession, to write about something a little different, but also a large part of my PhD – Canadian landscape painting.…
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"True North" – A Response to the ‘Idea of North’

I don’t intend for this to be a review of a book, but rather a personal response to the idea of a ‘true north’, and how much of how we identify the north and south is subjective, and entirely personal and emotional. I’m also writing this listening to Roxette, The Ballads – why not completely…