Stonypath

work by Finlay

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land art

  • St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
    In Western painting: Land art

    …is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden, Stonypath, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Dotted with clumps of trees harbouring stone tablets inscribed with allusive epigrams, it speaks knowingly of the 18th-century principle of the Picturesque rather than courting the sublime effects of American land art.

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