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John Gray
JOHN GRAY is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he…March 31, 2015James Lovelock
JAMES LOVELOCK is an environmentalist, author and chemist best-known for his invention of the ‘electron capture detector’ and as the pioneer of Gaia Theory. He is the author of over 200 scientific…October 14, 2014Charles Rangeley-Wilson
CHARLES RANGELEY-WILSON is a lifelong plant lover and gardener. She trained as a fine artist and worked as a teacher before setting up her own nursery. She began exhibiting at Royal Horticultural…July 16, 2014Ray Ward
RAY WARD graduated from Trent Polytechnic in Fine Art in 1983, where he specialised in painting, performance and video. He has been practising as a self employed artist ever since and has lectured…May 19, 2014Paul Nash
Paul Nash (1889–1946) was one of the most original British artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Primarily a painter in oils and watercolour, he was also an accomplished book…May 12, 2014Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion is a poet, novelist and biographer. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published celebrated biographies: The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life…May 12, 2014Jonathan Gibbs
JONATHAN GIBBS Educated at the Central School of Art and the Slade, Jonathan Gibbs works in wood engraving, drawing and painting. Living in Scotland he regularly exhibits in Edinburgh and London and…February 25, 2014Richard Benson
RICHARD BENSON is an English author, journalist and critic. He grew up on a small farm in Yorkshire, was educated at King’s College, London, and began his professional writing career as a…February 25, 2014Kurt Jackson
KURT JACKSON was born is 1961 in Blandford, Dorset. He graduated from St Peter’s College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology in 1983. While there, he spent most of his time painting…February 9, 2014Bridget McCrum
BRIDGET McCRUM is primarily a stone-carver but works in plaster for many bronze pieces. Influenced by archaeological finds and by the work of Brancusi, Hepworth and Moore, her sculpture also contains oblique…January 9, 2014John Berger
JOHN BERGER is an English art critic, novelist, painter, poet and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His seminal essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, was written as…January 9, 2014Philip Marsden
PHILP MARSDEN is the author of a number of award-winning books, including The Bronski House, The Crossing Place, The Levelling Sea and Rising Ground. His work has been translated into fifteen languages…September 25, 2013
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THE CLEARING is an online journal published by Little Toller Books that offers writers and artists a dedicated space in which to explore and celebrate the landscapes we live in. Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come. But each must be meaningful, surprising, felt.
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