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Current edition: NAJ 81/82, Virtuous Landscapes marks the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006, and is the companion to NAJ 77/78, Atlantic Flowers.

Previous edition: NAJ 79/80, The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle, 3rd edition, updated with new material. See Back Issues for other publications relating to the Yorkshire Wentworths.

Portrait of Patrick Eyres by Wayne Clough, 2025

Displays & Talks

The Lost Landscapes of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 28 November 2025 to 19 April 2026. Library Display to mark the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). By publishing proposals for unrealized commissions, the New Arcadian Press has compiled a printed archive of these lost landscapes. The 80 realised landscape installations are catalogued in NAJ 61/62 (2007) Selected Landscapes. Of the eight proposals displayed, four are featured in the companion NAJs, 77/78 (2022) Atlantic Flowers and 61/82 (2025) Virtuous Landscapes, including the two government commissions in Paris that were so scandalously cancelled in 1988.

Talk.The Lost Landscapes of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Others by Patrick Eyres, 6 pm, Wednesday, 1 April 2026, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Free. Book via the HMI website. The talk will focus on the role of the New Arcadian Journal in recording and retrieving lost landscapes: historical landscape gardens, artists’ gardens and Finlay’s landscape installations, especially his cancelled Parisian gardens.