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The New Arcadian Journal

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.

Displays & Talks

The Lost Landscapes of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Library Display, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 28 November 2025 to 19 April 2026. 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.

The Artists’ Bookmarket, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Free entry. 14-15 February 2026. Sat 10.30 – 6 and Sun 10.30 – 5. Patrick Eyres will display and discuss the New Arcadian Journals.

Talk. The New Arcadian Press: Lost Artists’ Gardens by Patrick Eyres, 2 pm Saturday 14 February, The Artists’ Bookmarket, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2026. Free. The talk will highlight the way that the New Arcadian Journal has retrieved lost landscapes, from historical landscape gardens and artists’ gardens, to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s proposals for his cancelled Parisian gardens.

Talk. The New Arcadian Journal by Patrick Eyres, 7.30 pm, 11 March 2026, York Bibliographical Society at the York Medical Society Rooms, 23 Stonegate, York. YO1 8AW. For non members of the YBS there is a small fee of £5. The NAJ is the unique fine press book that invites artists and writers to explore the landscape garden. See bibsoc_leaflet_March26

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.