Drive south of Edinburgh past the Pentland Hills and you might expect to see rugged landscape, rolling hills and drystane dykes. From gorgeous Georgian town houses to jaw-dropping penthouses, ...

Set in the Pentland Hills, near the South Lanarkshire clachan of Dunsyre, Little Sparta is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work of art. It is a garden of ideas and poetry, with works in stone, wood, ...

IN this extract from her new book, Jessie Sheeler explains how the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay came to create the defining work of his career Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

For more than 30 years, one of Scotland's most admired and influential artists worked on a garden that not only contained works of art, but is, in itself, his greatest work of art. Ian Hamilton Finlay ...

To mark the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay later this year, the poet and artist is the subject of ‘Fragments’, a new expansive book and exhibition from Victoria Miro. Below, you can find The ...

Over the last few weeks we've visited the garden of the children's author and illustrator, May Gibbs; we've played with satyrs in the risque garden of the painter and sculptor Nornman Lindsay and this ...

Poet, sculptor, printmaker, gardener, designer… Ian Hamilton Finlay defied categorisation. His art garden in Lanarkshire, 25 miles south-west of Edinburgh, is arguably Scotland’s most popular piece of ...

Survival amid the raw, windswept beauty of the Pentland Hills has challenged generations of shepherds and farmers. Forty years ago, something altogether more fragile - a poetry garden - took its place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden at "Little Sparta", in Lanarkshire, there's a small upright stone, like a milestone or a ...