British artist, born in 1945 in Bristol,
England, studied at St. Martin's School of Art in the early sixties, still
lives and works in Bristol. He works mainly on land-based installations, which
he creates during long walks across landscapes varying from ice to desert mountains to cities: powerful yet ephemeral sculptures that
use the simplest of means, often a circle of stones. Then he takes photographs, and
makes text works which record the journey, and allow the
observer to feel present in the landscape that he documents. He has
created works in Iceland, the Sierras, New York, the Sahara and Bristol,
amongst other places. He describes his work as "a formal and holistic description of the
real space and experience of landscape and its most elemental materials."
To take a look: http://www.richardlong.org.