1/1. After the Ruins by Hugh Clout was a book I studied for my First World War exhibition back in 2018. I was interested in learning how land can recover after war. Hugh's research focused on Northern France after WW1. 92% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed & over 60% of their infrastructure.

Happy October everyone. View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series. Oil on board.

It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x

Afternoon Light The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.

This book has just caught my eye from @peteralanross.bsky.social. Congratulations Peter. It's on my list.

Pendennis Castle, built in 1924, at Didcot.

Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition

Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor here with the plaster of Single Form 1961–4 at the Morris Singer foundry, London,1963 #womensart

Harold James, CMG MBE OBE BSc FISP b.1890. Director, Rubber Research Institute KL. Swam to Pom Pong Island after “Tien Kwang” sinking. Interned at Padang, then at Bankinang Men’s Camp. Sumatra internee. His camp was liberated on 22nd August. Died: 27.1.72. My Great-Grandfather. #VJDay #VJ80Day

Beautiful orange moon above the Berkshire Downs tonight. Reminds me of this painting I did called Glimmering Moon. The title comes from a John Masefield poem. This painting looks over Lollingdon Hill - home and loved landscape of Masefield back in 1914.

Today is the last day to get out for the #BigButterflyCount! Where will you be doing yours? If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚 📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin

Fasinating thread by Philip about our cultivated landscapes since Neolithic times. I am working on a 10 metre panel of public art as part of The Springline Project. Depecting a 4 mile walk in Oxfordshire but also acting as a visual 'baseline' of 2025 for biodiversity, surveyed by scientists.

Phenomenal win by Our Lionesses. Congratulations. Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England. #Lionesses

16.3km walk up on the local Downs. Just beautiful. Connecting with these landscapes gladdens the heart and feeds the soul - it makes you appreciate them more

Sherd Jar with bird design by award-winning Native American, Hopi pottery artist Rainy Naha #WomensArt

A wonderful exhibition all about wasps, brought to us by my lovely friend @waspwoman.bsky.social and the team at UCL. Free and on until next January.

A short and lovely thread from Pat about where we are lucky enough to live.

Local residents have taken action to save one of the most important breeding sites for the Common Tern in Oxfordshire; a raft on Hinksey Lake. The birds nest in the floating raft, which had fallen into disrepair until residents fixed it, and added a second, towing it in to place by kayak.

6th June 1724 Antiquarian William Stukeley draws a view of the #Stonehenge Sarsen Horseshoe viewed from between the outer sarsen circle. See: allabouthistory.co.uk/I8Cw3m5A#JCbGOtMU #archaeology #otd

Next Friday, myself & artist Becky Carrozza, are running an outside, creative event in Cholsey as part of The Springline Project that we are part of. It's a Walk and Draw event & it's free. Details & how to book in the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-s...

Festive bird, 1970 by Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona #WomensArt

Watched the The Salt Path at a local cinema last night. A heartfelt, pure & beautiful film, just like the book by Raynor Winn. It made me want to grab my walking boots immediately! Here are some of my paintings from along the Coastal Path. Selworthy, Somerset. Cornwall & Beer Head, Devon. #saltpath

'Tied rocks' by artist Shizu Okino, using traditional Japanese knotting techniques #WomensArt

Buttercup, Meadow Cranesbill, White Dead Nettle ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: EdithHilder Rowland Hilder

A couple of beauties from Dorset - near Hilfield Hill and the Wessex Ridgeway. #fingerpostfriday

This mindless act upset so many of us. Many artists took to the easel to pay homepage to this wonderful tree and landscape. Mine is called The Sentinel. It lives on in our memories.

‘Horse chestnut’ Trees (1963) Artist: SR Badmin

Early Spring by William Anderson Coffin c. 1910 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

This weekend sees the start of the 6 Bridport Artists Exhibition at Eype Church. Charlotte Miller, Wendy Hermelin, Colleen du Pon, Liz Coxford, Marion Taylor, John Boyd and Sophie Sharp will be exhibiting their work until Easter Monday @annadillon.bsky.social

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

Not planning on visiting the US anytime soon. A sobering read below.

Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter, younger sister of Marcel. One of many women artists who were rendered invisible in culture, while fathers, brothers or male partners as artists were more likely to be celebrated. #WomensHistoryMonth

The ancient Grim’s Ditch snaking its way across farmland up on the downs above East Lockinge. We just don’t know why.

Celebrate the lives of some of the #Chilterns' women & girls this International Women's Day. From straw plaiters to lacemakers, Hidden Hands is a collection of stories, gathered by dedicated volunteers, that brings the past to life. #IWD2025 Order your copy today 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/fusuuestdm

River in Normandy by Fritz Thaulow 1894 (Huntington Museum of Art)

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

Two fasinating and very contrasting books, written in 1965/6 exploring growth & landscape protection in the Thames Valley Region. Commissioned by the Ministry of Housing & Local Government & The Architectural Press.

Norfolk Coast by John Nash c. 1971 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

Consecutive lynchets radiating out from the old hillfort on Blewburton Hill.

Here is the government consultation about this AI copyright issue. Deadline is 25th Feb. ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

Blewburton Hill, with it's oval hillfort overlooking the South Oxfordshire landscape. youtube.com/hedleythorne

🔴‘Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves Must Abandon Their Trumpian Obsession with Economic Growth’ Prioritising growth over all other considerations will only widen economic inequality and deepen already cavernous social crises, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/01/28/k...

❗️Save the date❗️ Europa Conference 2025: Landscape connectivity in Prehistory at Univ of Reading, Sat 7th June 2025. Conference honours achievements of Prof. Martin Bell, Prof of Arch Science at Univ of Reading. Call for papers now live. Info in link: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

You might expect that one of the world's biggest media organisations admitting to illegal practices in accessing private information about a member of the royal family and a government minister would be front page news across the board, but apparently not.

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." G K Chesterton, 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare' (1908).

A winter wonderland up on the Berkshire Downs this morning. Lowbury Hill emerging from a blanket of cold and Juniper Valley in shades of frosty pastels. #northwessexdowns

Starting 2025 in Norfolk, where the skies are big and the wind is biting. The official start/end of The Great Chalk Way, which is The Peddars Way, is where we are walking today. #fingerpostfriday

As we bid farewell to another year, I wanted to thank everyone who supports my work & especially those of you who take the time & trouble to commission me to create a painting for you. Here's a selection of some of them - Wishing you well for 2025.