Here is another flower painting/drawing from 2017, featuring our cat Millie who appeared in quite a few artworks. I'm afraid she is no longer with us (age-related illness) #art #watercolour #indianink #dippen #botanicalart

An oil on board from April 2017 showing flowers from the garden and a few still life objects. This painting was sold. #art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart

I produce flower paintings every year but it's dim and dismal out there with pouring rain and very little subject matter. Taking a look back at photos of some older work in progress from a decade ago #art #painting #botanicalart

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

A few pastels taken out of storage and laid out on a table when having a sort-out a while ago (and then bundled up and put away again with all the others). I have a lot of work stored away.

The Tories have ruthlessly and consistently used the charter to gerrymander the BBC management to their tastes. Labour will have to ignore the collective screeching howls of Tory non-dom media owners and get the butchers apron on.

Four older oil paintings of mine (info in alt text).

These three new paintings are on display at the www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org exhibition commencing today with the preview Saturday 25th Oct, 12 noon to 3 pm. The exhibition at the Leys School, Cambridge continues until Sat 1st Nov open every day from 10am to 4pm.

Labour delivering on the economy, child protection and speeding up Windrush payments. It’s just in a week’s work for Labour only you don’t hear about it in the amplification of our Media for RW politics. This is what left wing politics means. Every day!

Good for him! Art is the expression of the human soul and the tech bros who think AI can steal it all and recombine it into something of value don't have souls.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Labour has a lot to celebrate this week. Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives. 8 important changes:

Cambridge May Week scene, oil on canvas board. Painted quickly a while ago but left among unfinished work waiting for me to decide what to do with it. I've decided not to do anything.

A selection of past work with the theme of "ponds"

AI: the "engineered collapse of belief in human creativity". It's a good way of putting it. Creative people (and I like to think I'm one of them) are still using traditional media such as paint and canvas. There is no beauty in AI images or authorship because it says nothing about the human heart.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Lively pastel drawing in the garden from two years ago. #art #pastel #pleinair

Three recent oil paintings being prepared for the autumn Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition at the Leys School. They are not large (61 cm longest side). They are all painted in my own garden with some retouching in the studio. #art #oilpainting #garden

Two of my older oil paintings of musicians, sold a long time ago. These are quite small.

Cambridge street scene, watercolour/gouache and Indian ink.

Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!

Life drawing in pastel on grey paper, model with arms raised.

Pencil drawing of lamps, pot plants and copper kettle.

Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.

Large pastel portrait of L from 1990 on a sheet of grey Ingres paper She has several of my portraits but now lives too far away for me to add to them. This one is still in a portfolio along with quite a few others.

Multiple credible sources confirm that foreign state actors, among them the Russian Federation and Belarus, have deliberately weaponised illegal migration as part of their hybrid warfare strategy, targeting EU Member States. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Entire agency needs to be RIFd

Absolutely disgusting. Way to go to do deep damage to the US / SK relationship. If U.S. brands weren't already in trouble in Korea they sure as hell are now. koreabizwire.com/in-seoul-ang...

“South Korea’s labour minister has said ‘not even prisoners of war’ would be treated as badly as hundreds of Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities following a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.”

He could have been predicting AI.

Richard a reckoning is coming for these DOMESTIC TERRORISTS for sure! They have fundamentally DEVASTATED many of our systems and inner structures to the point of requiring complete replacement; which might not be ALL bad since it works primarily for the wealthy and always has.

They're falling like ninepins but the gutter press tells us they're the unstoppable next government.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Watercolour and Indian ink live sketch of a Cambridge amateur orchestra.

Life drawing, Indian ink with dip pen. The model was Karen.

As long as these autocrats back each other up, democracies will be targeted by this group of rogue nations. Democracies must fight back! #Russia #China #NorthKorea #Iran #India #USA

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor

My latest garden oil painting progressing today. That's a very long-spouted watering can! The plant on the left is a mahonia.

Britain isn’t being “overrun” by migration — it’s being sustained by it. The Bear argues politicians on all sides owe voters honesty about this simple fact.

😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)

Russian fascists are now invading Ukraine while proudly displaying Russian and American flags. Maybe this ought to be a wake up call for certain people.

The good fight continues: News doesn't keep showing it, but people keep protesting abuses of power, corruption & cruelty of tRump & gang. #resist dictatorship protest event in San Jose CA on 16 Aug 2025. Pro #democracy #50501

Working today on this oil on canvas in the garden. Must try not to overdo it. The plants are on a table under a couple of apple trees. Also includes an old African carving of a standing figure holding a staff. #art #oilpainting

Veterans face dire new health care crisis thanks to Trump https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/8/2337430/-Veterans-face-dire-new-health-care-crisis-thanks-to-Trump?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Fascism is expensive.

A very old still life drawing from when I played electric guitar and was briefly in a rock band. I still play instruments (mostly mandolin and fiddle) but no longer in public. I just mess about with jigs and reels when not painting.

This is now updated with the latest items from the past week - another 11 calls and meetings for the UK PM with world leaders, bringing us up to 334.