Cold and white here today in Leigh #brrr

Winter Portal ⚪️ #photography 📷

Happy New Year everyone! Here's a snap shot of some things I get up to on a Sunday morning in the studio #studiotime #collage #fragileearth

Happy Winter Solstice folks❄️ #Yuletide

Our gallery is closed after today until Tuesday 7th January, but you can still view HOME: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words on the outside of our building. #openeyegallery #leigh #wigan #ukraine #photography #poetry

Ever fallen (in love)... #windythismorning

Peter Doig, Pink Snow, 1991 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136999

Camille Corot Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau

Herbstabend auf Alsen, Emil Nolde 1903

Moody #SkySunday

'Wild Pool' Mixed media on Paper Private Collection.

Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings

The Pearls. Collage from discarded art books. #titian #coello #studiosunday #collage

Feeling a strong need to go and clamber around some Welsh slate quarries in the fog... Dinorwig, January 2022

Involuntary painting ✨ 📷 #noticing

Father Christmas is out again! Another year survived in the loft, a Christmas miracle. 53years of dragging that lolly stick sleigh😭 Bravo Martyn on your childhood skills☺️ @martynlucas.bsky.social

Congratulations to children from Sacred Heart school who have contributed drawings to Keely Hodgkinson's plaque on our Wall of Fame in Leigh. An 'Our Art Neighbourhood' project with Leigh Neighbours started four years ago, Keely is the 15th person to be included in the mural. #communityart #leigh

Shoals of Autumn leaves 🍂 #photography #noticing 📷

Simon Denis, Landscape near Rome during a Storm Flemish, ca. 1786–1806

Peter Doig, Daytime Astronomy, 1997 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120435

If you’re looking for a fabulous gift this Christmas, I can’t recommend Nick’s book enough @northernmailman.bsky.social Packed with nostalgia, wit & genuine relatable voices. Loved it!

It’s tough being an artist these days, as confirmed by this new research published in Artnet: U.K. Artists’ Earnings Dropped 40 Percent Since 2010. Some 80 percent of artists surveyed reported that their earnings were “unstable” or “very unstable.” news.artnet.com/art-world/uk...

Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings

slipway (day 91) #photography #OneCameraOneLens #photooftheday #365project #nature www.clcart.co.uk/post/one-a-d...

Trees in Fog, Chile, 1939 by John Swope

Mountain Landscape I, Emil Nolde c.1948

Twenty five years ago today this marvellous human arrived into our lives❤️ Happy Birthday Joe! @martynlucas.bsky.social

Remembering with love good friends gone & celebrating those living life to the fullest ❤️❤️❤️ #NoMoreStigma

A powerful and moving exhibition of Ukrainian photography curated by Max Gorbatskyi & Viktoria Bavykina at the Turnpike Gallery. Delighted to host this show from Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool before its final display at UK Parliament in March 2025. #leigh #wigan #photography #ukraine #contemporaryart

Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings

All change at the gallery. One exhibition taken down and a new one to install for Saturday. More painting of walls still to do. This is an in-between moment. #curatorslife

Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010

Laurie Anderson last night 🤍 ARK: United States V a show that gives you an insight into her brain…synapses sparking!

Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings

Last Chance to See Beyond the Surface 📣 Only a few days left to see Beyond the Surface at the #TurnpikeGallery, #Wigan. Explore 10 years of #FallenAngelsDanceTheatre & experience digital dance installation: Samadhi. Until 23 Nov. Find out more: portraitsofrecovery.org.uk/whats-on/bey...

Something a bit different... Off and on over the last couple of years, I've worked with local children on developing a Wall of Fame in Leigh, celebrating local cultural and sporting heroes. Here are some drawings for the latest addition. Keely's plaque will be unveiled in a couple of weeks!

Plastic nature. #My400 📷

A few more from my trip to photograph the ancient oaks of Drum Wood in Aberdeenshire. They're amazing trees. They're like some sort of huge tentacled whippy crazy creatures. Well worth a visit if you're in Aberdeenshire, even on a dull overcast day like this was. #trees #oaks #photography 🌳📷

Just published @theguardian.com #artistslivelihoods hampered by #artspolicy favouring of #artsinstutions www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

15 minutes can make a difference… #SkySunday

Manchester / Salford tomorrow, 18th November, 2024 First Light: 06.18 Sunrise: 07.40 Sunset: 16.07 Nightfall: 17.29 Pic: Bridgewater Canal, #Salford

Studio time. Another collage with a brooding, melancholic feel; partly from the images I'm using (discarded old books featuring Renaissance painters) and partly because they are imbued with a sense of our current political & environmental situation. #fragileearth #woundedlandscape #collage #drowning

Involuntary painting ✨ 📷

Interstitial Upper Kananaskis Lake Alberta, Canada

Sit awhile 🍂 #photography 📷

Studio time. The Watcher. Collage using found images from old art books. #woundedlandscape #gordalescar #jamesward #grunewald

Involuntary painting ✨ 📷

Rain (Study) https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/rain-study-1960

Frank Auerbach is pictured at work in his studio (1931-2024) #RIP

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” •Franz Kafka #photography 📷