@deborahsnell.bsky.social Hello Deborah, good to see you here, thanks for the follow 👊🏻

Stuff going on & the flood gates open the first time since my mum died in August…a weight is lifted but the worries remain…I’ll take that, I wish I could open up more often.

I’m bad at sticking to this, I’m supposed to just be posting original artwork to try and earn some money. Anyway, I’ll try again. Thankfully Bluesky is helping out by behaving like an old calculator you’ve found in a muddy puddle.

Went to see this at the cinema this evening. 25 years since I first saw it 🤯. Poster illustration by Javi Aznarez.

When I finish this spooky ghosty work that I’m doing this year I’m gonna make a mess with these that I’ve found in a drawer. I’ve had them for years & not got around to using them, I feel like experimenting and going off road! * *this will take some time, I’m very happily busy at the moment 👍🏻

Hello :) I'm Tara, I'm a freelance artist, and I love dark, surreal, dreamy art. 👩‍🎨 #portfolioday You can get in touch here: ✉️ [email protected] linktr.ee/tarabushart

The Kickstarter for @crumpledlinenpress.com’s annotated Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad! begins at 5pm. In this video, co-editor Dr. Mark Jones discusses the value of manuscripts and the changes that reveal the evolution of the story.

Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE

We took my mum to see Clannad in York 11/12 years back. She loved them. Farewell to Moya Brennan. This was a favourite of my mums. Clannad - A Dream in the Night. youtu.be/kQoJkX_hvM4

Rest in Peace, Irish musician, Moya Brennan, lead singer of Clannad who has died, age 73. 👇 BBC News - Irish musician Moya Brennan dies aged 73 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you for the reposts and replies to this. Finding a courier who require a signature, insure the package & are upfront about fees and tariffs is proving to be a real head scratcher. It’d be easier to take the package myself!

Hello. I have a question for artists/illustrators…I’m searching for a trustworthy delivery company to send original artwork to the US from the UK. I’d like a service that requires a signature on arrival with the recipient & upfront tariff information. Any info much appreciated. Cheers.

Hello. I have a question for artists/illustrators…I’m searching for a trustworthy delivery company to send original artwork to the US from the UK. I’d like a service that requires a signature on arrival with the recipient & upfront tariff information. Any info much appreciated. Cheers.

“I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is... Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ~ Anne Sexton (1928-1974) #Painting by Joseph Lorusso.

The Original -published- The Woman in Black illustration from chapter 7 “Mr Jerome is Afraid”. Arthur on his bike cycling away from the worries and fear behind him. On Arches Aquarelle 300GSM Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper. Image size: 21.2 x 30cm Paper size: 28.8 x 38.6cm £350 plus P&P.

Another unpublished rough for The Woman in Black. Keckwick driving Arthur towards Eel Marsh House along The Nine Lives Causeway with his horse ‘Barry’* (*I made that name up, not sure if it had a name). Image size: 21.2 x 30 cm £140 plus P&P Email: [email protected]

Another illustration that I made for The Woman in Black. This was the very early days of the project and I thought this was a little too…literal but it did set the tone for the following illustrations. Original artwork: £80 plus p&p Email me at: [email protected]

Original artwork for The Woman in Black. £150 plus P&P (pen not included) 21.2 x 30.5 cm Email: [email protected]

Now come on, I just know there’s got to be at least one of you who’s always wanted a dramatic mood piece for The Woman in Black of a man with a torch & an axe. It’s your lucky day…. Image size: 21 x 29.5 cm £125 plus P&P Email: [email protected]

Another mood piece that I made for The Woman in Black. Who’s haunting who here? Original unpublished artwork. Image size: 21 x 29.5 cm £125 plus P&P Email: [email protected]

Apart from posting Woman in Black/Signalman artwork & sketches that are available to purchase I’m disappearing into new work & admin. I go away from some media & return not long after because I like you all but I’d like to block out sad news for a bit, it’s all a bit much. I’m getting my head down

TMWSTW UK RELEASE IS 55 “For which my reputation swept back home in drag...” The Tony Visconti-produced The Man Who Sold The World (TMWSTW) was released in the UK fifty-five years ago, on Thursday 8th April 1971. Go here for more: www.instagram.com/p/DW42FAcDJD... #BowieTMWSTW

Will you stay inside or go out? music: bonjr - if it's real, then i'll stay

Thirty-six years ago, on April 8, 1990, David Lynch and @markfrost.bsky.social’s TWIN PEAKS pilot introduced a world both wonderful and strange to almost 35 million people. For dreamers and thinkers everywhere, it set off a most beautiful bomb in their imaginations, and continues to do so today. 🏔️🏔️

I know it’s not cool to like U2 but I’m not cool and I like this new song. It makes me feel sad, it makes me miss my ma. U2 - Song for Hal youtu.be/uO8lTJpZAMc

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

Early stages of new work. To those who are patiently waiting for an email from me I’ll be in touch very soon.

Me in the 1970’s. Used to be a sweet boy.

Early stages of new work. To those who are patiently waiting for an email from me I’ll be in touch very soon.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

Me in the 1970’s. Used to be a sweet boy.

I don't often speak with urgency. I know those who sit with me because I affirm the right and need to rest may be those who need it most. But if there was ever a day to burn your anxiety as fuel instead of trying to snuff it out, it's today. Do what you can. Start with one thing. 🧵 Practical steps:

Next up: Britain’s Stoniest Beaches with Ross Kemp

Donald Trump, you are a fucking idiot and I despise you and the people who voted you into this position of power. That’s about as much as I can say. I look forward to the day when I don’t have to feel this way.

My new #poetry book - Let the Quiet Ones Rise - is out in a week or so and the paperback of Normally Weird the week after. I will be visiting many places. Dates from Birmingham to Edinburgh to Helston and Newcastle to Pontypridd are here Robinince.com

Artemis photo of Earth from the far side of the moon. Breathtaking. What a precious and beautiful planet we live on

What’s crazy is that even back then, he knew how sheeplike his base were. Utter lemmings.

Bruce Springsteen -Streets of Philadelphia youtu.be/4z2DtNW79sQ

Managed to look into the window of a bookshop (Grove Bookshop, Ilkley) and not go inside to buy a book. A victory but an empty one. I have LOTS of books, probably more than I can read. I promise that one day I will leave them all to a charity or a library.

The wrestle to get our allotment plot back into shape began early this morning (for me anyway, my partner has been getting up on & with it for a while). It wasn’t too bad a Winter but it’s still given our plot a good biffing, the Leeks look good though! Trying to get an area cleared for a shed.

Van Gogh studied Delacroix’s complementary pairs—yellow/violet, blue/orange—learning how contrast could ignite emotion. From theory and memory, he used his approach to build an emotional grammar of color to process and express feeling.

A magnificent print of a woodcut by Andrew Davidson, for which I'm unfortunately unable to find a title.

David Lynch on his philosophy for catching ideas. ❤️ You can watch the full interview from our edition of his 1980 masterpiece THE ELEPHANT MAN — streaming now.

--- James Baldwin

'Never Leave a Red Sock on the Clothesline' by Shaun Tan (from his book 'Rules of Summer')

Chosen the headstones for me & my better half. Sorted 👍🏻

Loitering around my favourite cemetery on this bright and sunny Easter Monday.

The Arrival Of Spring In Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011, painting by David Hockney (b.1937).

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?