Urban composition, Belfast...

Field notes, late August.

The field, mid- August, am and pm...

Weekend notes from the field...

Today is the 135th anniversary of Van Gogh's death. He has long remained my painter's touchstone. Some more notes from another field...

'Figures by a Water Tank', oil on canvas, 2025

Notes from another field #2...

Notes from another field.

Field notes, late July.

Field notes, early July.

Field notes, late Spring.

Hedgerow report, Spring no.1

Field notes. Spring no.4

Field notes, Spring, no.3

Field notes, Spring no.2

Three weeks of a work in progress...

Zona | Mark McGreevy at Ulster University Art Gallery Mark McGreevy: Zona showcases a compelling new series of drawings and paintings created over the past five years, reflecting the artist's fascination with sentient landscapes as a repository for materials and visualartists.ie/events/zona-...

Do art debates like this even take place anymore? I mean on the level of argument and interrogation. The extraordinary recordings by John Link, of the Mountain Lake Symposium in 1980...

In two days: this Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30pm, I'll be in conversation with environmental scientist Peter Groffman at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Very excited for this event! Free and open to the public, in-person and online; reservations required: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...

Field notes, Spring, no.1

A book about the history of iconophagy – eating images – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read, writes Tim Smith-Laing.

If you need a pick-me-up today, definitely check out this lovely video posted by @libbyr.bsky.social of Wayne Thiebaud talking earnestly about Rosa Bonheur's majestic painting "The Horse Fair" at the Met Museum. Love how he identifies himself: "My name is Wayne Thiebaud. I'm a painter & teacher."

In one week, Wed. April 23 at 6:30pm, I'll be in conversation with environmental scientist Peter Groffman at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Very excited for this event. Free and open to the public, in-person and online; reservations required www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...

One of the best ever painting books, by Julian Bell...the last page of What Is Painting? ends with the most intriguing statement to have been made on the subject:

For Ellen Cantor hyperallergic.com/340652/for-e... Beautiful article.

5.45pm

The beginning of a painting is a curious space - you half watch, and half think about, what is going down, whilst leaving space for the unexpected.

As Far As The Eye Can See dougalmckenzie.online/as-far-as-th...

Andrew Cranston, 'Painterly problems' oil on board

Leigh Hunt, the Unstoppable Critic Convicted and imprisoned for libeling the Prince Regent, Hunt capitalized on his incarceration by turning his prison cell into a newsroom and grand salon. By: Emily Zarevich daily.jstor.org/leigh-hunt-t... #books #literature #journalism

Evening through the hedgerow...

Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage

#Arch #BlueSkyArtShow #Lisboa

From Tolstoy's funeral, via the autocrat's use of technology to control the masses, to Michelangelo's Awakening Slave - all feature in the final episode of Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation'. Great.

I have only recently discovered the work of #MoiraDryer (1957-92). It is wonderful...

Flannery O'Connor Wanted to Shake Her Readers Awake. Her Family Wanted Her to Write the Next 'Gone With the Wind' This year marks the writer’s 100th birthday. By Ellen Wexler www.smithsonianmag.com/history/flan... #books #literature

My recent Google searches have been, if nothing else, eclectic...

This is great. #WilliamKentridge It's on #MUBI It's wonderful. It's really wonderful.

When "The Twilight Zone" Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper

I just started watching the series "Self Portrait as a Coffee Pot" by William Kentridge, and it's rad. So many thoughts on: 1) artmaking and the creative process, 2) being in the studio / the studio being an extension of your person and brain, 3) talking to your other selves

Orson Welles, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1938 #OrsonWelles #Photography #FilmSky

I like the answer to “What are the two seasons in Toronto?” And Mark Carney’s a natural!

Hedgerow.

Wonderful talk by #AlvaroBarrington at The MAC in Belfast yesterday. Generous, funny, intricately woven and very thought provoking.

The lovely thing about Bluesky is that no-one unfollows you. (Please don't unfollow me.)🤣

Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made

Hey artsy babes! Did you listen to last week's episode?? It's available on anchor.fm/theoryish !

How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Iconic Painting Nighthawks

The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It