Sandra Apperloo, contemporary potter (aka The Pottery Parade) #WomensArt

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" was first published #OTD in 1925. The novel is set on a single day in London in June 1923 and is widely celebrated as a masterpiece of modernist literature for its pioneering use of stream-of-consciousness storytelling. #litsky #booksky #skybrarian

there are peoples not a few, of whom we know scarce anything, save that they thought such and such forms beautiful. So strong is the bond between history and decoration, that in the practice of the latter we cannot, if we would, wholly shake off the influence of past times over what we do at present

'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

Canberra is forecast to reach just 10°C, with snow likely on the nearby ranges and a frosty weekend to follow. Weatherzone

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

'Orange Tree' embroidery design by May Morris ( 1862 – 1938) pioneering English embroidery designer, jeweller, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, who founded organisations to help female artists #Womensart

'A sign such as men never saw before was seen in the heavens’ #OTD in 1066, and remained for at least seven nights. It was Halley’s Comet on one of its periodic visitations. Chronicler William of Jumièges wrote, ‘Many people said it portended a change in some kingdom.’

Clarice Cliff, English ceramics designer, Blue Firs bowl, 1934, Art Deco range #WomensArt

“I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.” Katherine Cebrian

You may be surprised that this woodblock print is actually by a Scottish artist, Elizabeth Keith, who lived in Japan for a decade ~ with blue & white colouring in the clothes worn by woman & shopkeeper, the umbrella, curtains, ceramic plates, & print of The Great Wave on the wall (1925)

Liz Huppert. Contemporary stained glass artist #WomensArt #Spring

Quite wonderful in “real life” … memorable

Bunny and buns 🥰

#Easter Leaping Hare and Comet (date unlisted) by Scottish artist and printmaker, Ian McCulloch (born in 1935). Hand produced linocut 30 x 40 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Historically this appears to be the first time that #drought is mentioned #OED #etymology

Sad news for the cartoon world today, Glen Baxter, one of my longtime favorites, stopped scribbling on March 29... Here are two of his works in situ @newberrylibrary.bsky.social... #RIP

Maids of Honour panel, 1890s, designed & embroidered by #MayMorris (British, 1862-1938), who was born #otd, March 25. William Morris Gallery, wmgallery.org.uk/object/maids... #artherstory #womenartists

William Morris, Arts & Crafts designer, translator of Icelandic sagas, founder of Kelmscott press, born #OTD 1834. Kelmscott Chaucer 1896, Stanford University | Snakeshead printed textile 1877, Victoria & Albert Museum | Portrait by George Frederick Watts 1870, NationalPortrait Gallery London

Can’t come soon enough Humidity has been 😡

Daniel Toole has taken a year off work to walk around the world with his 18-year-old, non-verbal son, Ashton, who is living with autism spectrum disorder and Tourette syndrome.

The sleep of reason produces monsters: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), great Spanish Romantic artist, 'last Old Master & first Modern'; influenced Delacroix, Manet, Picasso. Aquatint, No. 43, Los Caprichos, c. 1797 | ‘Third of May 1808’ painted 1814. Museo del Prado

Artwork by contemporary printmaker Diana Catchpole #WomensArt #MadMarchHare

Sophie Ryder, English sculptor who developed her hybrid hare women sculptures as a counterpart to the Minotaur of Ancient Greek mythology #womensart #MadMarchHares

Fabric design by Vanessa Bell, sister of Viginia Woolf, dating from 1913 #WomensArt

“… the power of museums and the power of culture, that it can almost transcend politics and do what politics is struggling to do.”

One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.

St Pancras station this evening. The Bayeux Tapestry is coming! Through the tunnel (but not on Eurostar). Making the journey on dry land, unlike when it went from Canterbury to Bayeux in the 1070s.

This has been felt strongly across Canberra and also felt in Sydney. The last significant earthquake in this area was a magnitude 4.1 in late 2022. The largest on record in the area was a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in 1930.

One of Rubens’s most important commissions—his monumental painting for the Whitehall Ceiling at Banqueting House in central London—is reopening to the public following extensive renovations and conservation work. #earlymodern www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/09/m...

Irena Sibrijnsa, Dutch-born, UK-based potter #womensart

How was this 14 hours ago 🙃

Peacock teapot by Carol Long, US ceramicist who draws influences from Art Nouveau and plant and animal life #WomensArt

Sunday

Let’s hope it makes it over the Brindabellas this time 🤞☔️

I’m so in for The Mandalorian and Grogu. It just looks…fun. Sometimes that’s all I want. I’m excited for a new pulp adventure set in a galaxy far, far away. #starwars #filmsky youtu.be/IHWlvwu8t1w?si

frid-hengest, m.n: of uncertain meaning but ‘hengest’ is ‘horse’: one idea is ‘horse-horse’ (tautological); (less likely) ‘beautiful-horse’, ‘peace-horse’ or ‘war-horse’. (FRID-HENG-gest / ˈfrɪd-ˌhɛŋ-gɛst) Image: Bestiary; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 59r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt

““One of the big pictures here is increased variability — the increase in differences between the good years and the bad years in agriculture," Professor Howden said. ” Excerpt From “Parched start to 2026 for southern Australia as east coast lows dry up”

Spirit animal 💕

Susie Cooper OBE ( 1902-1995), prolific English ceramic designer whose designs gained international acclaim #Womensart

Wrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026. SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday

A couple of stations in outback SA joined the rounded (but not quite) 50 °C club for the current heatwave over central/southern Australia on Thursday.

Wrap of todays #Heatwave NSW: 49.2 °C Borrona Downs 3:32pm ( Near White Cliffs ) Qld: 48.5 °C Thargomindah 2:45pm SA: 48.3 °C Marree Airport 5:17pm (50°C forecast for tomorrow!) Vic: 46.0 °C Yarrawonga 2:48pm ACT: 43.5 °C Tuggeranong 3:49 pm *Some of these are all time or Jan records

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

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