Last night I knelt by the altar in Sherborne Abbey and instead of looking down to pray, I looked up. And marvelled.

I'm sitting in the garden before going to help my friend Peggy by singing "Panis angelicus" while she struggles with a mini-organ.

Working in 1920s Berlin, Lotte Laserstein stakes a claim for a position in the art-historical canon with her 'Self-portrait with a Cat,' (1928) which shows her at her easel, hair cropped, androgynous-looking and holding a very patient feline.

Holiest of holy matte paintings.

Waiting expectantly for peony season!!! This is a commission I did a few years ago. Looking forward to painting more of these beauties!!! Oil on linen. 60 X 75cm

Good evening. Popping on to say commissions are back open in June. Best way to contact me is via my website.

I don't do that many still lives but I really love them when they work out. This was based on a photo I took in a cafe in Sri Lanka a good while ago! Oil on linen. 30 x 25cm. Private collection.

I'm watching ep9 of Detective Hole on Netflix and I am quietly TERRIFIED (It's very good)

I don't do that many still lives but I really love them when they work out. This was based on a photo I took in a cafe in Sri Lanka a good while ago! Oil on linen. 30 x 25cm. Private collection.

‘Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.’ ~ Maurice Druon, The Strangled Queen. #BookWormSat

'Sleeping Girl.' (1927) Just like Laura Knight, Dod Procter became well known in Britain in the mid-1920s after painting a series of portraits of young women using the fall of light across the figures to give a sense of volume; a style which shows her admiration for Giotto.

Caroline Hodgson, aka Indigo Moth, cyanotype artist #womensArt

Today I can't walk or sit but it was great.

The EU's wider rules, which kick in from February 18th, 2027, are simple: Users must be able to remove and replace batteries with basic tools, or specialized tools that are provided with the product for free, and compatible spare batteries must be sold for at least five years.

Night Hunter by Vitali Skvorkin

New do!!!!

Quite rough but enjoyable.

When he painted this self-portrait in 1900, Oskar Zwintscher was on an equal footing with Ferdinand Hodler and Gustav Klimt; creating powerful and provacative work which stood somewhere between between realism and Art Nouveau.

'Miss Collins.' (1924) William Beckwith McInnes won the Archibald Prize (Australia's prestigious award for portraiture) seven times. Writing in defence of his style of realism: 'in Australia we have not been bitten by Cubism or Futurism or other isms … and I am glad of it'.

'Moonlit River.' (c1917) More than any other artist, it was Whistler with his atmospheric paintings of the Thames, that had a profound influence on George Hyde Pownall - he specialized in moonlight scenes of this sort, usually with a full moon fairly central in the composition.

George Spencer-Watson's 1909 portrait is of his wife Hilda, a well-known dancer in the manner of Isadora Duncan, she was a close friend of Carl Jung, developed a form of mime, in which the Greek myths were relayed, and established a theatre on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.

Sometimes I really miss Oxford Street Topshop.

Stop and listen to this. Because it's everything and no one has put it better than Tom.

Somehow my bedroom being 26.5 degrees feels relatively pleasant after last night's 30

This photo was sent to me by a friend several years ago now and I had wanted to paint it but wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. I'm still uncertain it's finished or a work in progress but I love that summer haze! Oil on canvas board 40 x 30cm

Good morning! The Milky Way captured in Tors Cove, Newfoundland. Photographed by Gord Follett..

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

I love still works of art that feel like they are moving. I can almost see the smoke rising and curling. In fact, I totally can.

NORMALISE PARASOLS

Rape is effectively decriminalised and boys now know they can violently rape girls and get away with it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hi, not sold anything for a wee while, these pieces of original art are still available and I think they’re good and thought someone might want them. Though you know. Who knows? Thank you all for being supportive www.chloecumming.com

Exeter. If you’re local or heading to the comedy fest in early June, come to on Sat 6th June at Bookbag Book Shop in the city centre. Should be a hoot and signed books will be available.

Good evening. Popping on to say commissions are back open in June. Best way to contact me is via my website.

This show needs to be shut down right now - it shouldn't be able to survive this. And more broadly, I hope it signals the beginning of the end of shows where people are thrown together in the hope that they'll shag each other and then have dramas. It's a shit, exploitative model that needs to die

My phone is reading my mind because I was thinking 5 mins ago that I should buy some spartone iron and I then got an ad for it on Instagram; the first one when I opened the ap!!!!!!!!! HOOOOWWWWW??????? Didn't say anything, search, type it, be near it in a shop. Agh.

#StreetArt by Peeta Manuel Di Rita in #Delft #Netherland

The meals are awful. I walked out today tea time. I couldn't face what they expected us to eat so I'm not going in for meals any more.

Edward Clifford's portrait from the mid-1870s shows the Arabic scholar Ion Falconer in his University of Cambridge vest showing him as The Champion Cyclist of Great Britain: ‘unbeatable over short and fifty mile distances racing against amateur and professionals.'

The muscular tension of the boxers in George Bellows's 'Club Night,' gives it an unexpected modernity, painted as it was in 1907, six years before the famous Armory Show which brought cubism and post-impressionism to a bewildered New York public.

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Is this 3rd winter?

They are selling peonies in M & S and I am in two minds about this breach of the peony season law!!!! Here's my painting of some from the summer because why not and because I like the wait for the summer. I like the specialness of them being there for a season. But I was also a little bit tempted!!

Ray on the Red Chair. Oil on fine canvas. 60 X 75cm My painting of the actor and director Ray Panthaki I enjoyed playing with the orange/blue colour palette on this one. A couple of the paintings I did over winter had this combination of colours, quite unintentionally, and I loved the warmth of it.

Start of a very small painting that I don't know what it will be yet. More needs to be sanded off. More needs to be added to. Maybe it's a sketch for something bigger. I don't know yet

Contemplating a hot water bottle in the middle of May 🤷🏻‍♀️ and looking forward to the heat next week! 😎

These hail storms are completely bonkers

Start of a very small painting that I don't know what it will be yet. More needs to be sanded off. More needs to be added to. Maybe it's a sketch for something bigger. I don't know yet

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"The women can’t talk about this if the men won’t even venture an opinion or talk about it on the bloody radio. The abuser is one thing, but the good people around them who say nothing...they’re helping predators more than they could ever know."