Researching my book on 20thC British art is introducing me to fringe figures I’d never come across before. One of them is Brian Hatton, a friend of John Singer Sargent, who was killed in WW1. This is his self-portrait from 1907.

George Frederick Watts was the most accomplished Victorian portraitist of his age. This work (1898) depicting a Miss Lilian Mackintosh encapsulates his skill in describing serenity and deep emotion through delicate form and colouring.

Will it just rain forever now? Is that what's going to happen? Is that the plan? Rain forever and then a hosepipe ban in August?

Last year I wrote a short film, two screenplays and three sitcom scripts. Are there any production companies out there who’d like to read any of them? Let me know. Thanks!

It would appear that painting a black cat is not an easy task.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Goa I & II Watercolour and pencil on paper. A couple of the abstract pieces I made last time I was in India and finished the other week. It is interesting to try and depict an idea or a feeling rather than a literal representation of a thing.

Started watching Yellowjackets. Flipping heck it's so far very good

Goa I & II Watercolour and pencil on paper. A couple of the abstract pieces I made last time I was in India and finished the other week. It is interesting to try and depict an idea or a feeling rather than a literal representation of a thing.

Arnold Mason made a number of very fine pencil portraits of the artist Winifred Knights. This is circa 1920.

This Brazilian woman hates AI

I'm listening to Labi Siffre talking on radio 2 right now and I think I could listen to him talk all day. A philosopher!

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Good afternoon! This is a commission I completed a year or so ago. I love that my work gets to live in people's homes. If you are interested in commissioning me please get in touch (details in bio). It doesn't always have to be a straight on portrait like this. Oil on linen.

Good afternoon. Happy February! Days are getting longer and spring is on its way💃🏻. I have space for commissions from mid February so please do get in touch if you want to find out more about commissioning me. I'll link contact details below. Shobna. Oil on canvas

A close up from the finished painting.

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.

Elegance of the art nouveau elevator and staircase in Majolika House in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner in 1898

Finished my latest selfie self portrait. As yet untitled. Really happy with how it's turned out!! Oil on linen. 50 x 60cm

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.

'The Lunch Hour,' (c1925) is an example of the body of work developed by Dod Procter for which she is best known. The first of Procter's solitary figures to receive acclaim was 'The Model,' which was declared by art critic Frank Rutter to 'represent the new vision of the 20thC.'

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

David Gauld's portrait (c1920) is an exercise in aesthetic values; it is reputed to depict the actress Irene Vanburgh, Oscar Wilde's own choice for Gwendolen in the first performance of 'The Importance of Being Ernest,' which opened at St. James's Theatre, 14th February 1895.

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I really liked my little messy painting and then I went and overworked it and so so it died. However it is all a learning curve and this part of the curve pleased me until I destroyed him!!!! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️😬

'The Orange Seller.' (c1960) Reginald Brill was an English social realist and narrative painter whose work primarily depicts the lives of ordinary people and the landscapes that they inhabit.

Questions Ladybird never answered. Was Granny being subversive? Artist: AN Buchanan (1968)

I really liked my little messy painting and then I went and overworked it and so so it died. However it is all a learning curve and this part of the curve pleased me until I destroyed him!!!! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️😬

"Many of my drawings are the results of merging calligraphy with geometric planes, poetry and mathematics.”... Self-portraits by singer Patti Smith #WomensArt

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

Before you say it I know I've written the card upside down.

Arnold Mason earned his living mostly by painting portraits, much in the style of Augustus John, with whom he shared a studio. He was engaged to fellow Slade artist Winifred Knights and produced a number of portraits of her such as this one from around 1918.

Finished my latest selfie self portrait. As yet untitled. Really happy with how it's turned out!! Oil on linen. 50 x 60cm

Have to say, I would have ranked the Vadasz sauerkraut much higher... Though now I have to try the Loving Foods organic sauerkraut and the Hurly Burly original 👀 www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

Whatever the self-portrait tells you about its subject, it tells you something else too. Here's what the artist thought they were like. Here's how they wanted the world to see them. This is Peggy Fitzgerald from 1937.

The sitter for Henry Lamb's picture from 1952 is his son Valentine who went on to work as a journalist for various newspapers including the Financial Times. He was editor of the Irish Field for 33 years.

Good afternoon. I'm currently taking on new commissions. Please get in touch via my website if interested in talking more. This is a work in progress shot from a couple of years ago. Grateful for any shares!!!! Thank you!

Still a couple of places left on my Valentine portrait workshop for couples. These are some of the pictures created on the last one! Would 💕love💕 to see you there. www.instagram.com/reel/DUWPxDZ... Booking details here: bookwhen.com/meetmeatmabels

Self Portrait as a shadow with a White Peacock Feather. Oil on linen. Private collection. Looking forward to some sunlight!!! All this rain!!!! #art #painting #commissionart #portraitpainter

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde

BRIGHT COMET ALERT: It took a million years to get here, and now “this lovely comet is gracing southern skies,” reports Ian Griffin, who photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) last night from Middlemarch, New Zealand spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet, genius #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Self Portrait as a shadow with a White Peacock Feather. Oil on linen. Private collection. Looking forward to some sunlight!!! All this rain!!!! #art #painting #commissionart #portraitpainter

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is winter sports ⛷️⛷️ We are sharing 'Girl on Skis' by Peter Doig from the collection of Southampton City Art Gallery.

There are only 12 podcast guests in the uk and they have been in permanent rotation since 2015.

Oranges 🍊

I apologise profusely for all the trouble I caused to you. I am prepared for the required punishment.

I think I have pretty much finished this shadow painting. There's a lot of colours in the shadows so once it's dry I will attempt (!!!) to make a video tonshowywhat it looks like. Oil on fine canvas