Heron Cross Pottery (built in 1886 & still operating today) was requisitioned by the government during WWI/II & used for the storage of land mines Read how I linked this to the inspiration Stoke’s pottery industry was drawing from Islamic art 150 years ago: fionakonca.wordpress.com/perpetuum/#H...

Single and double exposures of another peaceful garden invader, photographed a couple of years ago. This is Aquilegia (commonly known as Columbine or Granny’s Bonnet) - at its most beautiful during these few weeks of the year (although the seed heads are equally as striking). #wildgardening

Band photoshoot and general randomness last month in the Coachmakers Arms, Hanley (named by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best pub towns in England), with Andy Gower’s Guns for Hire. #community #daydrinking #greatBritishpub #greatBritishpubs #randomness #Stoke-on-Trent

I went to put the rubbish out earlier and was distracted by the rain on my three-cornered leeks.

On a beautiful spring day 3 yrs ago, I awoke at 3am & drove 40 miles to watch the sun rise at Fiddlers Ferry The stillness was absolute, & the only sound was the most beautiful dawn chorus I’ve ever heard The cooling towers have now gone #InternationalDawnChorusDay #InternationalDawnChorusDay2026

The late, great, maverick radio presenter James Whale once described Andy Gower as “a musical version of Lowry” His latest album, Six Towns Boy (also available on t’other streaming platforms & vinyl), is the summer soundtrack of the century, I reckon. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #newmusic

On Staffordshire Day 2026 - the 10th year of celebrations dedicated to the Creative County - landscapes, rich in Celtic history, at the beginning of Stoke-on-Trent’s section of the Roman road ‘Rykeneld Street’, “glitched” with a hand drawn and painted Minton & Hollins tiled floor pattern.

This is why stuff doesn’t get released on cassette anymore. Do your bit for humanity. Stream (and/or buy) the album. Keep him off OnlyFans. No ends were met during the filming of this video. (Apparently) #newmusic #newmusicfriday www.facebook.com/share/r/1EJV...

Daughter and her boyfriend sent me this today from Vietnam, during the Hai Van Pass MOTORBIKE tour they PROMISED ME THEY WOULDN’T DO Twentysomethings scare the living shit out of me (Btw their feet aren’t really that big - apparently the photographer had some weird camera setting shit going on)

Views from 20 Fenchurch St, London, superimposed - over each other, and over one of my painted seascapes. Available as prints (max A3 size) along with the rest of my stuff. More at fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/p... #Abstractphotography #Landscapephotography #London #RiverThames #TheShard

One of my favourite places - and now, one of my favourite artists peterjameshoughton.co.uk #GleadlessValley, #Sheffield

Band photography & album launch gig poster for #AndyGower’s Guns for Hire Six Towns Boy will be released this Friday (May 1st) on all major streaming platforms, & launched May 16th at The Sugarmill. Ticket link: www.gigantic.com/andy-gower-t... #bandphotography #gigposter #newmusic #Stoke-on-Trent

‘The Mother Road’ Fusions of my Durotrigian pattern (see previous post) with photos taken on and near Ackling Dyke Roman road in Dorset (including a self portrait at my mum’s final resting place) More soon @ fionakonca.wordpress.com/perpetuum/ #Celticart #Celtichistory #Romanhistory #Dorset

Hand drawn & painted, a motif from the back of a Late Iron Age mirror (found among the grave goods of a Durotrigian burial) “cartwheels” northeast & southwest along the route of Roman road Ackling Dyke. More soon @ fionakonca.wordpress.com/perpetuum/ #Celticart #Celtichistory #Romanhistory #Dorset

Reposting, on the 10th anniversary of Prince’s passing. He was one of the first loves of my life. #Prince #Princecover #Princecovers #Princepianocover #Princepianocovers #pianocover #pianocovers

A City of Kilns overlooked for energy support! petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

A few from the opening of Kidsgrove’s ‘Blue Collar Record Shop’ (on Facebook & Instagram) on #RecordStoreDay last year. See the rest at: fionakonca.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/r... #communityphotography #cratediggers #cratedigging #Stoke-on-Trent #vinyl #vinylcollecting #vinylcollectors

Andy Gower’s latest album (and my first sleeve photography & design!) is now available at Blue Collar Record Shop, Sid’s Records and the Coachmakers Arms! (If eating your dinner off it, clean with isopropyl alcohol before playing) #newmusic #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2026 #Stoke-on-Trent

For #WorldArtDay, a link to some of my abstract and surreal visual art and poetry/writing. fionakonca.wordpress.com/virtuality/

Memories of childhood visits to my Granddad’s home in Leigh (Greater Manchester), and the hypnotic view of Bickershaw Colliery’s pit head winding wheels. fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/t... #coalmining #industrialheritage

Am I up to the job? That remains to be seen. But the first (and only) time I held and fired a shotgun, I hit 3 out of 4 clay pigeons.

My favourite band are the best they’ve ever been. Unfortunately, my love for them cannot conquer my hatred of the online ticket buying process & those behind it. I missed the latest UK tour for that very reason (& donated to the Music Venue Trust instead). This whole situation sucks. #NineInchNails

Sat 16th May The Sugarmill, Stoke Andy Gower’s Guns for Hire - album launch Be there or be bounty hunted Tickets: www.thesugarmill.co.uk/andy-gowers-... 📷: me #albumrelease #gig #gigs #livemusic #newalbum #newmusic #Stoke-on-Trent

Andy Gower and his band ‘Guns for Hire’ - yesterday in the Coachmakers, Hanley. I’d told Andy this week that I wasn’t going to make music videos anymore. These guys had other ideas though, and set about plying me with Guinness and appreciation. Apparently, I am now also a gun for hire. 📷: me

Four young people overheard in Hanley yesterday: “So this is the city centre?” “What - it’s a CITY??” “Yeah! Haven’t you heard of Stoke City?” Welcome to Stoke-on-Trent. Here, Sarah Chevolleau attempts to orientate the disorientated: thelead.uk/six-towns-on...

“With those words, the Epstein crisis that had plagued the president was once again front and centre thanks to his wife.” Was that her intention? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MelaniaTrump

In terms of public speaking, there is more power in these six minutes than Donald Trump has managed to wield in five years of presidency. www.youtube.com/live/vyn-_Ts... #MelaniaTrump

“Trump was referenced numerous times throughout the Epstein files, and his former friendship with the disgraced financier and accused child sex trafficker is public record.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Wireless Festival cancellation costing Live Nation £30m in potential earnings? Good. Greedy, robbing twats. #WirelessFestival #LiveNation #KanyeWest

If you buy me 4 pints of Guinness, I WILL sing Just a Gigolo on the karaoke.

Reni is the coolest as fuck Stone Rose.

“Early this year, the news broke that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Maga Inc, Donald Trump’s biggest Super Pac. This made him Trump’s largest donor of the last cycle” Quit ChatGPT. In fact, quit generative AI altogether. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #boycottAI #QuitGPT

Data centres - particularly those supporting AI - are rapidly growing in number and size, in the UK and globally, and consuming an unsustainable amount of energy and water. Thankfully, AI-boycotting humans are also rapidly increasing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #boycottAI #QuitGPT

“Even when these [humanoid robotic] units are manufactured at scale, the per-unit cost will still outstrip that of simply hiring human workers, who can be more versatile and responsible.” finance.yahoo.com/news/replaci... #ai #humanoid #robotics #robots

Shanghai-based Agibot has shipped 5,000 humanoid robots in the last three months. However, according to market research firm Gartner Inc., “the technology remains immature and far from meeting expectations for versatility and cost-effectiveness”. www.therobotreport.com/gartner-pred...

Reminds me a little of @alanjslater.bsky.social’s paintings.

Immigrants were never the ones coming for your jobs — it’s the billionaires and their machines.

This is fantastic. (An Irish Twin Peaks?) And Supt. O’Kelly is a comic genius. “The fuck are these? (Cowboy boots.) You the sheriff now? Riding into town to make a giant tit-sandwich out of everything?” www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #crimedrama #DublinMurders #Irishdoitbetter

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky And I'll become the sea And the sea will come to kiss me For I am going Home . . . A series of seismically shifting seascapes inspired by the Nine Inch Nails song ‘La Mer’ fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/l... #abstractart #horizons #painting #thesea

NASA’s crewed Moon mission will launch as early as tomorrow. OUR crewed Moon mission launched 9 months ago: youtu.be/SzexHabc0H4?... www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... #ArtemisII #Moonmission #NASA

Blinked and missed #WorldPianoDay Here’s my (unpolished, as usual) rendition of Prince’s ‘Father’s Song’, from the film Purple Rain (search ‘Soul Purple Rain Movie’ on YouTube for the clip - in which Prince hears his father playing it on the piano for the first time). youtube.com/shorts/q-rD1...

Fusions of my Durotrigian pattern (see previous post) with photos taken on and near Ackling Dyke Roman road in Dorset (including a self portrait at my mum’s final resting place) More soon @ fionakonca.wordpress.com/perpetuum/ #Celtic #Roman #art #history #Dorset

Hand drawn; a motif from the back of a Late Iron Age mirror - found amongst the grave goods of a Durotrigian burial - “cartwheels” northeast and southwest along the route of Roman road Ackling Dyke. More soon @ fionakonca.wordpress.com/perpetuum/ #Celtic #Roman #art #history #Dorset

More @cerysmatthews.bsky.social & @huwstephensdj.bsky.social co-presenting please! A thoroughly enjoyable listen. #6Music #6MusicFestival #6MusicFestival2026

A dream of mine, since studying photography at college 40 years ago, has been to see my work, and name, on a vinyl album sleeve. My late brother Robert Heaton (pictured with me back then) tried in vain to make it happen when he was with New Model Army. Today, my dream came true. Watch this space.

The Full Moon, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 24/6/12 Probably the best alternative/indie rock nightclub in North Staffordshire, it closed down in 2018 and has since been converted into flats. 📷: Canon PowerShot G12 (more further below) #clubbing #communityphotography #nightlife #Stoke-on-Trent

Skye, 2 years ago today. During my drive around the isle, my 4x4’s rear differential entered its death throes; & I had to drive all the way back to Stoke-on-Trent at 40mph. An epic, 13 hour, traffic queue-causing end to my Caledonian odyssey. #landscapephotography #roadtrip #Scotland #solotravel

Aliens vs. President? I think it could work.

Why? Absolutely no idea. I’m just a pretty naked blue pylon love hate machine. Happy Birthday #HeadLikeAHole @nin.com #NIN #NineInchNails

A review of ‘Human Identity in the Urban Environment’: mdhughes.tech/2020/01/28/o... The anthology - published in 1973 - includes an essay by Marshall McLuhan, in which he predicts the internet and its societal impacts. The cover was illustrated by Ralph Steadman. #society #technology