Just wrote this about landscape painting, I made myself laugh. 'An innocuous, magical, twinkling landscape is boring and emotionally flat, no life exists in this land of toxic positivity, it drowned in cerulean blue.' *Possibly my own in joke, an incredibly opinionated painter's joke.

📢 The state we're in: this is what happens when our politicians don't call out racism and, instead, fan the flames. Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Petition here www.change.org/p/save-brita.... All of them marked for demolition. It’s terrible.

Been working on this online shop- with my website maintenance hat on (it's a top hat) Beautiful work by Anji Timlin www.anjitimlin.com/shop-1

Posted a ramble about creative block. I get it quite often, so here is my non philosophy on the subject. clairecansick.com/news/cant-pa...

You all missed this by lounging in your beds. Dawn today at the Norfolk coast.

Oil doodle.

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

Tell Oil Companies: Don’t drill in the 1.5 million acres of critical wildlife wilderness habitat on the coastal plain of Alaska’s #Arctic Refuge, threatening migratory and breeding grounds for millions of birds and many other #wildlife #climate Please sign environmentamerica.org/center/take-...

Climate threat to the Broads - swathes of land will have to be given up to be used as floodplains, to protect homes in areas around Breydon Water and along the Waveney Valley from flooding.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Anyone know why if I post a link to instagram, it appears as a login page rather than the post? It's annoying me, and didn't use to happen. Ta.

Dawn.

Lest we forget.

I used to have a terrible phobia that I was being followed by a clown but now I can look back and laugh.

I’m sure half the people sang Queen to the National Anthem just then.

I'm so, so sick of hearing about immigration. It's like a foghorn 24/7. On the news. In the papers. In the shops and the pub. In the coffee shop. For God's sake just knock it off - yeah it's important, but it's not the only or even the main thing going on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What are we doing to the planet - environmental catastrophe near Rye, East Sussex Campaigners have said before that the plastic micro beads or "nurdles" should be classified as hazardous same as oil, they cause just as much damage to marine life and birds

Reminder to you, to leave leaves on the ground, where they feed the soil and create habitats. They are not untidy they are vital.

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays and altered the course of medical history. Pictured: images from one of the 1st series of x-rays ever produced (just 2 weeks after Roentgen published his discovery). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #WorldRadiographyDay

The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty, 1568 #northernrenaissance #bruegel

Diego Rivera, The Communicating Vessels, 1938 #museumarchive #diegorivera

The finest photo I took in India.

Why are old white men trying to destroy climate ambition? How will people live in 20 years? In our podcast, our MEPs @lenaats.bsky.social & @michabloss.bsky.social discuss why they work everyday to push for climate ambition & why giving up is not an option: unfiltered.transistor.fm/episodes/cli...

Wonderfully wet and wild. Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash. Rewilding is how we make that happen.

Oh this looks like such a wonderful moment of connection and contentment. And that puffy coat, yes please! La Santa y el cisne by Nieves González Óleo/lienzo 81 x 61cm 2025 #beautifulbizarre #art #artwork #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #portrait #oilpainting #art

One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3

Kilauea Volcano erupted, with lava fountains shooting as high as 1,500 feet into the air. Incredible footage 😲😎😲

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

Sowing Winter Alice Walton, porcelain, 2021 www.alicewaltonceramics.co.uk/sculpture #art #sculpture #ceramics

East Anglia, land of extremes: from Cambridge’s global tech wealth to Jaywick’s enduring struggle. The ONS’s latest deprivation data shows our region is home to both England’s richest and poorest communities. eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

Someone I don't know, just wished me a happy 89th birthday, as I posted a photo of my Mum yesterday. Tempted to tell them it is my daughter.

I've just published 12 of my favourite photos of the sea, taken in 2022. I am working backwards through the thousands to try and make some kind of archive. clairecansick.com/news/photos-...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.

🎆 After years of decline, there’s hope for arts in schools again 🎆 Our take on the Curriculum & Assessment Review, and the government's response to it 🧶 1/10

Reconstruction Valdas Kurklietis, stoneware, glazes, 2019 www.valdask.com #art #sculpture #ceramics

"my company's horrendous pollution doesn't matter because someone else bought a forest and we gave them some money to put our logo on their website" – this is what you sound like when you talk about offsets. are you listening to yourself, does this sound like how earth science works??

Here's a chat about poetry, performance and books with Yomi Sode at Apples and Snakes. An uplifting and wonderfully frank conversation, a bit of a deep dive into the mechanisms of writing and choosing the poetry life, plus we feature a powerful poem by Maya Angelou too... youtu.be/Od1pnFP_bJM?...

Norfolk artists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, curators, designers etc- Artist Salon meetings at Suffield Arms are so great, please come along. There’s a bar, tapas and conversation to be had. Come along it’s very relaxed and easy.

Nigel Farage, whose ancestors came over in small boats in the 1570s, doesn’t meet the ‘English test’ set by his parties mayoral candidate. Scenes.

The Green Party leader Zack Polanski called out the PM's eco-friendly credentials ahead of COP30.

You know your child is visiting home, when you go to charge your phone and the charger's gone.

Bacchus, liberally festooned with grapes, casually pours drink for his little panther (!), wine trellises adorn the slopes of a deceptively-slumbering Vesuvius, & serpent Agathodaemon represents ‘good spirit’ of vineyards (Wall fresco, House of the Centenary, Pompeii)

Shuji Yamada. From “Japan Village 1969-79”.

This is absolutely appalling. "The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit." Absolutely pathetic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...