'Through the Windscreen.' (1929) Gertrude Hermes was a printmaker and sculptor, who was one of the leading figures in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20thC. This work shows the night-time view of a tree-lined road lit up by the headlights of a car.

From his weekend, until October 5th The Nottingham Goose Fair at the Forest Recreation Ground, with a SEND session every Sunday. Fun for the children, great food, worth going if you are in the area! Read my review from last year here: @centralbylines.co.uk centralbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/fe...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Working with @stacylwhitman.bsky.social changed the way I approached editing and the way I started thinking about my characters when I start a book. Loved talking to her about my books on her podcast 👇❤️

Very much looking forward to the @empathylabuk.bsky.social conference in November. It's a superb line-up of speakers including @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, @teresacremin.bsky.social and authors @amdassu.bsky.social and @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social. An important day! empathylab.uk/raising-gene...

You wait years for a new episode of mine and Waldemar’s podcast, then two come along at once. Today’s episode features Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Judith Leyster, and much else.

Messed up a piece. Tore it up and threw it out. Rescued it from trash and created an odd-shaped little book of Thistles and what they symbolize. #draw #mentalhealth #recycle #ink #watercolor

Two of my favourite places are about to become one favourite place: www.hardens.com/uk-london/25...

Another #pleinair #oilpainting study of boathouses on another beautiful September day 🌞

One of the many wonderful things about woodcut prints is that their size makes them necessary to be combed over and probed. Claughton Pellew helped the revival of the medium in the early 20thC, this is 'Nnight,' from 1930.

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom. To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027: www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi... Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

My well travelled sketching kit. A pencil case just large enough for a Winsor & Newton watercolour box & various pens and pencils. The sketchbooks are A5 (148 x 210mm) & A6 (105 x 148mm) Moleskine sketchbooks. Handy for holidays & finishing sketches at home. #drawing #UrbanSketching #ArtYear

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.' Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

In my hands at last! I'm really looking forward to reading this book by @nicolawriting.bsky.social

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

Just some of the beautiful Lord Derby apples, the first crop from a tree I grafted about 10 years ago. The old tree was diseased and falling over. All the fruit is clean of disease and of course delicious. #orchards 🌱

Shout out to @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan for speaking truth to power. More moral courage in his little finger etc etc.

B+W sketch of me with my Oma

Lovely to be at @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social’s launch last night for #TheWhispersofRock. Looks like it’s going to be a great read … #geology #books

My final #urbangeology walk for this year will take place on 4 October. Reservations and more information on #LondonWalks website at www.walks.com/our-walks/th.... Hope to see you there, this is my favourite walk!

Someone on MetaFilter has had a reasonable stab of how this week, Rapture Week, will play out in the USA and elsewhere:

Our union branch will be hosting teach outs during our four weeks of strike! Details will be announced when they are ready. Here's the first: "Atoms and AI: When nanotechnology meets machine learning" Hosted by Phil Moriarty Beeston Social Wednesday, September 24th 7:30 PM Hope to see you there!

To celebrate passing the autumn equinox, four leaves fallen from the same tree, a wild aspen in a wild Irish rainforest.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

A trip along the River Fal last week.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Living up to its name. Hairy willowherb growing in the pond 🌱 #GardensHour

Autumn seems a good time to buy a book full of trees. Like this one perhaps… www.finnhopson.com/photobook-products/woodworkbook Also contains some excellent old English words like ‘nunty’, ‘shimper’ and ‘mizmaze’.

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

Felicity House, UK contemporary artist who was elected a member of The Pastel Society #WomensArt

Love it! 😎

This morning's sketch

I just remembered to add Ref**m to my list of muted words. Instant calm in the timeline.

I am certain there are many solutions that fall squarely between "ignore" and "carry every brain-fart that occurs to Reform, live and uninterrupted, from their own studio, however long it takes". ~AA

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

A Crowdfunder to save Beer Mill farm - 112 acres of rare, species rich land in Devon. There's matched funding, so your donation would be doubled. Please chip in if you can. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk

What I don't understand about the rush to AI is why people don't *want* to think. Thinking is the most pleasurable, gorgeous, exciting, sophisticated thing I do, and skipping that to get to an output and have more time to spend, I don't know, on my phone or something just seems insane to me.

Just one more day until our Seed Gathering Season campaign begins! We can't wait to share with you what we've got in store. 🌰🧡

Decent Sun article from Keir tbf

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Living room gouache on a book page #BlueSkyArtShow #angles #painting #art #peaceful

🟢 New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on how to grow the economy. "We need to destroy this really bad metaphor that the household budget is anything like a national economy."

Think you 'can't draw'? Or maybe you want to get back to drawing or hone your skills. Tansy is a great teacher and her autumn on line course might be just the thing. #alwayslearning www.tansyleemoir.co.uk/teaching/per...

A photographic and artistic cliche I know, but who doesn't love a few autumnal coastal umbellifers ?

🌱Growers, smart water use matters more than ever This webinar looks at how soil moisture probes & weather stations can transform irrigation decisions John Taylor: Pollybell Farm Peter White: Moisture Moisture Sense With our head of hort Carolyn Coxe 15/10, 3pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1639854582...

I’ve been away, but I’m back and did these today… West Penwith, Cornwall Drawings in watercolour and pencils #landscapeart #landscape #drawing #sketch #art #cornishart #abstractlandscape #womenartists #landscapepainting #watercolour #gouache #mixedmedia #art #westpenwith #cornwall

#collage #collagecollective #collageart #kunst #dutchart #art #paperart #analogcollage #collageartwork #womencollagist #collageworldwide #collagemaker @bsky.art #womensart

It’s starting to feel like the better parts of the 80s out there. Brian Eno really understands the interface between culture and politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

OPEN NOW @ Hales Gallery: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Mirage You can find out more about Wilhelmina and her art in these Lund Humphries books: www.lundhumphries.com/search?type=product&q=wilhelmina halesgallery.com/exhibitions/...