Thrilled to be part of this exhibition at @themerl.bsky.social which has been curated by @olliedouglas.bsky.social. Two of my paintings are part of this gallery trail. Make sure to find time for a visit over the next few months. It's going to be fantastic.

Work in progress. Oil on board. Can you guess the hill fort? This will be on show at my studio in early May for Oxfordshire Artweeks.

We've had a splendid selection of new arrivals at Rather Good Art. Firstly we have the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase, as cards and bookmarks, then some powerful arboreal illuminations from Ian Archie Beck, and a new collection of Eric Ravilious Landscapes. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product-cate...

Aveburys Kennet Avenue stones with hayricks. 1933 #StandingStoneSunday

Congratulations Alex @ajlanglands.bsky.social and team on this incredible discovery. What a way to kick off the New Year.

Last walk of 2025. Very misty morning in the Thames Valley. Delighted to get up on Wittenham Clumps and see my favourite (Paul Nash) view. @hedleythorne.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @paul-nash.bsky.social Thank you Earth Trust. What a year 2025 has been.

Have a wonderful Christmas with friends, family, pets, or even the delight of a quiet, solitary day reading books and eating lovely food by the fire. Oil on board. A winter scene from the Ridgeway near Upham Village in Wiltshire.

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

Happy Special Birthday to @hedleythorne.bsky.social - another year of wisdom for him. I wanted to thank him personally for his friendship over the years, for his generosity in collaborating with me on some very exciting projects and for being the 🌟 that he is.

I listened to All of Paul's wonderful episodes in the studio yesterday. His voice is wonderful, his words capture the spirit of a place & his last episode about Sycamore Gap made my eyes water. Responding, with thanks, with my painting The Aerial Horse.

"I want these books to feel like communities." I spoke with @stoneclub.bsky.social podcast about Upon A White Horse & my working methods, the desire to fill my writing with the voices of other people. Thanks to @matthewmshaw.bsky.social for the invitation and conversation. stoneclub.rocks/podcast

Dunquin. Oil on board. Ireland. This landscape is a small snapshot of the hills near the Blasket Centre in the West of County Kerry and shows an array of patchwork fields like a mosaic on the side of the steep hillside.

The government is looking for traditions that define communities for recognition as UK living heritage. What local traditions would you submit? (also, has someone told the Oxford Civic Society/ Oxford Preservation Trust?) May Morning would make it on the list, surely? oxfordclarion.uk/may-morning/

The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase is a spectacular view of Streatley and Goring on Thames, which are picturesque villages on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns. Oil on board.

The Springline Project. Myself and Rebecca Carrozza (the two artists) explore the 4 mile Springline Route in this lovely film by Hedley - who very kindly gave up his time to do this for us. Connecting communities, nature and creativity. cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-springli...

With one colony left in Yorkshire, the Dark Bordered Beauty is on the brink of extinction in England 🚨 After a wildfire in May 2025 destroyed part of the moth’s breeding site, it has never been more critical to expand its range to other areas.

'Otter Estuary' in East Devon on the Jurassic Coast. A winterscape on a cold morning. A lovely circular walk near Budleigh Salterton. Oil on board.

'Upstanding pillar of the community.'

Home.

The Springline Project - a unique collaboration between ecologists, artists and local communities to create this stunning 10-metre mural that we revealed to a packed audience in Cholsey on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made this happen #MendtheGap @annadillon.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

I've had a busy 2025 and this is why! My first public mural in collaboration with Becky Carrozza. On Friday, we presented all 10 panels to the public. 110 species included in this continuous landscape. So many people to thank. Especial thanks to @kitenet.bsky.social and other ecologists.

November 1918. The armies go home, leaving a devastated land behind them. Looking forward to reading Hugh Clout's "After the Ruins" on the restoration of the countryside of Northern France after four years of war 1/3

Normal Town Sounds is a mini history of music-making Didcot and District I working on for the Didcot reading.....some surprises..it turning into the Berkshire Laurel Canyon! I now got Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Stills, Cat Stevens and Clapton partying at Aston Tirrold!

The 'Son of Aston Tirrold', which is my village. I had the pleasure of meeting him back in 2014. A quiet and fascinating man and a brilliant writer.

My seasonal picture of the ruins of St James, deep in The #Chilterns. This visit was with my favourite artist @annadillon.bsky.social and this perspective originally featured in our first Wessex Airscapes exhibition. #ruins

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!

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

1/1. After the Ruins by Hugh Clout was a book I studied for my First World War exhibition back in 2018. I was interested in learning how land can recover after war. Hugh's research focused on Northern France after WW1. 92% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed & over 60% of their infrastructure.

Happy October everyone. View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series. Oil on board.

It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x

Afternoon Light The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.

This book has just caught my eye from @peteralanross.bsky.social. Congratulations Peter. It's on my list.

Pendennis Castle, built in 1924, at Didcot.

Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition

Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor here with the plaster of Single Form 1961–4 at the Morris Singer foundry, London,1963 #womensart

Harold James, CMG MBE OBE BSc FISP b.1890. Director, Rubber Research Institute KL. Swam to Pom Pong Island after “Tien Kwang” sinking. Interned at Padang, then at Bankinang Men’s Camp. Sumatra internee. His camp was liberated on 22nd August. Died: 27.1.72. My Great-Grandfather. #VJDay #VJ80Day

Beautiful orange moon above the Berkshire Downs tonight. Reminds me of this painting I did called Glimmering Moon. The title comes from a John Masefield poem. This painting looks over Lollingdon Hill - home and loved landscape of Masefield back in 1914.

Today is the last day to get out for the #BigButterflyCount! Where will you be doing yours? If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚 📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin

Fasinating thread by Philip about our cultivated landscapes since Neolithic times. I am working on a 10 metre panel of public art as part of The Springline Project. Depecting a 4 mile walk in Oxfordshire but also acting as a visual 'baseline' of 2025 for biodiversity, surveyed by scientists.

Phenomenal win by Our Lionesses. Congratulations. Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England. #Lionesses

16.3km walk up on the local Downs. Just beautiful. Connecting with these landscapes gladdens the heart and feeds the soul - it makes you appreciate them more

Sherd Jar with bird design by award-winning Native American, Hopi pottery artist Rainy Naha #WomensArt

A wonderful exhibition all about wasps, brought to us by my lovely friend @waspwoman.bsky.social and the team at UCL. Free and on until next January.

A short and lovely thread from Pat about where we are lucky enough to live.

Local residents have taken action to save one of the most important breeding sites for the Common Tern in Oxfordshire; a raft on Hinksey Lake. The birds nest in the floating raft, which had fallen into disrepair until residents fixed it, and added a second, towing it in to place by kayak.

6th June 1724 Antiquarian William Stukeley draws a view of the #Stonehenge Sarsen Horseshoe viewed from between the outer sarsen circle. See: allabouthistory.co.uk/I8Cw3m5A#JCbGOtMU #archaeology #otd

Next Friday, myself & artist Becky Carrozza, are running an outside, creative event in Cholsey as part of The Springline Project that we are part of. It's a Walk and Draw event & it's free. Details & how to book in the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-s...

Festive bird, 1970 by Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona #WomensArt