A joy to receive these in print! A joy to copyedit them. 💗

Lake from the train. Fisherman sharing his spot with three cormorants. The house with hundreds of individual flower pots across what could be a dug garden. A heron on an anchored sailboat.

#lifedrawing practice

Invisible, a sound almost like bells ~Anna Akhmatova

Simon says 'lie down'. I say 'how eternal'. I never knew Simon had a way with words. #1 in series of art/poetry conversation pieces between me of now and me of then.

Childlike (but maybe I am a bit...) #lifedrawing

Claude Monet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGV5... <3

Pusteblume

Say it in broken turquoise.

1/2 Approaching the end of my translation of Simone Scharbert's 'Rosa in Grau' now. Fascinating essay at the end of the book, looking at the 'blank spaces' in German psychiatry between 1945 and 1971.

Being susceptible to other people's stories: like wearing a wet raincoat with holographic faces on it.

~ ~ window magic ~ ~

In dreams

Still flouncing about like a blouson jacket

Why's everyone so young suddenly? Shit.

I love this plant. It's saying "I'm alive. Please yourself whether you like me or not. Look at my pink bits".

How middle-class is it to own a designated item for a designated task? It struck me today when my dad was filling in cracks/plastering my bedroom ceiling, using my glass lasagne dish to mix his adhesive.

Written by Rachel Hirons, my cousin. Go watch perhaps! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Colour palette delight while brushing up #minutiae

Top cloud action over the reeds just now. #OneWalkADay #MentalHealthMatters

Inspired by random line from Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane: "She knew what young women were like". #spontanousexpression

Blind contour drawing of vase of flowers

Disappearing into the scenery #lifedrawing

Dreamt I was the percussionist in a band, which suits me fine actually. Adding a certain je ne sais quoi to the main affair.

late evening light at the harbour + harbour light twisted x 4

Dreamery

At the bus-stop

Comical men outside the leisure centre in sunshine: 🌞 Man 1: "Hiya Paul. The sun always shines on the righteous, eh?" Man 2: "Oh, aye".

Common hawthorn blossom. Lovely.

Almost 100 years ago ~ in a patch of sunlight, two schoolgirls cast reflections in the water as they pick their way across a shallow stream in the misty bushland grounds of Frensham School in Mittagong, New South Wales (Sepia-toned gelatin siver photo by Harold Cazneaux, 1934)

A counter-offer on a job: a single peanut. No you're alright.

1. Got to see the painting that inspired the the title of the book I'm translating - 'Rosa in Grey'. Very beautiful. Taken from the "Sammlung Prinzhorn" (collection of 'outsider' artworks created by patients at psychiatric institutions from 1840 to the present).

Just putting this out there again... I’d love someone to commission an exhibition and/or book of these Netherne artworks, if at all possible. #ArtSky #BookSky 💙📚

A few favourite images from the Museum Ludwig in Cologne 1. Max Beckmann, Two Women (in Glass Door) 1940 2. Werner Rohde, Plum Hat, 1928 3. Mazlx Ernst, Song of the Cicadas to the Moon, 1953 4. Elfriede Stegemeyer, Portrait Malla Naas, 1932

.. at the waterside ..

1. Got to see the painting that inspired the the title of the book I'm translating - 'Rosa in Grey'. Very beautiful. Taken from the "Sammlung Prinzhorn" (collection of 'outsider' artworks created by patients at psychiatric institutions from 1840 to the present).

I must go, she cried, and with squeal of tires she was gone.

Some people just rock up in your dreams, don't they? With no qualms. Like little Tommy Tuffnuts.

I'm a simple Mensch #minutiae

Ribes sanguineum, also known as flowering currant. I do like a flowering currant. #minutiae

1. Acrobatics 2. Pisces Pastel abstracts #minutiae

Parallels #minutiae

Untitled | Joan Mitchell

Playing with colour. Perfectly allowed. #minutiae

Messy twosome #minutiae