To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour William Blake

It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak Mary Oliver

Japanese artist Naomi Okubo, Camouflage #3, 2017 #womensart

Tomorrow! And thank goodness it will be a little cooler As you can see I keep a small sheep on my head, not good in this weather 😬

Yesterday's word from my emergency prompts list started as 'voice' but travelled to 'surrender' #wordpromptart

Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

My long suffering family have always had to cope with my tendency to file all paperwork I need to keep by shoving it into shoe boxes labelled 'important pieces of paper-various' But since my recent diagnosis I am trying to be a bit more organised...

Yesterday morning a speckled wood, today a ringlet I do love a spotty butterfly 💚

SWIFTS! Sound ON! Grey skies this morning but there was a spring in our step sharing the space with these swifts. Usually its so hard to film them but these were doing circuits! [AD= cluster of swifts flying low between houses, above telegraph wires. screaming as they go.]

Ameera hunting shadows The chairs, mine, her own. She can entertain herself for hours and her ability to make us giggle makes up (mostly) for her rather random toilet habits...😬😬😂

Just packing up a signed copy of my book to send out tomorrow I can send you one too! Link to buy below Or if you are local you can come along and meet me and buy a signed copy at the wonderful Ironbridge bookshop on 27th of June (see flyer below) katherinesoutarillustration.com/buy-my-book-...

It's all out there tiny jungles inside bigger jungles, whales swimming across the path, life and death drama as a tiny spider lurks within a wild rose, waiting also if you sit quietly and hold a twig for long enough you can feel it's texture in every nerve in your body, which is odd but entrancing

Deborah Sandidge Photography "A Great Blue Heron reaches toward the sky in a display that’s part of an ancient mesmerizing ritual to attract a mate. The deep bow and skyward stretch is a beautiful hypnotic gesture that I look forward to filming each year."

Sharing again in case anyone missed it, we have worked hard to try and make this happen and we would love it if you could help or even just share xx Thank you 😘 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/9lxXKQQ...

Berthe Morisot' Julie with Pasie in the Garden at Bougival, 1881 French Impressionist painter #WomensArt

j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 📍Anna Maria Island, FL Sunset Gulf of Mexico

David Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)

Today's 'sorry I'm late, I saw a cat' moment Just look at this chonky boi 😍

It was such a pleasure to find the world at one on Radio 4 so full of memories of and tributes to David Hockney today. A reminder if we needed one that art is life. He lived it x

Art is what makes everything better. Making art, teaching art, looking at art, thinking about art Making some more art (I love my class, a brilliant morning with lovely, warm, funny, generous people. I should pay them really 😉😘)

🖼️ Kent Ambler

Bare throated bellbird South American bird famous for its metallic bell sound typically found in tropical subtropical forests Typically live 12 years in the wild The bird is 27 cm long

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Nesting. This great egret is taking branches all the way to the top of the tree for its nest. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Today has been a bit of a rough one, the rain didn't help. But I heard this poem on the radio just when I needed it and it reminded me that one of the words people sent me was 'perch' “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul Emily Dickinson Art self

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Illustration by artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) from her 'Moomins' book series #womensart

It’s amazing how cool the frying pan suddenly feels when you have scrambled into it out of the fire…

One of my students pulling her first Chine Collé print recently. Art is also about the Joy of materials and processes for me and that joy can be shared by everyone My oldest student is 91 xxx

"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art

Kevin Kia The Two Doors

Friedrich Meckseper | Rain, ca. 1973, etching with aquatint

Today’s words are Skies and ship Tomorrow could be a tough day so I may see you on Wednesday x

The Bushtit bird is a small, grey bird known for building a large, fluffy, hanging nests These nests are woven using spider webs and plant materials and are known for being well insulated with feathers, fur, and downy plant matter. This Bushtit bird is mainly in southwest Texas through Mexico

I am on medication that makes me tired in the day and unable to sleep at night, I am developing some strategies for this and have (for now at least) become an early riser for the first time in my life There is something beautiful about the stillness of the early morning though, crows are calling

Space is uninhabitable. The Moon is uninhabitable. Mars is uninhabitable. Where do people think we’re going when Earth’s ecosystems collapse? Why do people think they’ll be evacuated even if there is somewhere to go? Why do rich people think wealth matters on a dead planet? W.T.F? 🌏

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who has had a long career involving performance, installations, printmaking, sculpture and painting #WomensArt

We hope to build a gallery/workshop in my other home this year, have a look. Xxx A space to create, a space to share. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-space-to...

Don’t they just! #BookSky

Today's word prompt is 'Vespertine' A truly gorgeous word x

#StandingStoneSunday Avebury

English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart

Quilt art by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono #WomensArt

Absolutely, what a feeling... #BookSky

The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten And so forth But I'm taking the day off Quiet as a feather I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance Stillness One of the doors into the temple Mary Oliver Art me

How I make my illustrations, how I will always make them because the process is a part of the story for me. The quiet caress of brush on paper, the feel, the smell, the textures of my materials, they are as much a part of my life as eating and sleeping x Working last week on The Ruby tree

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

I hate painting epoccipitals almost as much as I hate painting teeth. In fact, no, more than teeth. I can at least choose to hide the latter. 😅