Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

Penny Evans, ceramic artist in Australia who creates works that embody her Indigenous Kamilaroi/Gomeroi cultural heritage #WomensArt

We've been finding lots of these washed up recently. We understand they are pall rings, used in the chemical, petrochemical and oil refining industries. Anyone here familiar with them? We understand they're used in waste water treatment too.

The sitter for Henry Lamb's picture from 1952 is his son Valentine who went on to work as a journalist for various newspapers including the Financial Times. He was editor of the Irish Field for 33 years.

We're hiring Field Ornithologists and Surveyors! Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📝 Full and part time opportunities. 📆 Closing date: Tuesday 17 February. #Ornithology

📍 River Plym Recent rain has brought higher flows to the River Plym. From Dartmoor to Plymouth, this river has long influenced the landscape, local history and the city that bears its name. #Dartmoor #Plymouth #DevonLife #ExploreDevon #VisitDevon #SouthWestEngland

People of Cornwall, #3: what was the story behind pioneering underground photographer J C Burrow’s amazing images of Cornish miners? Read on… the-cornish-historian.com/2022/08/28/t... #Kernow #Cornwall #Cornish #Kernow/Cornwall

According to the rainfall radar map, there is not a single daylight hour in the next 3 days when it will not be raining. 😭

Yesterday's lenticular action for your delectation. If this kind of thing delights you...

We go live to @sundance.bikesky.social childhood in Paris

For no reason, this quote, except it makes everything a bit better every now and then. From Alan Moore, crazed genius and doomy pessimistic old bastard, yet also writer of this, from Watchmen:

'Pilot Boat, Moelfre, Anglesey.' (c1970) Writing about why he started to paint, Kyffin Williams said it was record the land, the people and natural history. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good.'

'We wait, and wait,' was painted by Derek Jarman around 1960 when he was studying at King's College London. Three years later he was at the Slade, the collaborative nature of designing was always much more congenial to him than the solitary pursuits of the painter.

Please stop feeding the racists. Please stop giving oxygen to that tweet. And while we’re at it, please stop feeding the gaslighting that “it doesn’t come from a racist place.” We know it does.

Marina Hyde: ‘There will always be something more important than grappling the roots of #misogyny – money, power, access, information, a political project, “how the world works”, whether you can use #Mandelson to bring down Keir #Starmer, “philanthropy”, realpolitik … .’ 1/

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This is pretty cool. An opportunity to start an agroecological market garden in Bucks/Oxon with up to three acres, rent covered, basic income, access to shared tools and training and ongoing support for 3 years abunda.farm/grow-more-gr... #agroecology

A group of very tough cattle I have been warned many times about, who are about to mug me for my lunch money on the way back from the combined cattle and human school we all attend.

Rosalind Cuthbert's portrait is of the artist Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art, London (detail of full-length). Collins is known for his mystical, and Neo-Romantic paintings, including his 'Fool' series. He taught at CSA for many years starting in 1951.

This morning’s near metallic amaryllis bud 😍 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

It was not brilliance of colour that made Albert Marquet a Fauve painter, but his use of large, flattened areas of muted tones. In his early years, he could not afford to buy many pigments, so this restraint was both a choice and a necessity. This later work is from 1938.

“Did I hear you slagging me off behind the hedge with Debbie earlier? If you’re gonna say something about me say it to my fucking face.”

A guide to venerable monks called Maslow's Hierarchy of Bedes.

This is a wonderful series of images.... and a thought-provoking and insightful read.

Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #womensart

In a marker of how utterly NOW we are, Ben and I have just started watching the old 70s BBC Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy series. My god those London streets! And the clothes. And the cigarettes.

Mossy wall and Sampford Spiney church last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #moss #nature #landscape

“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

The Teign Gorge. Cloud moving through the valley from the west, everything shrouded, wrapped and half hidden. #photography #landscape #Dartmoor

There are so many great opportunities to get stuck into some winter pruning with us this month. Whether you’re just starting out, or want to volunteer your existing skills, see if there's any events happening near you: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-orchar... #CommunityOrchards #Pruning

Cornwall Council has an online translation service for the Cornish language. They have been translating some nursery rhymes for me to sing to Rowan, and it's made my day. I realise no one asked, but here's 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' in Kernewek:

People in cities think nothing dramatic ever happens in villages but that’s not true. In our village the summer before last the cattle pushed over a fence and escaped from John and Rita’s field and lots of people still talk about it to this day and some of those people don’t even live in the village

Oh, and happy anniversary to Planet Earth. Released 45 years ago today. 😱

One of the local bus stops, at dawn a few days ago. (I was facing away from the road when taking this picture; the bus is not a submarine)

Yew tree and Sampford Spiney church last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Staircase - Truro Cathedral.

Welcome to February. January saw us have 4 named storms within 5 weeks in south west England. Not cold so much as extremely wet. And now everything is dank. Really dank. The river Dart on such a morning. #photography #landscape #Dartmoor

Today is national hedgehog day apparently… here are the two rapidly growing young ones I’ve been feeding over winter. Filmed last night, #nationalhedgehogday #hedgehogs

Happy for Gen Z that they get their own Mandelson scandal.

That'll be MPs from Newcastle Central/West, Mid-Norfolk, NW Hants, Gravesham, Henley & Thame, Cambridge, MK, Stoke-on-Trent South, South Derbyshire, Erewash and Newton Abbot. If you're in one of those areas and would be willing to write to your MP today that would be amazing.

We have another repair cafe coming up on 20th Feb. Bring us your broken but loved electronics, clothes, shoes, lamps, ect.. and we will help you repair them share.google/g02JWYX8iPN7...

Another load of lenticular nonsense for you today.

William Orpen was the quintessential Edwardian painter. His portraits are coloured by the glamour of the age, his painting of 'Mrs Evelyn St George,' (1906/1914) one of his most dramatic formal arrangements.

Pictures taken this week, at Sampford Spiney. (The door is the church), #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #nature

@imcmillan.bsky.social explores Rainer Maria #Rilke's life advice, and is joined by Paul Farley, Griot Gabriel, Kate Fox and Ulrich Baer 17.10 today then at #BBCSounds. Only the BBC could and would do this.

Saint Bride by John Duncan 1913.

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

New one following only women

“When we see the hazel catkins turn yellow, we know that spring is not far off” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe