Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt

Solstice Peace, Hope, Light... ✌️✨🫶

Happy Winter Solstice folks❄️ Here’s to lighter times✨ #Yuletide

Misty And Murky. 6°C with hill fog. Sheep in the valley

The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice. I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through. Virginia Woolf

'The Yule King' by Michael Kerbow

Good Day! Night Owl on a Winter Eve Flight by Walter King Stone c.1900-1939

"In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago." (Christina Rossetti) 🎨 Heinrich Gogarten #bookwormsat #wintersky

Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter

Victoria Crowe, Low Winter Sun, Links House Window, 2023 Scottish painter #WomensArt

‘The Queen‘s Gambit‘ on Netflix is phenomenal. That final scene with Borgov. Wow. ❤️

New podcast. An investigation of the emotion of shame as it applies over the festive period open.spotify.com/episode/0rW5...

'Christmas Lights, Piccadilly Circus, Late December Afternoon' by Peter Brown peterbrownneac.com

#1WordFor1Music #MusicChallenge 17- Enter U2 🎶 One Love is a temple, love the higher law You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl ... youtu.be/ftjEcrrf7r0?...

Bono, Tokyo, by Anton Corbijn, 1993.

'St James’s Towards The Circus' by Nick Grove www.nickgrove-artworks.co.uk

In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees... ~ Mary Oliver, from ‘White-Eyes’ (2002) #Photography via Science & Nonduality.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. #JaneAusten #Persuasion #happybirthdayjane

U2 - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) youtu.be/mmZBC92pgrE?...

Christmas in this part of London feels like it’s straight out of a movie (minus the snow). #Photography #StreetPhotography #London #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #Christmas

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born 250 years ago today on 16th December 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire. In celebration, I’d love to hear which is your favourite book, or your favourite quote ❤️ #JaneAusten

"The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music." #MaryOliver #TheManWhoHasManyAnswers #MaryMonday

'We got ready quickly and went down into the neon fairyland of Dublin. I loved it more than I had ever loved a summer's day in a hayfield. Lights, faces, traffic, the enormous vitality of people hurrying to somewhere.' The Country Girls Edna O'Brien was born on this day in 1930.

Today marks 350 years since the death of Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer is renowned for his calm, intimate interior scenes of everyday life. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Johannes-Vermeer--5eb6c8bfe50817180452a6fcfb20510d

#OnThisDay 15 December 1930 - #EdnaOBrien, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer, was born in Co. Clare. Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation".

Jakub Schikaneder.

“I don't know the name of this bird, I only imagine his glittering beak tucked in a white wing while the clouds—   which he has summoned from the north— which he has taught to be mild, and silent—   thicken, and begin to fall into the world below”   (Mary Oliver)   🎨 C.L. Turnbull   #OwlishMonday

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. - Edna O'Brien, Country girl born on this day, 1930 #BookSky #EdnaO'Brien

Tears in the rain 📷Ma®k Schreiner #flickr flic.kr/p/2rLedWB

So, after a lot of effing and blinding, endless cups of tea and a little bit of crying in the corner, here is my latest linocut, Hinterlight. Hope you like it! #Linocut #Printmaking #ContemporaryArt #blockprint

Artus Scheiner Little Stars of Gold, 1921

Take a few minutes of peace: Sinéad O’Connor (born December 8, 1966) sings Silent Night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpX...

🦍 Pendant près de 20 ans, Dian Fossey a étudié en immersion totale le comportement des gorilles au Rwanda. Ce soir / déjà en ligne, @artefr.bsky.social revient sur sa vie mouvementée et son engagement sans faille.

'The crow's song' by Catherine Hyde, UK illustrator and artist based in Cornwall #WomensArt

Maja Lindberg (Swedish Illustrator, born 1972) "Lucia", 2020. Acrylic, Mixed Media, 29.7 × 42 cm. Illustration. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Moon's Daughter by Seb McKinnon

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by. Innocent Traitor / Alison Weir #BookWormSat

The New Yorker December 10, 1955 cover artist: Alain

Do not fear the night. Face it boldly. You and your untamed Muppet hair, rumpled sweaters, and intoxicating aroma of dusty bookstores belong to the darkness.

'Winter in Richmond Park' (2008) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk

‘The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It’s nice…to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their worst.’ ~ Moominvalley in Nov, Tove Jansson. 🖼️ Tove Jansson

Illustration from 'The Snow Leopard', 2007 by author and illustrator Jackie Morris, who lives and works in a small cottage in Wales #WomensArt #ArtAdvent 🎄

Fire Hound' by stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt

Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards; for there you have been, there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci

'Stay Home: BT Tower in the Snow' by Edward Luper edwardluperart.com

Remembering Shuhada Sadaqat aka Sinead O'Connor on her birthday. Here in 1992 by photographer Jane Bown #WomensArt

Hard to believe—45 years ago today since John Lennon was shot and killed outside The Dakota in New York City.

‘The grey wolf knows me; by one ear I lead along the woodland deer; The hares run by me growing bold. They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.’ ~ Yeats, The Madness Of King Goll. 🖼️ Hare in Snowy scene, Karl Wagner.

The nights may be longer, but you can’t beat a winter sunset.

“My ultimate goal is to try to make the ordinary look extraordinary". Martin Parr RIP Common Sense 53 [Teacup, Sand Bay], 1999 Image