A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm doing work-in-progress shows in July. Hope you can make it. Thank you. Maidenhead - norden.farm/events/micha... Cranleigh - cranleigharts.org/event/michae... Dorking - www.dorkinghalls.co.uk/event-detail...

Pushing this one again today because I think it’s worth it. Here it is, the original of ‘Sunrise, Albert Terrace, Saltaire. Watercolour, acrylics and pen. £950 Email me at: nicktankardart.gmail.com Prints also available: nicktankard.co.uk

A detail of the painting. Each cobblestone, pavement, building, tree…all of it really, done using liquid acrylics filling the chamber of an Isograph pen. One tone of colour one way, turn the paper and apply another tone of colour over the top. It took me bloomin ages but I was very happy with it.

Kudos 👏👏👏👏

Hope we're all a bit in love with this guy x

Our parks are a great place to enjoy the warm weather, and we're all responsible for their safekeeping. Please don’t light barbeques or build small fires in our parks - they are not great for natural habitats and one small flame can cause considerable and lasting damage.

Not all heroes wear CAPEs.

Such a beautiful piece of work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby and a lovely interview too.

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

Peter Wickham, Avebury, 1981, 29cm x 40cm.

Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on David #Hockney @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

"A Prayer to Ayahuasca" my latest #watercolor #painting I am inviting guidance from elsewhere, seeking to understand a very chaotic and seemingly insane world. I hope this teacher will grace me, someday. #art #paintingASprayer #visualization Sharing #lovingkindness with you all

I love drawing outside and have latched on to the Leamington Spa plein air group. All very informal, turn up, draw for an hour or so, eat cake or drink beer, go home. I’ll put the dates/times on here should anyone wish to join us, I’m sure you’d be welcome. They’re on FB but I don’t ‘do’ Meta. Pffft

Joni Mitchell and David Hockney at the L.A. Louver gallery in Los Angeles, Photo Credit Jacob Sousa, via L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, February 13, 2019.

Rincón en Anaga #foto #photo #naturaleza #nature #bosque #forest #laurisilva #anaga #tenerife

@hcrichardson.bsky.social from this morning's 'What the Heck' YO YO MA at 7 years old youtube.com/watch?v=wiwk...

Farmers say never name your animals as you have to say goodbye to them at some point But you should name the trees you plant as you want them to say goodbye to you Meet Hengest Hengest was the 5th century chieftain who with his brother Horsa, founded the Kingdom of Kent

BBC: Amazon! Brilliant! All smiles then. Unbelievable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Original handmade illustrations I made for The Woman in Black available to purchase. Email: [email protected] for prices.

Hockney. I was concentrating very hard on spelling Lucian correctly. Anyway check out these two in 2002 and imagine the extremely well-lit sitcom they were almost in

The emergence of Cameron, who never skips neck day.

This is how communities show up for each other. Do read this by Nicola Browne from Act Now👇

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by printmaker Robin McKenzie from the limited edition of Michael Morpurgo’s Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm, his memoir launched yesterday about founding Farms for City Children with his wife Clare. Woodcut of Nethercott House in Devon. Royalties to the charity.

Corn Marigold, Corn Mint, Hemlock Water Dropwort, Feverfew British Wild Flowers, 1957 Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

Presently residing for viewing (unframed) at : Two Doors Studio : Alsager Wednesday - Saturdays 9.30am-17.00pm ... for the time being!

York Minster by my partner, Clare Caulfield. A print of the original dry point etching. £90+P&P Etsy link: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

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Remember that all of this is a choice. You could have had music and singing and dancing and fun hats.

'Abandoned House (Canal side, Cliffe Vale)' Graphite Sketch

I've been plugging away arranging book tour dates. I have 46 confirmed, which is pretty good as I don't have an agent. However, I keep encountering event organisers who assume they do not need to pay authors on a book tour... and I want to discuss that in a thread 1/🧵

The Gatehouse (from a couple of years ago) Oil and acrylic on canvas

Reminds me of this

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

There’s a starter pack of all labour MPs @labourtemplates.com They need to call this out for what it is and force their lily livered leaders to take action against reprehensible behaviour and not just simper on Tw*tter

Other work by the Ladybird artists The Puffin Picture Book: ‘Trees in Britain’ (1943) Summer on the front. Winter on the back. Lots of arboreal loveliness in-between Artist: SR Badmin

A BBC news headline to which I can answer ‘yes’ A stain on both FIFA and the US and neither come out of this debacle smelling of roses www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Now done

In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:

A horrible incident in Belfast reported on the BBC app. Was there really a purpose to the ‘believed to be…’ apart from fuelling the beliefs of some?

#AdoorableThursday Entrance door to Castle Bromwich Hall, Solihull, West Midlands.

Eliot Hodgkin, 'June', from 'The Months', 1950. That gorgeous poppy, what I suspect is rosa 'Mermaid', scented pinks and philadelphus, and the first summer fruits and veg. Many things noticeably later than today, especially as Hodgkin gardened in central London.

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘By the Mere’ Artist: CFTunnicliffe

Right. Do I watch Panorama for it to tell me either nothing at all or for regurgitating the bleedin’ obvious?

A new painting on #worldoceanday Loinnir: oil on canvas, 80 x 80cm #seascape #oilpainting #wildatlantic

Wood engraving, Cir Mhòr, Arran. Printed in three graded ink layers to enhance the aerial perspective I failed to capture in the engraving! Time-consuming but I learned a few things. 150x100 mm. #art #prints #printmaking #mountains #Scotland #landscape

i love still having the capacity for this country to surprise me. there's a village called Nempnett Thrubwell

Then consider plans to drill for oil directly through the precious chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds - drinking water source for 900,000 people: @davideddy.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/who-i...

Important. Please share. The govt is doing a review of access to face-to-face banking. For many elderly and vulnerable people in person banking is crucial and we need to protect it. The review wants your view, you can feed in here... www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/accesstoba...