Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour… Welcome to April, medieval style courtesy of Chaucer and the chateau de Dourdan from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry! #April

Get your cackle on comrade crones it’s planting season soon. I’ll be 71 this month, this is not AI and no I will not cut my hair, take out my piercings or cover up my tattoos. 😂🌸

Layla. Cola pen and ink on A4 handmade paper.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

Hawkeye. A4. Graphite on gesso’d board. For sale. #art #hawk #drawing #joolzdenby

Memento Mori. Slightly bigger than A5. Graphite on gesso’d canvas board. For sale.

Egon Schiele (1907)

I heard the term ‘Chocolate Christians’ yesterday to describe those racists who get all Christified during the Pagan Fertility Egg season and have a rampage about ‘EASTER’ not being stamped on everything from confectionery to tea towels whilst necking the cooking lager and shouting at their kids.

The mural of "Parrot & Frogs" is by British Artist, Curtis Hylton, located in Calais, France. #TagTuesday #AnimalArtTuesday #Murals #Art #Parrots #Frogs #StreetArt #Paintings

Edvard Munch "The Seine" 1890

A Snow Leopard caught on a trail cam.

Chaos is come again.

From my series The Women: Groomed. Watercolour on paper.

"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..." www.facebook.com/groups/96164... via The Climate Realism Community

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology @AlisonFisk

Bronze Horse, Corinth, Greece, 8th century BC

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

#caturday Uncle Viktor

I don't know how book banning is a thing. The minute a librarian or teacher is asked to remove a book they should ask for that request in writing, with names attached, and go straight to the socials with this fuckery

For the #BlueSkyArtShow, theme #Stone La Dama de Elche (the Lady of Elche) in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. #bust #monochrome #b&w #photography #Iberian #sculpture #archaeology #Spain

The King is mad

A massive 2700-year-old, 18-ton statue of an Assyrian deity that was excavated in Iraq in November 2023 Original post

I posted about the Battersea shield & the wonders of ancient British bronzework recently, so now here’s the Waterloo helmet (found in the Thames at this location). Originally, the bronze would have gleamed like gold & it was decorated with red glass studs. 🏛️BM 📷 mine #AncientBlueSky 🏺

My painting WESTERN STORM

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Nazi punks fuck off International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2026 Fight racism, fascism and anti-Semitism every day, always, without compromise #fucknazis #fightracism #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory

Here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 1800s & was probably a votive offering. Has to be one of my favourite items in the museum. I could stare at it forever following those sinuous lines & curves. 🏛️British Museum 📷 mine #FindsFriday

A bas-relief at Persepolis illustrates a Zoroastrian Nowruz symbol, where a lion and bull engage in an eternal struggle, their forces balanced at the spring equinox. The lion, representing Mithra, and the bull symbolizing the earth

Time, tide and temporary things … a monumental memento mori stands hidden in a corner at St Clement’s, Cambridge, ever watching the sands sifting downwards. #TombTuesday

There’s a rumour going round that because my Joolz Denby Meta accounts aren’t active (see image for why) I’m dead. This has upset a couple of people so pack it in whoever is spreading this. If possible can people share the info image or this whole post whichever is easier for you. Thank you.

This is my favourite coffee cup. I raise it today to all the Mothers, and to the childless Mothers, to the Mothers who mother others, especially to the Mothers who have lost their children. To the Mothers who have had their children taken by war, famine, trafficking and abuse. I salute all of you.

The Blue Hour. Graphite on A4 gesso’d board. For sale.

Velocity. Graphite on gesso’d A4 board. For sale at £150, £10 of which is Special Delivery postage.

I don't think I've seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa got access to a time machine ;) Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant Etruscan 3rd–2nd century BCE www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Wind away, Be gone, I say

Calligraphy. Cola pen and ink on A4 handmade paper. For sale.

Head from the Serpent Column at Istanbul Archaeological Museums The Serpent Column at Delphi was originally dedicated to the Sanctuary of Apollo after the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Plataea. Constantine had the Serpent Column brought to the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

#sensoryart #animals

Is anyone else sick to death of being hectored by third rate men on all sides of this insane war? These men are so worthless, dumb and narcissistic. All they care about as strut around like Temu roosters are their own raggedy egos.

My painting SUNLIT HAYBALES End of Winter Sale on Now! Use code SAVE20 for 20% off everything!

Yorks Valley, painting by John Ridgewell (1937-2004). Hebden Bridge.

Spiral Blossom. Designed and tattooed by me at my tattoo studio, Studio Bijoux, Bradford UK. For appointments please email [email protected]

Ouroboros. Cola pen and ink on A4 handmade paper. For sale. Ouroboros is an ‘ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, forming a circle that represents the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing

Little Cola Pen Goddess. Ink on A5 handmade paper. For sale. A cola pen is a handmade, folded-tin calligraphy dip pen created from aluminum drink cans which I salvage from the street as I don’t often drink tinned drinks, featuring a stick or paintbrush handle, or in this case, a tongue depressor.

Cola Pen Herne, ink on A4 handmade paper. A homemade cola pen is a simple DIY calligraphy tool crafted from an aluminum soda can, created by cutting a strip of metal, shaping it into a folded nib, and fastening it to a handle like a pencil or stick or in this case a tongue depressor.

Cola Pen Herne, ink on A4 handmade paper. A homemade cola pen is a DIY calligraphy tool crafted from an aluminum soda can, created by cutting a strip of metal, shaping it into a folded nib, & fastening it to a handle in this case a tongue depressor.

Men! What’s stopping you having ear hair like Vik’s? 😂