I'm delighted to say that this painting has sold and will be heading to Germany for Christmas. Thank you so much to the buyer - the support means everything.

Plum tree .

Lighthouse. Acrylic and charcoal on panel - 50 x 50 cm. It's been a year.

Last week of Take 6, closes next Sunday 30 November. Open 12-4 today. Alison Dunlop Simon Laurie Neil Macdonald Naoko Shibuya Peter Thomson Graeme Wilcox Great collection of top class work on show... here are 4 from Naoko Shibuya, Graeme Wilcox, Simon Laurie & Peter Thomson.

I'm doing an in person workshop, 'Experimental Ekphrasis: audio guide as poetry', as part of the upcoming exhibition (feat. me and 7 other amazing artists) Another Way of Seeing. Booking essential. Limited places so only book if your'e gonna come: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...

Grid, Layered Print on Wove Paper

Terry Frost(1915-2093) ‘Green Black, White Movement’ oil on canvas 1951.

Line Drawing/Grid/Text(ile). Sketch, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone, cutting shingle. 'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing' thefooting.wordpress.com

Pittsburgh snowstorm gouache #UrbanGaze #painting #art #urban

. series of sculptures from 2016 .

Take 6 Open Tues-Sat 11-4 & 12-4 Sun. Alison Dunlop Simon Laurie Neil Macdonald Naoko Shibuya Peter Thomson Graeme Wilcox Another great painting by Peter Thomson. Love the ping of the blue shoes! Sean & Soren at Catacol Oil on Panel 43x52cm #peterthomsonart #scottishart #scottishartist #light

"Lucian Freud In Motion." Pastel and acrylic canvas. #art #artsky #painting #painter #traditionalart #lucianfreud Born in 1922, Freud was a British painter and the grandson of Sigmund Freud revered for his exquisitely detailed portraits.

Another Scottish indie bookshop page on the blog, this time @argonautbooks.bsky.social at the bottom of Leith Walk, one I'm looking forward to visiting #BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop #IndependentBookshop 📚💙

Top-tier promotional materials for the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, happening at Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November. All welcome, admission free. Hope to see some of you there.

Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK. Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk

Get your lovely Christmas cards here! Don’t send boring cards this Christmas. Shop independent and support small creative business. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted) thefooting.wordpress.com

Something a little different. 🎨

New episode of the podcast just out. We discuss: Britain's greatest forger; why London gets all the art; and what's going on in all those mad Mary Magdalene paintings. open.spotify.com/episode/2iP0...

Hi, looking for some illustration work at the moment, send me a message if you'd like some art for your project. You can also email me at [email protected] Thanks!

and if your going to Scotland at any time there is a list of 117 Independent Bookshops (it does need updated and checked) to visit or buy from their website #BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop 📚💙 #ChooseBookshops #BuySmallBuyLocal bigbeardedbookseller.uk/bookshops-sc...

Take 6 Open 11-4 today. Alison Dunlop Simon Laurie Neil Macdonald Naoko Shibuya Peter Thomson Graeme Wilcox Another perfectly composed piece by Neil Macdonald that leads your eye through the surreal streets of Stromness. Night Walk, Stromness Oil 33x50cm #stromness #orkney #neilmacdonaldart

A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

In sleep, in dream song, the daylight ghosts are laid and trouble us no more. In silence nightlong a life’s debts are paid at the open door. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ian Beesley Esholt Sewage Works 1976 - 78 Café Royal Books www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/p/ian-b...

Furred for winter, the broom seeds have long split. Walking this path in hot August I'd have heard the popping of pods, small rain of seeds.

Full sail- oil and charcoal on panel.

Starlight, Sea. Oil and charcoal on panel - 20 x 25 cm.

Recent wandering...

Very pleased to report that my wood engraving "Oak" has been selected for the 88th annual exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. The exhibition will tour the UK in 2026, starting at the Bankside Gallery, London in February.

Metamorphic rocks of Faraid Head, Sutherland, NW Scotland. Moine Thrust Zone Mylonites Complex. A visual invitation to dive below the thin veneer of sand and follow the geology into the crust. Photo, watercolour and a monochrome photo - an engraving?

Tayvallich. November rain, a freckling, softens footfall, trampling acorns into the deep leaf forest floor. Silver lichen glows in the indigo light. The wind picks up , drawings take flight. Blooming yellow flag iris in the bog by the shore.

. Leftovers small parts .

"Portrait Of Saul Leiter." Acrylic and pastel. #art #artsky #painting #painter #blueskyart #photography Born in 1923, Leiter was an American photographer and painter best known for his impressionistic, painterly street photography. I love his work.

Got the large canvas for part 2 of the diptych prepared last night and hope to start later… meanwhile this piece of cardboard pulls me in

It's a local stopping service, Chapeltown, Elsecar, Wombwell and the rest, eleven stations from end to end. The carriage is empty when I board and only half-full when I leave. I unfold and refold the maps, the Explorers and the Landrangers, repack the rucksack, and drift in and out of sleep. 3/

The walking begins at 4.42am, three miles from Hillsborough to Sheffield station, out of the house into a stop-start sprint and the rucksack as light as I can make it. Langsett Road, Infirmary Road, West Bar. A walk before the walk. 5.18am when I reach the platform. 5.28am when the train departs. 2/

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space, swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel slips off, begins to make her way downstream. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

Now *there* is a ramble…! 👏👏👏

My last post of the year on the swifts we share a house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

I’m offering free U.K. postage for giclée prints this week - just enter code FREESHIPPING at checkout. Spread the word if you can, could really do with some sales. claireleach.com/shop

Don't we owe them more than terror? Are we comfortable with the idea that we continue gilding and embellishing and redecorating the present by looting the future. Tim Winton.

Since I'm quoting Tim Winton talking about the climate crisis in my last post((the quote comes from a talk at Canberra Writers Festival about his novel 'Juice') a shout out for the book A cli-fi thriller, it asks a fundamental & urgent question, which is, 'What do we owe to future generations?'

Shipwrecked comes home as we go back to the Future with @futureyard.org .. mailchi.mp/58a28d97c58e...