Gansey studies – II

Recent work.

. shadows and haze .

The Arts Mix starts in a couple of minutes on BBC Radio Scotland.... 🎙️

It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊. www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

War Child Records presents ‘HELP(2)’ - the new collaborative album, out 6th March 2026. We made this album to help. You can help too. Pre-order now: warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2 All proceeds from this album support War Child's work with children living through conflict. <Credit to JG / Academy>

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3

Thank you for re-posting @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social Much appreciated. :-)

Norse sea. Two hours of plein air painting. Big seas, near gale force winds and frozen hands. Wouldn’t have it any other way :)

Walk. Reflections of thin birch shiver in a dark pool. These woods are pitted with small circular coal scrapings from another age. A deers velvet antlers glow in the half light as a buzzard skews its presence. The wind picks up, veering to the east. Means cold. I startle a hare, it hurdles dead…

This one's off to the Yorkshire Artist's Winter Show at the Saltaire Gallery, Nov 20 - Feb 22. Mount MacArthur, aquatint etching, 30.5x28.5 cm, edition of 15. Named for British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur, the peak lies at the head of the Heaney Glacier on the island of South Georgia.

Chris's Two-Way Poetry Podcast is a brilliant series. Poets including Fay Musselwhite, Rob Hindle, Pete Green and others illuminating their own practice and those of others. This episode (Pt 1 of 2), with Brian Lewis & Chris discussing the links between their own work, is amazing.

In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...

'Winter Meadow (Misty Copse)' Ink

. small changes 19 .

Sketching Fidra island before the rain set in.

Shoreline, Elie.

Shore, Elie, Fife.

An extra special episode of Waldy & Bendy’s Adventures in Art this week, as we take a deep dive on Holbein’s Ambassadors. Available now on all the usual platforms. (Who needs Holbein when you’ve got ChatGPT?)

. palisades .

well, my dears, here we are: the OFFICIAL launch date for ON BEING HALF-IMAGINARY! in addition to this pinned announcement, with link, i’ll be cycling through my silly promo graphics over the next few weeks/months to keep my toes in the stream. order here: www.lulu.com/shop/jay-bes...

Elie rocks Fife.

And again, @clarapirx.bsky.social Many thanks for re-posting. :-)

Tonight! Join @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social and myself, 8pm at the Bandcamp Listening Party for Irreparable Parables, Andrew’s new LP. It’s looking like it will be another cold, wet January evening, so stay at home, settle in, and come and join us! RSPV claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/merch/irrepa...

Issue 48.01 is now online, featuring: @tomstevenson.bsky.social on Xi Jinping David Runciman on Kamala Harris’s memoir Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Auden and Eliot Chal Ravens on Britney Spears Tony Wood on Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and a cover by Jon McNaught. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Fee-uld #field #painting #road #green #hedgerow #somerset

January fields, Fife.

Edge of the woods. A dreich morning gives way to a sharp cold sun in the afternoon. Walking across the stubbled field icy splinters of nippy wind smart and I bury my head deep into the collar of my coat. Along the field edge I spot a shard of blue and white pottery sticking out of the mud. Is…

'A life recovered in the moment of its telling, a city caught in the act of disappearing.' Thanks to @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for his work on the latest instalment of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I map our respective versions of Sheffield. twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...

. owl .

Noises out of place. A sound I can't match to a source. Whine and thresh. A turbine, I think, but nothing stands out in the night and there are no wind farms in this pinch point between road and rail. The sound loses strength as I pass beneath the A161 bridge. No way up the embankment. 39/

Lights in the east. And what sounds like geese. Massing and clamouring. The water park, the lakeside lodges and caravans, the bright flame of perimeter security. I turn away and stare straight ahead. What can the moon show me. Uneven ground. Patches of frost. The shadows of trees on the towpath. 38/

A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26) pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

🦢The International Swan Census is fast approaching, on the weekend of 17th-18th January. We still have vacant sites, particularly in Northern Ireland, Mull, Skye, Orkney and Uists. If you can help, please request a site on the map: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/... #UKBirding #Ornithology

Happy new year Mark ! And a great piece 😊

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Hiharin. 150 x 150 cm - acrylic on canvas. Hiharin is a word used in the ancient singing notation for the bagpipes called Canntaireachd. This phrase comes in a tune calles the 'Lament for Mary Macleod'. It is my entry for the 145th RSW exhibition held in Edinburgh . Happy Hogmanay everyone and see…

Winter song. A horse gallops past in the field next door, sets a thundering tempo, counting in a chorus of dissonant crows in the tall beech trees down the hill. A train in the distance pulls into the station, its plaintive horn ushers in a great commotion from a donkey beyond the trees. Rustlings…

. waiting for work .

. Big Heads .

Field Edge. In this half light the world feels submerged, birdsong is muffled, dampened like the earth itself, heavy from days of persistent light rain. The bark of the Scots pines blacken the sky. A group of deer stand stock still in the cut field, staring at me as I pass beneath the trees into…

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.