#FlowersOnFriday Evelyn De Morgan, Compositional study for 'The Valley of Shadows' (detail) (1899)

#TilesOnTuesday Reading about the accelerating decline in wild bird species in the UK made us think of this fellow. Multi-Lustre Dodo Tile by William De Morgan (1898) The dodo is an extinct flightless bird from Mauritius and was popularised by Lewis Carol who featured it in 'Alice in Wonderland'.

#FlowersOnFriday End of the Butterfly Chase (detail) (1911), Edward Atkinson Hornel @Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery

If you are in Brittany this autumn why not drop into Pont-Aven Museum to see the remarkable Witches exhibition youtu.be/95tLVJogO0E?...

We're delighted to lend some of William De Morgan's ceramics to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery for the wonderful exhibition 'The Nature of Gothic' (on until mid-December) www.demorgan.org.uk/exhibitions/... Including some Ferocious Creatures ...

#TilesOnTuesday A ceramic shrug? #Meh #Whatevs Ruby Lustre Cherub tile panel (detail), William De Morgan

#TilesOnTuesday Looking at the forecast for Tuesday in the UK "lovely weather for ducks" just about sums it up. So here we are! William De Morgan, Fantastic Ducks tile (1907) Lustre-Glazed Earthenware

#FlowersOnFriday Harald Sohlberg, Flower Meadow in the North (detail)(1905) @Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

#FlowersOnFriday Evelyn De Morgan, Night and Sleep (detail) (1878) @De Morgan Collection

Dogs in paintings Good dog #9 LS Lowry, Market Scene, Northern Town (detail) (1939) @Lowry

Dogs in paintings Good dog #8 Federic Barocci, Virgin of the People (detail) (1579) @Uffizi

Dogs in paintings Good dog #7 Joseph Wright 'of Derby', Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman (detail)(c. 1770-1772) @National Gallery

Our Summer Journal for De Morgan Friends is out now.

Sun, stone, and shadows at Forde Abbey last week

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Behind the scenes at Sorcieres exhibition install at Pont Aven Museum, opening next month!

You can never have too many fox prints, as far as I am concerned. This one is fabulous. #Hiroshige #BritishMuseum

He's even more delightful in person! What a great speech. #Hiroshige

Exhibition open now. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

The lovely 'Luna' by Evelyn De Morgan - see her in the Guildhall Art Gallery exhibition, open now! #BlueSkyMonday

Nice #Arch

#FloraFriday. Flora, Evelyn De Morgan’s masterpiece, has returned to our partner venue, Wightwick Manor, @nationaltrust.bsky.social. It’s now on display, with a preparatory sketch in the De Morgan Malthouse Gallery. Have you visited the Manor in Wolverhampton yet? #preraphaelite #evelyndemorgan

New exhibition launching at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, soon! One of the most remarkable artists of her generation, Evelyn De Morgan, is returning to Guildhall Art Gallery this April in an exhibition that premieres two newly restored artworks. Find out more: bit.ly/3QftfhI

Dogs in paintings Good dog #6 Giovanni Panini, The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio (detail) (1743-4) @National Gallery

Tiles on Tuesday Did you know Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll) had William De Morgan tiles in his rooms at Oxford? (Yes, there's a Dodo) #DeMorgan #FantasticBeasts

As we leave the year of the dragon and enter the year of the snake for the Luna New Year, this felt appropriate. Dragon and Snake Plate, William De Morgan Red and gold lustre plate with a winged dragon fighting a snake. #FantasticBeasts #Arts&Crafts #LusciousLustreware #DeMorgan

These ladies have been busy lately, haven't they? The Storm Spirits (1900), Evelyn De Morgan

Years ago on holiday with some friends in Ludlow I suggested we visit a nearby stone circle. I think they were expecting a Stonehenge* type thing .... we arrived, and ... grumpy faces all round - clearly not true stone circle fans! * not a true henge

Slàinte Mhath, fellow wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beasties.

Tiles on Tuesday William De Morgan, Galleon Tile Panel (1895) 40 x 6″ square tiles with a scene of sailing ships, birds and sea creatures. Fulham Period. Possibly designed as part of William De Morgan’'s commissions for P&O, maybe for the s.s.Malta. #DeMorgan #Galleons #CeramicTiles

Flowers on Friday Nothing more to be said about the utterly gorgeous Flora. Flora (1894), Evelyn De Morgan.

A tile on Tuesday Multi-lustre Dodo tile (1898), William De Morgan

Flowers on Friday Slightly different this time... Bedford Park Daisy, William De Morgan, 1904. Tin glazed earthenware. 6".

Nice shout out today by the V&A for William De Morgan www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wil... Of course, the De Morgan Foundation has the world's largest single collection of works by William and Evelyn De Morgan, browse here: www.demorgan.org.uk #Arts&Crafts #DeMorgan

As it's Twelfth Night when all the deccies come down everywhere looks a little bare, so let's have some lavishness. The Forerunner (1920), Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Lady Lever Art Gallery (A shame this lovely piece is secreted in an alcove at LLAG, but they do have so many riches).

It was a bit parky on the seafront at Leasowe Lighthouse on New Year's Day!

Well, what do we have here? Dalgliesh, Death in Holy Orders, C5/My5, Ep2 Spot the Evelyn De Morgan! Obviously it's a copy, as the original hangs in the De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall, Barnsley. By the Waters of Babylon, Evelyn De Morgan (1882 - 1883). www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/b...

Evelyn De Morgan, ‘Gloria in Excelsis’ (1893) compositional study in black and gold. Evelyn made around 17 gold drawings, each a unique artwork in which she has experimented with composition and medium to demonstrate her artistic skill, and they were designed to be sold as finished artworks.

Ruby lustre-glazed earthenware vase, sent to William De Morgan in Florence, Christmas 1897, made for him by the workers at his Sands End Pottery in Fulham, SW London It's inscribed: ALL THIS OF POT AND POTTER TELL ME THEN WHO IS THE POTTER, PRAY AND WHO THE POT’ from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Flowers on Fridays Claude Monet, 'Vase of Flowers', (begun 1881, finished 1920) @ Courtauld.

Small but lovely exhibition of Monet's views of the Thames. So many ways he found to treat the same view, showing London in all its Victorian smoggy glory. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Today's weather.

Dogs in paintings Good dog #5 Triptych - The Aachen Altarpiece (detail) (c.1490-1495) @Walker Art Gallery

Flowers on Fridays The Swans (1899) (detail), Edward Atkinson Hornel @ Kelvingrove

XMAS MARKET. This Saturday I'll be at the new studios of Arthub at The Mornington Centre in New Cross London with my linocuts, etchings and cards 11-5. Free entry. Celebrating 25 years of Arthub!

That Monday morning watercooler moment when you really don't care what they did at the weekend. (detail: St. Bernardino Preaching, Francesco di Giorgio Martini; Lorenzo di Pietro di Giovanni Vecchietta Studio of, c.1462-63, Walker Art Gallery)

Absolutely blown away by this, recently acquired by the British Museum Prints & Drawings department. I've never come across this artist before. Glorious perfection in a print. Lea Ignatious, Soutaja (1981)

Today's weather ☹️ (Ethel Spowers, 'Wet afternoon', 1929)