Opportunity for artists 35 and under living, studying or working in the UK! Only a few more days to submit. Rome Scholarship and exhibition at the ROSL as well as prize money. www.therba.org/rome-scholar...

My understanding of how to be a good person, a good citizen, has been to be a role model for those after us and those who have not yet learned. To be ruled by people who don’t value this tenet is heartbreaking. Alex, Michael and Susan, you are my people and I grieve with you.

The Food of Love, egg tempera on panel, 21 x 30, January 2026 “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die,” William Shakespeare,Twelfth Night. #art #fineart #painting #eggtempera #stilllife #food #colour

In case you were worried about speaking up, as @bradleywhitford.bsky.social says, it's your right! Use your platform, build a community, help however you can. #ProudBlue

Looking forward to hearing this reasonable voice!

Oh dear. This seems a little iffy… ‘ the draft charter "seems to suggest that Trump himself would control the money"’ www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-w...

More corruption by the guy whose only check is his own morality! #pardons #Trump #immoral #partisan #political #grift #gift www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

First painting of 2026! A Flagon and a bunch of grapes. Egg tempera on panel, 31x30cm. Was thinking of the simple pleasures in life. #art #stillife #eggtempera #colour #flowers #peasant

That’s some ***bad*** maths.

I’ve been explaining to my British husband what I heard Senator Murphy say youtu.be/B6PDQdgFWK4?... Here’s his shocking view of where we are and what is coming. #news #fascisn #policestate #ICE #Trump

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... I remember serving tea to celebs raising money for PBS in NYC when I was a pre-teen. Meanwhile Trump was Trumping in real estate in nextdoor. 😩

The history books are going to have a picnic with this era. It’s a bonkers as Henry the VIII th!

Steven Miller thinks Greenland “rightfully belongs” to the US and that they can “seize” it… #imperialism #gift #Greenland #authoritarianism #Trump #Miller www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Some details from 2025 paintings. Which character from my painted stories speaks to you? #ceramicpets #painting #art #fineart #eggtempera#animals#dogs #cats #birds #horses #colour

Reposting this. Was listening to Nicole Wallace talking to Joan Baez yesterday. I live in rural England. My almost 92 year old mum is visiting from the US. I have CML. I can’t protest today but I can do the little thing of spreading the word. Am there with you all! #warcrime #Venezuela #protest

Thousands of New Yorkers packed the plaza outside City Hall and the streets of Lower Manhattan to see Mayor Zohran Mamdani take office on Thursday. See more photos here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

Yes! A badass hero! An icon of justice. #badass #Jack #prosecutor #justice #democracy #law

When I served in the Peace Corps in Kenya one strand of our safety net was the Ambassadors. So sad Trump doesn’t understand the concept of an ecosystem. #trump #foreignpolicy #ambassadors #ignorance www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Omg, I have spent THE WEEK painting and re-painting this titchy 20 x 14 egg tempera portrait (surprise 70th birthday present). He’s a mixed farmer in Suffolk. DON’t tell! #farmer #pig #art #painting #portrait #surprise

What a sick man. www.ms.now/news/trumps-...

“In the absence of a clearly articulated strategy,” he said, the concern was that “this could just devolve to arbitrary deals that favor friends or disfavor foes.” #grift #kickbacks #deals #Trump #tax #ownership #news #government www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Donny Trump

‘Go to Florida’ pastel on book pages, November 2025 I was looking through my books ready for drawings and found one I had prepared with Florida in mind. I love night drawings. #night #flamingos #pasteldrawing #art #drawing #lake #books -#pkants

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving together in 2017 — while Trump was in office.

Real world costs of MAHA. ‘I can’t diet, detox or exercise my way out of cancer. The only reason I’m alive to write this is because of the treatments afforded to me by earlier investments in research’ #gift #cancer #MAHA #cuts #RFK #health www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Good morning. Hate waking up to this news. #HSA #ACA #healthcare #betrayal #greed #trump #plan Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

My instinct was not to give in. My question is whether the caucus agrees who will vote that the right number of people vote for the outcome desired and that masks a larger group who were heading that way? #gift #democracy #shutdown #appeasement www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Make a ripple! #gift #justice #thelaw #dishonesty www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u... #gift #aids #sanfrancisco #Pelosi #humanity Interesting to compare her response to Trumps about people in need, care and illness.

A bit more to do on this one. ‘Look who visits when the Lotus Flower Blooms’, egg tempera on panel, 27 x 20. We’ve had a series of houseguests. The flowers are leftover. One set has a Siamese cat. Another gave me the mouse! #cat #flamingo #mouse #flowers fruit #colour

Although just another predictable step towards autocracy, this is shockingly ‘Orwellian’.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c... #gift #selfinterest #climate

Seeing this made me weepy. The tenderness of building a garden is something you feel when you visit it. Erased indeed.

Childless Cat Ladies, egg tempera on panel, 20 x30 cm. Oct 2025 #painting #cat #flowers #funny #catladies #humour #stilllife #eggtempera #art #painting

‘It’s not even clear we’ll know’ #gift #corruption #justice #Trump #payouts #sleaze www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Holy shit!! That's Boston Common I believe.

🚨What’s up Washington D.C.?!? Message clear: No Kings. 1/2

“No tyrants” rally in London, outside the U.S. Embassy, curtesy of @erichmcelroy.bsky.social.👇

#gift #pentagon #Hegseth #journalism #fascism #history #news #tax #representation wapo.st/47c1Rtn So much for our taxes being used to improve our lives, protect us and make this a more perfect union.

Today’s gift! @goodport.bsky.social #gift #lentils #recipes #healthyeating #NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Finished! My Annual Office Party, egg tempera on panel, 20.5 x 30.5cm, October 2025 I make a holiday card every year. I thought of the figurines in this as people who came to my office Christmas party. Who would you like to talk to? #holly #art #painting #eggtempera #red #cat #dog #lion

Used my last set up,changed some fabric, the shape of my panel and am painting what I see. WIP, day two. It will be my holiday card. #art#painting #stilllife#eggtempera #holiday #pink #rose#cat #dog #hollt #guanyin #pattern

And this is a horrible story. #news #techbros #antichrist #Thiel #lecture #ego #takeover #Christiannationalist wapo.st/4q5wR6S

Gifted from the Washington post… my year long subscription I stopped months ago is ending soon! I LOVE this article. #gift #mixedorientation #marriage #WAPO wapo.st/4o44pjK

Adventures Abroad, egg tempera on panel 3ix31, Oct 2025. Finished this! There was a tense moment when I mindlessly knocked over my water jar so that it left pools of water on the painting. After a while It dried and I was able to continue! #painting #art #stilllife #eggtempera

I grew up on the upper west side and he was a fixture in all our lives. #zabars #Gift #newyork #pickles #lox #mushrooms #cheese #ilovenewyork #upperwestside www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Day two of this one: Working title ‘A Visit to Yalding’ egg tempera on panel, 30 x 30. Made up of things that belong to my friend. I assembled a still life here with similar colour and shape and am substituting. #WIP #painting #stilllife #eggtempera #flowers #colour #art #symbolism