At the pond, Sister Swallow. Each day, as my understanding expands, so does my idea of kin. Humans are no longer the only species in my community, my brotherhood. All living things - birds, trees, all nature - are my kin, equal. #birds #equality #vegan #art #community #photography

Iconic #birds of #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Honduras 🇭🇳 Keel-billed #Toucans are rainbow flocks of rainforest joy! 🦜🐦🪽 Help them survive be #vegan and call out #poaching and the illegal pet trade #Boycottpalmoil 🌴❌ #Boycott4Wildlife

This World Turtle Day, we shed light on the impacts of Bill 5 on Ontario's snapping turtles and their habitats. Help protect snapping turtles by sharing this post, our blog and educating others about the threats this species faces and the problems with #Bill5. 🔗: ontarionature.org/world-turtle...

The Buddha head in the tree that appeared a few months ago in a nearby ravine reminded me of the famous head in Thailand, and inspired this painting. Balance, asymmetry, and growth are key themes. #art #painting #buddhist #growth #nature #creative

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you doubt this, try posting a lovely pic of nature, or kids, with a happy few words. Then post a similar pic with news of those trying to destroy all that is good and holy. See the difference in ‘likes’ as the 80% turn away. #beauty #truth #nature #resist

Soon after sunrise, a feeding frenzy as cormorant, merganser, gull, and tern converge. #birds #sunrise #beauty #nature

A day enjoying beauty and culture, and marching against those who wish to destroy it all. Early bird watching, marching to oppose Israel and its allies’ appalling actions, and an evening at the opera. #birds #beauty #nature #sunrise #resist #palestine #nakba #opera

Towards evening, a Great Blue Heron in the marsh. #birds #nature #art #wildlife #photography #heron

Hermit Thrush’s are, I find, usually keen to avoid humans. I hear their lovely ‘swamp angel’ song often through summer, but rarely see them then. Only during early May do they come close, like this one, which hopped to within a metre of me. #birds #photography #nature #wildlife

Sat above me a yellow warbler enjoys early warmth. I don’t have a great camera and that’s on purpose; I like the process of sitting and waiting for birds to come close enough to photograph. Had I a long lens I’d probably use it and spoil the magic. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #beauty

I passed by the nest the previous 2 days, one of the parents was always sat there, arranging the eggs and down, then such a lovely surprise on my recent visit, to see the chicks have arrived. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #beauty #spring

Roller flying through early morning mist, over a Sri Lankan tea estate. Acrylic on 12x9” canvas. #birds #nature #painting #birdart #art

Scarlet Tanager lit up by sunrise, and coyote tracks leading along Point Pelee driftwood beach. A fine start to the morning. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography

Just a few metres from my sunrise viewing log at Point Pelee I found a Least Bittern in the woods, wonderfully illuminated by the soft early glow. #birds #nature #photography #beauty

I’ve come to Point Pelee NP to bird watch for the week. Love to begin each day with a mug of tea on the beach. I rarely get to see sunrise during everyday life so this is a real treat. #birdwatching #resistance #palestine

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‘Eagle’s view of Elephants bathing; morning light.’ “…Zen philosophy lays more stress upon the process through which perfection is sought than upon perfection itself. True beauty can be discovered only by one who mentally completes the incomplete.” #art #okakurakakuzo #painting #wildlife #nature

‘Yellow Linda with piano’, by Paul McCartney, 1988. The stool shown - and the items on it - used to belong to Rene Magritte; Linda bought it for Paul in a sale of the contents of Magritte’s studio. #oilpainting #paulmccartney #davesfaves #art #magritte #painting

The Egrets are back in my local park! #birds #birdwatching #nature #canada #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #egret

‘Late afternoon at a Yala Waterhole’, a new 9x12” painting, based on memories of my time in Sri Lanka, influenced by the aerial perspective so common in modern Australian First Nations art, which I love. #wildlifeart #natureart #painting #acrylic #landscape #srilanka #elephant #art #nature #birds

‘Unspoken Words’ by Paul McCartney, oil on canvas, 1994. #art #paulmccartney #davesfaves #oilpainting #painting

‘Shark on Georgica’ by Paul McCartney. Oil on canvas. After the Beatles Paul spent a lot of time on Long Island, sailing his small red boat on a pond (it’s in this painting) and talking art with Willem de Kooning. #art #paulmccartney #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

There’s an exhibit of Paul McCartney’s early photos on in town, it inspired me to get a book of his paintings. His painting is as experimental as much late Beatles music was, I like it a lot. I’ll post some later. #art #painting #beatles #paulmccartney #abstract

Morning light in my studio, on a ‘Birds Eye view of a deer walking through long grass’. #art #painting #humanmade #nature

Several years after her death, Mum’s sister reappeared before her and her siblings, smiling in the blue dress she was buried in, floating before the Atis tree (sugar apple). Recently I was told this story, and decided to paint it. Acrylic on 12x9 canvas. #art #painting #spirit

This morning I painted a Birds Eye view of a moose walking in a wind blown marsh. It began as a calm marsh but there’s a gale blowing outside and it made it in through my rattling windows and into the painting. #painting #art #natureart #moose #nature

Walking the ravine yesterday I saw a Buddha head in a tree. It reminded me of one I took a pinhole photo of in Thailand. My pinhole camera was a wooden box loaded with a single sheet of #illford paper, the exposure took about a minute. #pinhole #photography #spirituality #art

Coopers Hawk on the peninsula yesterday. It’s up on one foot which usually means with hawks (in my experience) that it’s already fed, and relaxed. #bird #nature #canada #wildlifephotography #photography

Golden hour, 10.30pm, West Fjords, Iceland. Another quick acrylic sketch in the style of Louisa Matthiasdottir, from memories of my visit last year. #art #travelart #painting #iceland #landscapepainting

Prepping for my next Iceland trip by reading everything I can get by Halldor Laxness, and copying work by Louisa Matthiasdottir. Her paintings capture the raw beauty and natural power I felt there, I’d like to learn her style. #painting #art #travelart #landscapepainting #books #iceland

1/ He walked into our church soup kitchen from a -20C winters day & headed for the piano, bent low under his rucksack & dragging a yellow shopping bag beneath him. I thought he’d want food or coffee - he looked tired & cold - but no. #arte #art #dailyart #volunteer #toronto #creative #spiritual

‘Are you interested in beauty, or just its representation?’ ‘Russian Ark’; Essential viewing for curious artists, art lovers, and those wishing to learn beyond the everyday Western propaganda. #beauty #art #film #russianfilm #arte #davesfaves

‘Mum escaping Palawan in 1942,’ acrylic on tin foil and waste plastic. Mum said the family took a Junk boat to escape the Japanese invasion, and had to brave the rough sea past an island where the vampire spirits lived. #art #arte #outsiderart #canadianart #dailyart #artsy #rawart

‘Apanyin’ by Patju Presley of the Pitjantjatjara people, Australia. Presley began painting on canvas when he was 59, his work is informed by the Western Desert, and stories of Country and Dreaming. #art #aboriginal #indigenousart #abstractart #davesfaves #australia

‘My Country’ by K B P Paul of the Kaiadilt peoples, Australia. The painting, influenced by Kaiadilt Ceremonial body designs, & living a traditional life away from Western culture, talks of coastal hunting and gathering on Bentinck Island. #art #davesfaves #indigenous #firstnations #australianart

‘Garak (The Universe)’ by Gulumbu Yunupinu of the Yolnu people, Australia. Painted using earth pigment on bark. Each cross represents a star, and all that’s visible in the known universe. The dots are everything that isn’t seen. All is connected. #indigenousart #art #stars #davesfaves

‘Girelal’ by Alick Tipoti, of the Maluyligal people of Zenadh-Kes, Australia. At the time of its making in 2011, this 130 x 830cm linocut was believed to be the largest print ever produced from a single linoleum block onto a single sheet. #art #davesfaves #indigenousart #linocut #australianart

King Eider are very rare here so I’ve been enjoying spending time around this one recently; it’s spent the past few months just offshore. #birds #ducks #nature #canada

‘Mapping the Cosmos from Kisai’, linocut printed from one 80cm x 128cm block, by Brian Robinson of the Torres Strait, Australia. #art #davesfaves #indigenousart #firstnations #linocut #australianart

‘Three Dreamings: Fire, Mulga Seed, and Emu,’ by Rosie Nangala Fleming of the Warlpiri people, NT, Australia. #art #davesfaves #firstnations #indigenousart

Morning light illuminates the poem taped to my desk. #poetry #palestine #thoughtful #equality

‘I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power’ Arundhati Roy ✊ m.thewire.in/article/book...

First day that felt like spring, had a long walk and enjoyed final sightings of the large flocks of Goldeneye that’ve been here all winter. They’ll be off north very soon. #birds #nature #ducks

‘Narrangem (Lightening Spirit)’ by Wally Mandarrk of the Kune peoples, NT, Aus. Natural pigments on bark. Mandarrk was a renowned rock painter who lived a traditional life. This image is of the spirit who creates lightening at the onset of monsoon. #art #davesfaves #firstnations #indigenousart

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

$12 for a standing ticket at the National Ballet; a great deal! Yesterday was a double bill ~ Suite en Blanc (a French classical piece) and Flight Pattern (a recent creation depicting the plight of refugees, very powerful work). #ballet #art

‘Gunungu the Black Headed Python’ by George Milpurrurru of the Ganalbingu people, NT, Australia. 1987. The python is a master of the monsoon, bringing on rains by seeding clouds with spittle and creating electric storms with his tongue. #art #davesfaves #indigenousart #firstnations #nature

‘Untitled’, by Yukultji Napangati. Yukultji is of the Pintupi people, Western Desert, Australia. She lived a nomadic life until she was 14, and had no contact with the West at all. Like much indigenous art there’s a calm walking pace on show in her work. #art #indigenous #australia

Great show. Afterwards Eddie said ‘This may not be the best time for a trans woman to be doing a world tour, so I’d appreciate if you shouted about it on socials.’ So, coming to the US next, then Aus & NZ. Check their website for dates. #eddieizzard #hamlet #theatre