Now I’m well into my 2026 daily sketches here the some latest ones! #drawbrighton #dailydrawingpractice #expressivedrawing

I’ve finished two new artworks for my Fates and Furies series. Large piece titled ‘If Echo Spoke’ and smaller work titled ‘Upon The Breath’. Both mixed media works with charcoal, encaustic wax, gold leaf, collaged handmade papers and text (poems).

todays daily drawing pratice! #expressivedrawings #charcoaldrawing #lifedrawing

Maizy, the great life model @drawonline.bsky.social such a brilliant pose. Charcoal - stubby stick so no fine detail possible. #dailydrawingpractice #lifedrawing #charcoaldrawing #drawingpractice #expressivedrawings

Door knocker photographic giclée print encased in encaustic wax. Printed onto handmade paper and float framed onto handmade paper backing. A5. This will be in exhibition as part of Hydra Blue collection.

New work for upcoming exhibition. Portrait printed onto handmade paper then over painted and stitching added (including text). Collaged onto more handmade papersm. Smaller than my previous pieces (A5) #collage #dailydrawingpractice #textandimage #collagedrawings @drawonline.bsky.social

Charlie, the model in a great dynamic pose. From the photoset at @drawonline.bsky.social #charcoaldrawing #dailydrawing #expressivedrawing

Every clip from South Park is better than the last!

The wonderful model Castor from the photoset @drawonline.bsky.social in charcoal A3 #charcoaldrawing #portraitdrawing #dailydrawingpractice#expressivedrawing

Castor from @drawonline.bsky.social trying to speed up.A3 charcoal

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

New charcoal drawing of Castor, they model for @drawonline.bsky.social this was from a wonderful photoset of them. A3 size. #dailydrawing #charcoalsketch #expressivedrawing #lifemoddelsketching #subtractivedrawing #lighttodarksketching #drawing

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the cat gets in! #leonardcohenlyrics #kittens #hydraisland #hydracats

Still life beaded bag with tassels and mirror discs, and assorted fruit in charcoal and graphite

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

Sketchbooking on the beach in Greece

This one is especially important. There are a lot of ways to resist. They are all legitimate. What’s not is ignoring, excusing, or assisting this attack on our nation and the people within it. Stay strong. Stay United. #RadioFreeAmerica

Here's gang violence.

🔴Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Pro life my ass. Republicans are not prolife.

"The former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza" 👏👏👏 Imagine an ex-PM of Israel having to say that before our own government acknowledges it. Shocking.

Almost interchangeable quotes.

Body of work around photo albums. This inspired by antique album of photographs from Amazon 1900s,British engineer went in Amazon to build railway,rotting engines still lying abandoned in jungle now.Album in my imagination is love story between engineer and young Brazilian from bourgeois family.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays’ This is a GENUINE article published just now in The Telegraph.

Some shit never changes. He barely bothered to turn up as an MEP, barely bothers now he’s an MP. Can’t say he’s not consistent when it comes to lying, misuse of power, using his status to collab with the far right and his shameless dedication to conning taxpayers out of their hard earned money.

Happy Tuesday my Friends! I Hope You Have An Amazing Day!

Nigel Farage missed debate on Brexit reset because he is holidaying abroad www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage missed a debate on the biggest reset to the EU since Brexit because… he’s on holiday. Does he think he’s an MEP again? He’s made NINE trips abroad (eight to the US) since the GE, many funded by donors, some for other paid jobs. Recess is next week. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” - Donald J Trump #RadioFreeAmerica

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

Gary Lineker is a good man, a national treasure, a role model. Being forced out of MOTD because he’s horrified by war criminals murdering kids (in a war the BBC refuses to cover without fear or favour) is enraging. The BBC allows free speech, but only if you’re right wing.

"Farage is a midwife of failure. He is one of the root causes of the cost-of-living crisis in the UK. Farage’s policies have played havoc with our public finances and with our security. We need to call him out.” Stephen Gethins MP, talking to Bylines Scotland.

God the tabloids and Brexit dinosaurs were boring today… 🦖 Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever. Still they came out today to play victim yet again. But the world has moved on.

Labour can win every one of these arguments: on trade, on fish (sigh), on youth mobility. It has the public on its side.

Removing Brexit trade barriers on goods, including food and drink and electrical items, could result in a 2.2 per cent uplift in gross domestic product boosting economic growth. Plus a £25bn annual boost to British exports. - Don’t fail us on Monday Starmer! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We celebrate our ‘island of strangers’, you don’t, just like Farage. We celebrated our union with Europe, and want to reestablish that union, you don’t, just like Farage. What in God’s name are you about?

It’s high time we restore our young people’s rights to live, work and travel freely across the EU and give young Londoners and other Brits—and their European counterparts—access to an abundance of opportunities through a UK-EU Youth Mobility scheme.

Thank God for immigrants open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

It’s plain for all to see.

Finished first book of poems and accompanying illustrations. Giclee prints and text onto handmade papers. Soft board covers and stitched sections without glue so the pages lay flat. Will be a limited edition of five. Titled Fates and Furies. Ready for exhibition in September.

And if it is true they want to create "investor visas". The hypocrisy of that sentence is, that diversity is ok if its multimillionaires or winning Olympic medals for the UK. The Carer looking after your mother or disabled adults. Not really, they have done irrevocable damage. 🤬

They say we need British carers: But provide no provision to train or financial incentives for what is difficult, undervalued work. They say disabled people should work: Yet provide zero plans, provisions or incentives for employers. It’s just rhetoric, not considered policy.

In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged... ...it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK.

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

“But suddenly China shouted: the emperor is not wearing anything! And soon the news spread that the Emperor was naked. All the people shouted the Emperor is not wearing anything.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The real tragedy is that Island of Strangers would have made a perfectly decent title for a Booker -nominated novel and they've spaffed it on nativism instead.