18th century, Mongolia, Chitipati, polychrome carved bone and wood, private collection, photo on 1st dibs.

I’m embarrassed to report today was my first visit to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries high up in Westminster Abbey. Waxworks, effigies, souls in flight… now one of my highlights of London, and getting up close with that architecture……

A rare mushroom I made the acquaintance of. Wax sculpture and water soluble encaustic on wood. #artadventcalendar #fungi #botanicalart #sculpture #fungifriends

This is one of the best things ever @matthewmshaw.bsky.social @eleanorcrook.bsky.social

A wax reliquary type bust I made for our group show in Ghent a while back #sculpture

Bavarian Xmas decor, it touches my tiny heart

This was one of the late Brian Catling's favourite museums - you can see why from this photo. Despite his urging, I still haven't been. Yet!

And let's get December going! #ArtAdventCalendar Day 1 Nightwatch 22x44in 56x112cm Oil on Canvas 2023 #Art #Painting

Following our trip to Barcelona with

In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers By Philip O'Brien @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Two sculpted heads from Herefordshire find themselves at the British Museum. Expressive eyes and brows

Anyone know who this is by?

Patting the dogs of war, from my Troubled Times sketchbook

Anyone remember the old Stones restaurant at Avebury? It's long gone but I have the cookbook, just trying this one

Anyone remember the old Stones restaurant at Avebury? It's long gone but I have the cookbook, just trying this one

A floating skull wafts by your feed, drawn by me in carbon dust technique at the Gordon Museum

“I am no longer an artist, interested & curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, & may it burn their lousy souls” Paul Nash - 1/2:

These are at the Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, from November 6th to December 20th. Vernissage November 6th at 7pm. #botanicalart #mushrooms #fungi #flowers #bloomsky

Four heads of putti (c1760), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Some fine polychrome sculptures at Hereford Cathedral

These incredible figures, dating to the 19th century and made of walnut, are Bell Jacks and were once up at high level on Columbia Road Market in Bethnal Green. They’re huge, and very impressive to see ‘in the flesh’ 🤩

Memento of Mori in the sketchbook

A creeping collage painting from the sketchbook menaces your Wednesday

Accusatory collage from the sketchbook

One of my collages to cheer your Monday.

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Memento Mori from the Cathedral of Our Lady, Bruges 💀💀

Eurydice at the Gate of Hades - anatomical collage painting available from my website eleanorcrook.net, or as a print - drop me a dm if interested.

Some of the extraordinary Romanesque sculpture holdings of the Frederic Marès museum Barcelona

Dog and bone detail from a Renaissance tomb from Catalonia

Lifesize wax anatomical models in Madrid University’s medical museum, made locally and based on Albinus’s engravings

The monumental cemetery in Madrid, populated by cats and lizards but very srill

The large cemetery in Madrid , deserted and surreal

rolling in the brain like pebbles Life at War (first ~3 stanzas) Denise Levertov w nestled Rilke (highly recommended finding the rest of the poem) #poetrysunday +2

Death and the Maiden by Hans Baldung Grien - in Basel - the hand gesture of death is like a pistol

Fancy a career change and saving a critically endangered craft or heritage skill from extinction? Have a look at these. I'm currently undecided, but glass eye making and clay pipe making are top of my list! 👁️

Anyone remember this from the late 80s? Veronica Forrest Thompson stood the test of time well I think, in some decent company

Carved limewood hands, 15th or early16th century by Tilman Riemenschneider of Würtzberg

Pulpit in St Stephen’s Cathedral Vienna, with later coloured Baroque altar to the right

Anatomical collage from our exhibition in Zakynthos a few years back

Take a look at this. Someone did the same for me 8 years ago - donated their stem cells and saved my life when I had blood cancer, and donated again when I relapsed and saved me for the second time. So get on the @anthonynolan.bsky.social or @dkms-uk.bsky.social register and you could be a hero too.

Post five pleasures in life: 1. Peeking at bone fragments in fancy reliquaries 2. A truly sharp gouge biting into a lime wood carving in progress 3. A cheap guitar with good pickups and a low action 4. Arches watercolour paper blocks and a decent inky brush 5. Cable cars in the Dolomites .

Baroque #sculpture in the abbey overlooking Naples

I’ve had an amazing week in Ingolstadt for two inspiring conferences with wonderful people. And, of course, the Münster has this amazing transi tomb of Johannes Permetter, showing his corpse consumed by worms. Permetter died in 1505

A young visitor encounters my bronze #sculpture Three Fates at PAK gallery in Gistel, Belgium

Here are the first details, @variola13.bsky.social

More household bygones from the Basingstoke Museum

Bygones at the Willis museum Basingstoke