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

Bygones at the Willis museum Basingstoke

Patination session at Sculpture Castings of Basingstoke. Blue / verdigris cut back to bronze , now for a tiny flash of gilding

Patination session at Sculpture Castings of Basingstoke. Blue / verdigris cut back to bronze , now for a tiny flash of gilding

Also in Musei Vaticani- What a skillful depiction of action. Isn't the texture and the contour of the wave just perfect.🏺

For #ReliefWednesday a #Roman relief from Ostia depicting a tesserae workshop: two men are cutting stones to prepare tesserae (little cubes) for mosaics. Two other men are bringing stone slabs to be cut, while a fifth man is telling where to put the slabs. 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

Looking forward to this @swanriverpress.bsky.social

Introducing the July edition of the BHP guest editor series!!! ___ART & ANNIHILATION~ [edited & curated by July’s guest editor M. Forajter!!! @saint-remus.bsky.social Massive thank you to Meg & all who contributed your magic to this incredible edition ✨🖤 burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...

Every night I read a bit more of this strange delicate book

I’m reading Celia Paul’s “Letters to Gwen John”. She mentions this, Wilhelm Hammershoi 'From the British Museum. Winter' 1906, a view familiar to her

I’m reading Celia Paul’s “Letters to Gwen John”. She mentions this, Wilhelm Hammershoi 'From the British Museum. Winter' 1906, a view familiar to her

Sculpting at the mo, all day nearly every day, wax, clay, wax. Big figure, small figures, miniatures. The days fly by, it all feels oddly simple. Make a shape. Then another. I can’t share the process, wish I could, the progress from mess to order would be good to share.

Those Riemenschneider knock kneed saints touch my heart somehow

Those Riemenschneider knock kneed saints touch my heart somehow

Église Louise Bourgeois, Bonnieux en Luberon

Unexpectedly I find I enjoy looking at fancy armour. After many years of avoiding it in museums.

My fab new mug from the Redbubble collection of @lymphomalass.bsky.social 😍Thank you Sam xx www.redbubble.com/people/Lymph...

Shimmering heat at the Rollright Stones high up in the Cotswolds

My review of Ian Penman's brilliant book on Erik Satie, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

The great new book by the late Brian Catling now available from Swan River Press. It was my honour to do the cover paintings. t.co/uzVLNDOnV4

Tell everyone about Stone Club

Ibanez 2670 Artwood Twin

It has been a busy day at the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland with a large tour group and many visitors. Now I need a lie down.

The great new book by the late Brian Catling now available from Swan River Press. It was my honour to do the cover paintings. t.co/uzVLNDOnV4

'...in Germany, it is said that the first person who enters a new church becomes the property of the devil.' -William Henderson 🎨Heinrich Bürkel

The Medici did not end well, as seen in this marble bust of Cosimo III (penultimate grand duke of Tuscany of his line) by GB Foggini (c1715-20) @gallery.ca #c18th #c18 #18thc

If you want to see what Sanguine ie red chalk drawing can do, go see the Watteau drawing show at the British Museum, room 90 in the print room .

It occurred to me at the V&A today that in all my years of sculpture training we were never encouraged to make anything small and finely formed, not once ever, and that’s why I find scaling down harder than scaling up

My collage painting on canvas, The Faun in the Underworld, has found its home in Croatia, chosen from my webstore by an art loving member of the medical professional, which made my month! More work available here: www.eleanorcrook.net/for-sale

A warning to those of you who use WeTransfer (as we do) that their terms are changing next month to allow them to train LLMs on your data. You just can't get away from this scourge, it's relentless. filmstories.co.uk/news/wetrans...

__ART & ANNIHILATION~~ || end of the world >>+ gross body + ecological anxiety + HUMANS, HUMANS, HUMANS _____ sendsendxx July guesteditor @saint-remus.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

Things that I planted a few weeks ago are getting on ok

wonderful @mjohnharrison.bsky.social book I read couple of summers ago 🌞📖

Reconstruction at Notre Dame, so good and so swift, amazing

Captive stones in Beddgelert