I went to a really delightful exhibition of @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social prints (plus Sutherland, Hepworth, Piper et al) on Saturday, at the quirky Keate Family Arts Trust in Cambridge. Open til Aug 31st by appointment.
David Brown
@dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social
Printmaker and artist in East Anglia. Art, architecture, music & poetry. Borromini and Hawksmoor. Rembrandt and Hepworth. Work in the V&A & other public & private collections.
These 2 assholes decided it was a good idea to assault my partner and subject us both to transphobia. It happened in Castle Meadow, Norwich at around 16:55 and the next 15 minutes after they came back twice to subject us to transphobia and tell us to die in a river. . Make them famous.
I'm off for the weekend so here's tomorrow's #ButterflyWeek today. We rejoiced last week in the arrival of the very first White Admiral ever spotted in our garden. I do like it when butterflies visit and you don't have to chase them halfway around France.
Nigel Farage hypocrisy "the state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all" After he'd specifically rejected a package including a bodyguard, car and trained driver Meanwhile, Reform have no problem with their councillors saying others 'should be shot'
Oh - I am in love with this
Rebecca Guyver@rebeccaguyverart.bsky.social · 3w agoAlchemilla the Greenfinch and their two poodles, egg tempera on panel, 21 x 25 cm, June 2026. Alchemilla was believed to hold magical properties — water caught in its cups used for alchemy and I found more poodles to paint! #poodles #dogs #ceramicpet #painting #stilllife #bouquet #bird #greenfinch
Wow, stunning ..!
JBGarrity Photography@joegarrity.bsky.social · 2mo agoI took a liveaboard to Komodo, Indonesia, and dove Manta Alley, a cleaning station for Manta Rays. They visit the station to have cleaner fish groom them. My closest encounter... #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
450 years after she sat for her portrait, this old woman’s look is still piercing. By Bartolomeo Passarotti, whose day was today.
Laura Knight first became fascinated by gypsies at Ascot race meetings, they later invited her to their camp on the Common in Iver, Buckinghamshire where this work, of a Mr Smith, was painted in 1938.
Good morning and Happy Monday, Flying into Monday and a new week with ‘Woody’ a beautiful Brown Wood Owl at #SuffolkOwls U.K. Have a lovely day, hopefully catch up later… 🌿💛🦉🤎🪶💚☀️👋 📷 Jun ‘26 #Owls #Birds #Nature #Raptors #Photography #EastCoastKin
Today (22 June) is World Camel Day! For #mosaicMonday this amazing fragment of a Byzantine mosaic features a grazing camel. It is said to be from Syria. #worldcamelday Art Institute of Chicago 1970.1065 www.artic.edu/artworks/353...
Strong Thoughts Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2024
Casas en Auvers, junio de 1890 Vincent #vanGogh pintor neerlandés (1853-1890) Museo de Arte de Toledo, Ohio
2/2 17th-century graffiti. As signed by Pieter Saenredam, whose day is today.
🖼 The Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, 1875.
Tulips, roses, and and iris in a glass. With some cherries lying around. By Jacob van Es of Antwerp, whose day is today.
Please drop a line to your m.p. Suicide rates among trans people are staggering - think what a message this awful code of practice sends, especially to young people. Nadia Whittome MP has tabled an Early Day Motion. Ask your MP to sign it. www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org/oppose-the-e...
Oppose the EHRC draft Revised Code of Practice
We believe the third sector has a responsibility to uphold dignity, equality, inclusion and human rights for everyone - and to actively challenge discrimination and exclusion wherever it appears.
thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
Died (alas!) on this day in 1568, in Antwerp, painter Willem Key. Like yesterday's artist, his work was a victim of the 1566 iconoclasm. Most of what's left are portraits, like this one. With flower.
Has anyone got any clever ideas as to what this might say? Adam… Chava… ??? It’s on an endleaf in MS. Canon. Liturg. 216 medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manu...
Georges Braque - Toilet Table in Front of the Window , ca 1960
Just wishing we had a government which minds its people and nature.
swirlOsquirrel@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡
Squirrel's View of a Bull Moose Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.
Still life with fish with crab, shrimps, onions and oranges Baltazar Gomes Figueira, 1645 (Musée du Louvre)
Mary Cleophas and her children 15th century stained glass at All Souls College Chapel, Oxford. 📷Rex Harris
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 3mo agoFamily in Blaenafon, south Wales, photo by Walter Waygood, Welsh photographer.
