Claire Cansick
@clairecansick.bsky.social
Painter Norfolk, UK Government Art Collection | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art | Norwich Castle Museum | Cold Paradise | Jacksons 19&24 | Firstsite | Contemporary & Country https://linktr.ee/ClaireCansick
Burnt out at the moment so can't paint. But I did this once upon a time. It sold earlier this year.
Parkview, 2026. Gouache painting on purple St-Armand paper, 19 x 14cm. #painting #gouachepainting #art
We need to have to have a reckoning with the fact that our media class is mostly just dull as fuck driving gloves Tory 65 year olds who think behaving like an insufferable cunt is cool and funny
Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1516, Hieronymus Bosch. A truly unique mind. It was said that he painted humanity as we are on the inside, not just the outside. And it isn't pretty!
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
observer.co.uk
Finally have got to the bottom of my website shop issue. If you want a website, don't get a Wordpress one, unless you like spending half of Sunday talking to an engineer. Anyhow here it is all happy and working. clairecansick.com/shop/
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Burgh Castle: Roman Fort near Great Yarmouth George Christopher Davies, 1883.
‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
theguardian.com
A very interesting David Lynch painting. #DavidLynch A Figure Witnessing the Orchestration of Time, 1990
Ship of Fools, oil on panel, fragment of triptych, 1490-1500, by early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, died #OTD 1516. The Ship of Fools was an allegory of inept governance in Plato’s Republic and was further popularised by Sebastian Brant in his satire Das Narrenschiff 1494. Musée du Louvre
Posting this now so I can pretend to be psychic when it turns out in a couple of months that 40-70% of the men arrested for 'protesting' in Thetford were wife beaters, rapists and/or nonces
Looking for exhibitions to visit in August? Our What’s on feed makes it easy to find exhibitions, displays, talks, tours, and workshops across the UK 👉 https://artuk.org/visit/whats-on ‘The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil’ (detail) by Claude Monet (1840–1926) 📷 The National Gallery
Harrogate Army Foundation College. ANOTHER year, many more disturbing reports. Longtime policy @greenparty.org.uk - end recruitment of under 18s into military www.bbc.com/news/article...
Women tell BBC of rape and abuse at Army teen college
They say the incidents happened at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate when they were aged 17.
bbc.com
Lake Placid Florine Stettheimer, oil on canvas, 1919 www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/flor... #art #painting
Sunday Times refuses to apologise for Jeremy Clarkson column that compared disabled benefit claimants to dogs www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sunday-times...
Sunday Times refuses to apologise for Clarkson column that compared disabled benefit claimants to dogs
The Sunday Times has refused to apologise for a dehumanising column by television presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson, in which he compared disabled people who receive benefits to dogs. Clarks…
disabilitynewsservice.com
Nearly a quarter (24%) of families with children under the age of five experience food poverty, according to grim research published today.
Children under 5 suffer from food poverty as families forced to skip meals
mirror.co.uk
A new project, England’s Glory,it’s a subsection of my project, National Anthem, Land of Hope and Glory. I have completed nine boxes at the moment. These are vintage matchboxes I have been sourcing on eBay. The third disclosure: Food banks ©️Linda Hubbard 2026 #englandsglory
Not sure anyone in GY will notice the bin strike. The place is utterly filthy as it is.
Painting by Swedish artist Tommy Hilding. Ljus ‘Light’ 2017. Oil on linen. Size 100 x 80 cm.
The Danube River is so low that a whole fleet of sunken Nazi battleships are visible.
The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging
In the middle of the river separating Serbia and Romania near the Serbian port of Prahovo, a rusty hull is now visible along with a broken mast where the Nazi flag used to fly.
pbs.org
The Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
scientificamerican.com