Chris S

@puddleswellies.bsky.social

Music. Maps. Gigs. Roaming half-forgotten paths. Photography, green lanes and ruins, vinyl, books.

Another Wrensday Wednesday shot - this time from the farm near Quorn. Sometimes I like to include a lot of background. In this case, it highlights how tiny the white-winged fairywren truly is. Just a blue pop of colour 🙂 #wrensday

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Writing a book on forgotten British artists has made me realise how many very good painters have been forgotten. This work is by the late Norfolk artist Geoffrey Burrows. For sale at £1200. richard@richardmorris.org

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In Skagen (Denmark) Peder Severin Krøyer focused on the landscape, local life, and community festivities. He was also captivated by the ‘blue hour’ and the effects of moonlight on Skagen beach or as here (1885) from the moors just north of the then village.

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'Gurnards Head.' (1947) Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a small but vital component of the St Ives school, arriving in Cornwall in 1940 just as Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and Barbara Hepworth were transforming the small fishing town into an unlikely hot-bed of British modernism.

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Changing it up a bit, a stile over Millstone Grit near Quernmore leading to Clougha Pike. And yes, there are Millstone Grit quernstones there, even if it is a tautology...

4 step ladder stile over dry stone wall leading to moorland