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Emma

@emmasartworks.bsky.social

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Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Also keen on rocks and fossils. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1h

Found this in the dunes at Seaton Carew (NE England) today - any ideas what it could have been? Bit of bone? It’s very light and doesn’t feel very robust.
#bone #science #nature

Photo of an object on the beach, chalk coloured and roughly symmetrical covered in tiny perforations

Photo of an object chalk coloured and roughly symmetrical covered in tiny perforations

Photo of an object 50mm across, chalk coloured and roughly symmetrical covered in tiny perforations

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1h

Redwing at Seaton Carew today.
@teesbirds.bsky.social

Phone photo of a Redwing thrush on short grass

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 2h

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 5h

Fungi and other finds from a visit to the Great Wood near Keswick in the English Lake District last week - particularly exciting to find Hen-of-the-woods (Maitake) which I’ve never found before, it’s not common in the UK. Pen and watercolour sketches.
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#fungi #lichen #plants
#fungiFriends #art

Ink and watercolour sketches of finds from Derwentwater, UK - lichen, acorns, horse chestnut case, honey fungi, grey knight fungi, amethyst deceiver fungi, hen of the woods (maitake) fungi and bonnet fungi.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 6h

Fancy writing poems about how we explore connections to landscape and history through the self portrait poem? I’ll be running this zoom workshop for @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on the 28th October

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Wendy Pratt Workshop - Self Portrait as Bronze Age Burial Mound

Wendy Pratt hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

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Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social · 1d

Jewels

If I leave last
Unknown hands will open drawers Empty pockets, tins and jars
Of tiny sand-packed shells
Wee pebbles worn smooth in the swell, and glass of soft-ground Gulf Stream green
And I will be on the West Beach with the oystercatchers
Singing
On the edge of the Atlantic

#PegsPoyums

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting.
#fossils #shells #art #nature
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Watercolour painting of shells found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England; there is a modern oyster shell on the left, showing outside and inside, though it is very sea-worn. The remainder are fossils from the lower Jurassic period (c200mya) - Cardinia bivalves, a fragment of Ammonite and Gryphaea oysters.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, this is a beautiful poem 🤩

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 1d

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting.
#fossils #shells #art #nature
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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 2d

I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

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