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ianarchie.bsky.social @ianarchie.bsky.social · 12h

Winter Headlights Isleworth: acrylic on canvas

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Duille @duille.com · 5d

"The Boat to Greenwich". Edward Ardizzone. Before 1979.

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 2h

#Neverenoughblue

Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 2h

A molded soft-paste porcelain sugar bowl with underglaze blue lambrequin decoration above molded gadroons and a lid with similar lambrequins along the edge and a blue-painted knop.
Saint-Cloud, first quarter of the 18th century. Fairly simple with fine decoration, inspired by a silver form. (ALT)

MEASUREMENTS
4 1/2” (11.5 cm) in height, 4 3/8” (11.1 cm) in diameter.

PROVENANCE
Doyle, New York, Sale 25CN01, Old Master Paintings/Phipps Collection/Silver/English & Continental Furniture, 29 January 2025, lot 497 (part).

With the Saint-Cloud ‘sun’ mark in underglaze blue.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6h

'Wimpole House', Marylebone (from 'Isolation Views', 2020) by Frank Laws
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Darren Lakin @darrenlakin.bsky.social · 5h

Evening all.
An old upcycle...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3h

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 3h

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Swiftie-inspired Chalkboard: Blue Cypress Books

"If you are a bookstore that’s open for 8 hours you can play life of a showgirl 12 times between open and close just like if you were wondering

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Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 7d

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 8h

Proof that your social media manager spent the weekend listening to Taylor Swift's new album. #TheFateOfOphelia #TheLifeOfAShowgirl

These images of Ophelia are from Shakespeare's Heroines, illustrated by R. Anning Bell, 1901 (Lit.7.90.365).

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 22h

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5d

Ladybird cover stories.
The fairy tales illustrated by artist Robert Lumley.
(Books published between 1965 - 1974)

Collection of 13 books, laid out in an approximate grid, showing the front covers of Robert Lumley‘s original fairytale books, including the enormous turnip and the elves and the Shoemaker

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
October (Shell Guide, 1957)
Artist: SR Badmin

Finally detailed mixed media illustration looking down into a mature glade of autumn trees. In the foreground the picture is framed by leaves and fruit of the same trees.

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 22h

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

My travelling ‘Ladybird artists’ exhibition is still going strong!

Next year, Cambridge and Mansfield
2027 (tbc) Southampton and Motherwell
2028 Lichfield

Photograph of myself, smiling cheesily as I stand in front of the wall of books which is the centrepiece of my ladybird artists exhibition

Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 22h

#endpapers

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d

Ladybird book endpapers design.
From the 2007 book published by Penguin called ‘Boys and Girls’

The endpapers design is made up of a series of different ladybird book covers laid out neatly in an 8 x 7 grid

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

Monday again - busy, busy with all those important documents

Artist: Harry Wingfield (1971)

A toddler is intent in scribbling in green crayon over some scrap paper. Various other sheets of similar work are scattered around.

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CAM @noremacflak.bsky.social · 1d

I showed my wife this, but she didn't laugh.

A man with a stack of books is looking for shelf space. Artist ~ Tom Gauld

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 5d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Milk, honey, or Lemon?' by #printmaker Catherine C.E.Walker
#WomensArt

Print in black and white featuring a round boiling kettle on an electric hob next to a number of jars and bottles on a kitchen surface

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 5d

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 5d

Very different kind of 18th-century bindings from yesterday's photo, but I still love them.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 5d

Very different kind of 18th-century bindings from yesterday's photo, but I still love them.

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 5d

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 6d

Who doesn't like a bit of 18th-century bling?

Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 5d

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d

The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 5d

If the "AI" in "AI Assistant" means "Annoying Interference" then it turns out I have my very own. 😆

Grey tabby cat attacking my pencil when I'm trying to mark in-class exercises

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 6d

Claudia McGehee Illustration
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

Indigenous artist Emily Kam Kngwarray is the first Australian artist to have a solo exhibition at London's Tate Modern. Featuring over 80 of her batiks and large paintings, capturing her ancestral land, the exhibition runs until January 2026 #WomensArt

Photo of a gallery space with large suspended and wall mounted artworks, the walls are white and the floor brown, two women view the art

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 6d

Cakes and candy, hotdogs and cheese.

The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday.

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Serena Cockayne Jones @cockaynejones.bsky.social · 6d

#writemoreletters #sendmorecards

Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 6d

oh, the thrill of an actual letter, from a friend from film school, with his animator's eye for a flourish - somebody I thought I'd lost contact with when I left Instagram.

(I have used Toby's mouse from Green Knowe to obscure my address, so none of you come round and make pizza or cinnamon rolls)

a letter with handwritten address, lots of ink stamps and postage stamps adorn the envelope. I miss this corner of the world.