Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
Move slowly and make things.
Move slowly and make things.
‘If your child kicks the back of my seat again it is not your child I will be taking it up with, you take my meaning?’ *turning* ‘Yes, yes! Film it, go on! Do I look like I give a f— ‘
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
‘If your child kicks the back of my seat again it is not your child I will be taking it up with, you take my meaning?’ *turning* ‘Yes, yes! Film it, go on! Do I look like I give a f— ‘
Surely being wined-and-dined at Windsor Castle on his recent state visit gave him the opportunity to notice that classy joints don’t use those spray gold three star wedding venue hotel function chairs?
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Surely being wined-and-dined at Windsor Castle on his recent state visit gave him the opportunity to notice that classy joints don’t use those spray gold three star wedding venue hotel function chairs?
He can’t say it not only because who he was then is who he is now but because signalling it to the likeminded is his core political strategy. This didn’t happen by mistake; this is not youthful silliness ⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
He can’t say it not only because who he was then is who he is now but because signalling it to the likeminded is his core political strategy. This didn’t happen by mistake; this is not youthful silliness ⬇️
A striking example: at some point someone thought it was fine to chop a doorway through the middle of Leonardo’s Last Supper. Personally I would strongly resist doing that, regardless what other people in history may have done.
Our brains exist for making choices.
Our brains exist for making choices.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A striking example: at some point someone thought it was fine to chop a doorway through the middle of Leonardo’s Last Supper. Personally I would strongly resist doing that, regardless what other people in history may have done.
Our brains exist for making choices.
Our brains exist for making choices.
Supposing that’s a serious question, I used to have a neighbour who kept Asian clouded leopards at his home in South London (as part of an endangered animal breeding programme). Perfectly legal, albeit with layers licensing and oversight.
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Supposing that’s a serious question, I used to have a neighbour who kept Asian clouded leopards at his home in South London (as part of an endangered animal breeding programme). Perfectly legal, albeit with layers licensing and oversight.
At St James’ Church at Cooling in Kent are still to be seen the 13 children’s graves surrounding that of their parents that inspired Dickens to write the opening chapter of Great Expectations.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
At St James’ Church at Cooling in Kent are still to be seen the 13 children’s graves surrounding that of their parents that inspired Dickens to write the opening chapter of Great Expectations.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
I hurried to check and the floor tile does not feature in Jan van Eyck’s painting of Chancellor Rolin because the picture was made a decade earlier. Still, any excuse to post one of the all time best paintings.
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I hurried to check and the floor tile does not feature in Jan van Eyck’s painting of Chancellor Rolin because the picture was made a decade earlier. Still, any excuse to post one of the all time best paintings.
These are the advocates of cultural cohesion. These are culture warriors who are antagonistic to anything even slightly unlike themselves.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
These are the advocates of cultural cohesion. These are culture warriors who are antagonistic to anything even slightly unlike themselves.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
Quite a plot twist when Elon Musk uses his trillion dollars to finally establish his base on Mars only to meet his nemesis amongst the tentacles of the terrifying Carnivorous Death Ball.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Quite a plot twist when Elon Musk uses his trillion dollars to finally establish his base on Mars only to meet his nemesis amongst the tentacles of the terrifying Carnivorous Death Ball.
The Frick does have a very fine ⬇️ van Eyck — though perhaps not as fine as the one (as yet still safely) in the Louvre.
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Frick does have a very fine ⬇️ van Eyck — though perhaps not as fine as the one (as yet still safely) in the Louvre.
Ah, blowing your own trumpet lichen.
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Ah, blowing your own trumpet lichen.
Like others I was surprised to hear Ann Summers were diversifying into the gardening sector. But I thought I’d try a sack of their grass seed and I must say the results are as you would expect.
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Like others I was surprised to hear Ann Summers were diversifying into the gardening sector. But I thought I’d try a sack of their grass seed and I must say the results are as you would expect.
The ballroom may look oversized beside the White House but there is something very Spinal Tap about Trump’s planned triumphal arch
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The ballroom may look oversized beside the White House but there is something very Spinal Tap about Trump’s planned triumphal arch
We can be confident Domenichino did not make a field trip to Sinai to research that landscape.
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We can be confident Domenichino did not make a field trip to Sinai to research that landscape.
A quick bit of research, apparently spiked wheel bolts are A Thing in America. Good Lord! What is happening inside these people’s heads and how are they allowed out of secure facilities?
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A quick bit of research, apparently spiked wheel bolts are A Thing in America. Good Lord! What is happening inside these people’s heads and how are they allowed out of secure facilities?
Also, what on earth is going on with the bolts on that truck’s front wheels?
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Also, what on earth is going on with the bolts on that truck’s front wheels?
That fashion for deliberate rips in clothing looks so silly. Ah well, at least that wouldn’t last.
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That fashion for deliberate rips in clothing looks so silly. Ah well, at least that wouldn’t last.
Not now, goofy adolescent brain! This is obviously very important and serious
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not now, goofy adolescent brain! This is obviously very important and serious
Ooo — which reminds me, I have my favourite ever @pantspants.bsky.social drawing framed on the wall by the door of my studio, so I can glance at it feelingly every time I leave.
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ooo — which reminds me, I have my favourite ever @pantspants.bsky.social drawing framed on the wall by the door of my studio, so I can glance at it feelingly every time I leave.
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
By the by, that article is an example of A.I. being cited as making an important difference. You see that sort of thing a fair amount at present and for all I know it is right. But they never explain *how* A.I. helps, as distinct from regular old-fashioned computer algorithms?
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
By the by, that article is an example of A.I. being cited as making an important difference. You see that sort of thing a fair amount at present and for all I know it is right. But they never explain *how* A.I. helps, as distinct from regular old-fashioned computer algorithms?
Post you from a different era.
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
October 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Post you from a different era.
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
By this stage you may feel you need a diagram — and here it is! (Courtesy of Wiki.) You will be pleased to see that the few artists who are not called Pieter or Jan are indeed called Dave 🙂
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
By this stage you may feel you need a diagram — and here it is! (Courtesy of Wiki.) You will be pleased to see that the few artists who are not called Pieter or Jan are indeed called Dave 🙂
A personification of Tory voters I wasn’t expecting today
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A personification of Tory voters I wasn’t expecting today
Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees