Helen Saxton

This image captures a moment at Brimham Rocks, a National Trust site known for its unique and balancing rock formations. The rocks were formed over 300 million years ago by a large river, with subsequent erosion by ice, wind, and rain sculpting them into their current "impossible" shapes. Located on Brimham Moor in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the site is a popular destination for hikers, climbers, and families. Many of the formations have been given imaginative names, such as "The Sphinx," "The Watchdog," and "The Idol," and some have local legends attached to them. The area is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to its geological and biological significance. Image Barney Moss CC BY 2.0

Brimham Rocks is a collection of wonderfully shaped millstone grit formations created over more than 320 million years. When the stone was first laid down, this part of Yorkshire lay near the equator, warm and tropical, crossed by vast river deltas that deposited sand, grit and

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Red YT wtf circle around the black and white image of a fish with a big black eye. It's a predaceous chub.

🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.

Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?

Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?

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Print featuring a dramatic red, gold and blue dawn or sunset over a hilly landscape with a row of bare winter trees in silhouette

Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

'A winter sunset over Bolton Priory to mark the winter solstice' The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154.

'A winter sunset over Bolton Priory to mark today's winter solstice' The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154. The canons lived and worshipped here until 1539

I don’t know why this didn’t post the first time, so annoyingly I’m having to do this again. A snowy owl in flight is painted into a bricked up window frame on a pink house above its red door

Brighton Street Art Advent Calendar, Day 13

North Laine

Tim Green photograph of Sandbeds, Queensbury in Bradford. It is often the first area in the region to experience snow, which tends to stay longer than in lower-lying areas.

Love the painting like quality of this Tim Green photograph of Sandbeds, Queensbury in Bradford. At over 1,100 feet above sea level It is often the first area in the region to experience snow, which tends to stay longer than in lower-lying areas. CC BY 2.0

Painting of young woman with purple bob wearing a wolf skin

Brighton Street Art Advent Calendar, Day 5

North Laine

Photo featuring two sculptures of horses created with driftwood, side view facing each other on a beach in shallow water with reflections in blue sand under a pale blue sky

Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart

Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor

The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Photo of a white woman standing by a table on which a large pink crocheted organic looking piece rests

Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart

A brown pelican, just appearing as a black bird against a muted orange sky, dives into the ocean.

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

Photo of a street with a woman and child looking down to a painting on the stone floor of a view to a cityscape

Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt

Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

Photo close-up of a stained glass window with spiral design and in varios volours

Stained glass roof of The Peace Portal, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia by glass artist Ulla Darni #womensart

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Painting with a series of images, one above the other, showing the same scene of a park with grass trees, a pond, over a 24 hour period with xhanging light and changing interactions from people and animals

One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

A circular embroidery in a wooden hoop of the White Horse using various stitches including hundreds of French knots for the main grass, long and short for the folds of the hill below the horse, and turkey tail for a field and scattered trees.

Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...

Sculpture resembling a sitting fox with large ears in dark blue with star constellations overvits body

Fennec fox (dog star) by Anne Lemanski #womensart

Ah no, sorry, it used to but not now

Chemistry Education Research and Practice @cerp.rsc.org is free to access

Embroidery hoop with pictorial embroidery resembling a forest in silhouette under a deep blue starry sky

Hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt

Colourful print featuring a silhouette of a large tree in the valley between two rising slopes either side, under a streaked pink and yellow sky

One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart

Photo of a large boulder covered in knitted and crocheted patterned material, among other uncovered rocks on a grassy surface under a pale sky

The Faroe Islands have a unique summer tradition where a large rock in Sandur is yarn-bombed by local women, inspired by a local legend about a "Troll Woman's cave"...... #WomensArt

Colourful and busy embroidered artwork featuring stylised animals, birds and plants on a white background

Embroidered artwork created by women of the Otomi people of the central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt

Photo of a willow sculpture in a woodland, the sculpture resembles a female archer with flowing long skirt about to shoot an arrow into the distance

UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt

Print in blue of a manual typewriter facing forwards with a paper inserted with a text which states "every day I love you more. Well not every day- yesterday you were a bit annoying xx' x

Fiona Watson, visual artist based in Scotland with a diverse body of work including printmaking and digital art...
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

A fallen oak turned into a bench with elaborate carvings resembling oak leaves

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic

Photo: Pete Seaward

Absolutely this - it's not a race, it's a community event and *everyone* is welcome

Rowena Cade (1893–1983) artist, builder, creator of the open air cliff-side Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt