Charlotte Loukes

Cavapoo watching television screen showing close up of a leopard. From Attenborough’s Kingdom series

Dog’s watching her favourite programme. Wish we could see it 🙄… #kingdom #attenborough

Don’t get me started on the docu-drama thing. I can be very boring on the subject.

Art for sale today and tomorrow in #petworthuk #artexhibition #sussex

Oh dear god I’d forgotten about this atrocity #totp

PJ Harvey is perfection #totp

Robbie saving us from utter mediocrity #totp

Week of dreary pop so far #totp

Important message on inequity and entitlement from @kevinclimate.bsky.social on #radio4 #Today this morning. It’s so pertinent this morning as we hear about the shareholder vote at a car company.

Dog’s not fussed either way…

18 months after giving up a career - a rollercoaster of battling cash flow, standing awkwardly at exhibitions & network meetings. But also selling work, getting exhibited, forming an alliance with a great photographer & doing what I love. There’s never a good time so perhaps just do it? #hope #art

Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost

Happy Hallowe’eeeeeeeen!

Watercolour and pastel painting of a sunken country footpath. Brown and ginger coloured leaves on the path with trees and ferns on either side. Original work by Charlotte Loukes

The Sunken Lane - watercolour & pastel. ‘Tis the season of shuffling through leaves, with my Mum’s warning of hidden dog poop ringing in my ears!
The spiral of path, hedge and trees always bewitching!
#halloween #originalart

Invitation to join me at Kerry-Lynne Photography’s Open House 8-9 November in #Petworth

Kind of given up trying to play their game. I feel like Sisyphus every time I post

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Peru: Uncontacted Mashco Piro dangerously close to resumed logging operations in their territory In Peru an Indigenous community is reporting that uncontacted Mashco Piro people have recently come into their village.

What arrogance these companies have. There’s a name for an illegal self interest that wipes out an indigenous people. www.survivalinternational.org/news/14307

Watercolour and pastel painting of a ploughed field with distant trees, buildings and hills. Lodsworth view with Langham brewery in West Sussex UK. Original work by Charlotte Loukes

Watercolour, gouache and pastel painting of a small black shed in front of Autumnal trees. Duncton in West Sussex UK. Original work by Charlotte Loukes

Watercolour painting of a house glimpsed between the branches of a tree. Duncton in West Sussex UK. Original work by Charlotte Loukes

Some recent paintings which I enjoyed but I’m going back to roads, paths and hollow ways again. Perfect for Hallowe’en

They act with impunity because they can, no one stops them until it’s too late. All the world’s ills are because they want more power and money.
Anyway here’s a painting I’ve started…it’s going well so far #painting #watercolour

We’re well and truly through the looking glass.

Forget modern horrors. Michael Hordern running from the phantom on the beach, in Jonathan Miller’s 1968 ‘Whistle and I’ll come to you’ is perfection for me. The sound, the claustrophobic filming, Hordern’s terror…sublime. #uncanny #ghoststories #mrjames #nightmares

‘Dashed about the place’ is my favourite line…

Falling into Autumn Writing doesn’t come easy to me; I find it hard enough to share my paintings without having to talk about them. I’m the artist standing on my own watching others seemingly at ease chatting about their...

Blogging for the first time, thinking about the changing of the season and being positive. #blog #autumn #mentalhealth #positivity

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Painting going better today when I discover @midnightburger.bsky.social is back…
#podcast #painting #contemporaryart #sussex #createsoutheast

BBC Radio 4 Appeal: Education & Hope for Rohingya Children Support Children on the Edge's BBC Radio 4 Appeal this October. Help provide vital education & safe spaces for Rohingya children in Bangladesh. All donations matched up to £25k.

My friend's charity Children on the Edge is on R4 this week! Hear how your gift can help refugee children learn in their own language - it's airing on Sun at 07:54 & 21:25 or Thurs at 15:27. A foundation will match the first £25k donated! bit.ly/radio-4-appeal

I was convinced I’d live in a Suuronen ‘Futuro’ house when I grew up. Contemporary house building is disappointingly shit in comparison.

A very similar thing happened to me twice in a basement Georgian flat in Bath.
Footsteps down the corridor, door opening, rustling duvet then pressure on my chest. It was so real and terrifying. Would Ciaran say it was sleep paralysis? I prefer the sceptical explanation to Fuseli’s!

Just discovered Fisk on Netflix. It’s a gem!

Another great episode. Now my favourite podcast.
I always say to my son, all I want for you in life is to be happy, I didn’t realise how woke that was!
Please know that the ‘we love you very much’ sign off always makes me smile 🥰

I’ve only ever had Deezer. I love that their new music suggestions are really international.