@j-bland.bsky.social
paints, teaches, writes. Canterbury via Grimsby.
Shandy Drinker, 50cm x 40cm, oil on canvas
09.12.2025 20:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#foxoftheday just figuring out it’s not alone.
23.07.2025 07:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canterbury cemetery yesterday, oil on canvas
20.07.2025 13:34 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A shame there’s no detail on the rescue plan for the docks. Is it over or ongoing? Sadly the Ice Factory has been allowed to crumble and the site remains inaccessible except via a checkpoint. Even the one cafe has closed. It’s ominous.
24.06.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fun day on Sat at the Mall Galleries painting a pirtrait demo. The red arrows flew overhead, naked cyclists in Trafalgar Sq for afters.
16.06.2025 16:17 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three Grimsby paintings will be in London 12 - 21 Jun at the Mall Galleries, for the New English Art Club Annual Exhibition.
03.06.2025 07:10 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Procession with Children, 90cm x 60cm, oil on canvas 2025
12.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pascal, oil on canvas, continued
28.04.2025 15:19 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve been painting this street for years. It might actually be finished.
27.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Carel Weight ' (1908-1997) ' Bringing home the Bottles ' c. 1960s
Carel Weight ' (1908-1997) ' Bringing home the Bottles ' c. 1960s ♥️
#Britishart #painting #colours
thanks, whb!
20.04.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Grimsby’s Victoria Flour Mill, painted last Saturday. 40cm x 60cm, oil on canvas
16.04.2025 19:28 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thanks, Penelope!
16.04.2025 09:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The telecom exchange, Grimsby, painted last Friday, 40cm x 60cm, oil on canvas
15.04.2025 19:46 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Portrait of Abi, 60cm x 50cm oil on canvas
08.04.2025 15:08 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today at Candid Arts in Islington, 40cm x 60cm oil on canvas
05.04.2025 21:20 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to share that I won the Rudolph Blume Foundation Acquisition Award 2025 at the Young Masters Awards Ceremony recently 🎉
The Young Masters exhibition continues until April 8th at The Exhibitionist Hotel in South Kensington.
A couple of Doctor Who paintings I made during lockdown, when comfort TV and side projects were mandatory. I’d love to see more art shared on this platform. Old or new.
27.03.2025 21:31 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
portrait of artist & current NEAC scholar Rizza Zahid, oil on canvas, 41cm x 35cm- applications open now for 2025: www,neac.co.uk/scholarship
27.03.2025 21:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Duke’s Meadow, oil on canvas, 41cm x 85cm
19.03.2025 13:08 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pascal, oil on canvas, 45cm x 30cm #art #painting
05.03.2025 20:43 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two beautiful bottles (ketchup and ?), oil on panel, 40cm x 30cm
#painting #art
St Mary’s on the Sea, 81cm x 61cm, oil on canvas
27.02.2025 21:50 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two oil monotypes of Sheila Fell
21.02.2025 18:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Dreaded Sunny Day opens today (14 Feb 2025) at the Lilford Gallery, Canterbury. Preview 6pm - 9pm, no need to rsvp.
14.02.2025 12:35 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Boy with Comic.' (c1953) Of all the children who sat for Joan Eardley, Andrew Sampson was her favourite - a boldly but sensitively painted work, a picture which has authority and presence; a proper portrait and not a caricature.
'Boy with Comic.' (c1953) Of all the children who sat for Joan Eardley, Andrew Sampson was her favourite - a boldly but sensitively painted work, a picture which has authority and presence; a proper portrait and not a caricature.
13.02.2025 19:57 — 👍 105 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
painting
I painted Annabelle when one of my bad roomies friends dropped her off at my place, unannounced. My roommate refused to watch Annabelle. I took care of Annabelle for three days. Had to shorten this story 'cause everyone wants to be twitter for some reason.
#portrait #painting #artwork #longstory
A Dreaded Sunny Day
solo exhibition
Lilford Gallery
Canterbury
14-28 February
p.v. Fri 14 Feb 6-8pm
More wintry light, oil on panel.
03.02.2025 19:05 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Instagram is the main platform I’ve used for c.10 years (@ j.bland), but I also have a normal website: www.jamesblandpaintings.com
27.01.2025 18:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
