My painting of Pigeon Ravine Cemetery on the Somme. Acrylics on canvas paper, 42cm x 30cm.
28.10.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@artyjen.bsky.social
Former academic researching tourism and memory on the Western Front. Now I'm an artist painting landscapes and florals.
My painting of Pigeon Ravine Cemetery on the Somme. Acrylics on canvas paper, 42cm x 30cm.
28.10.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My new painting, Aloe Plant. Acrylics on gold leaf, 40cms x 30cms.
20.10.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's a few of you who might like this. Will explain in a thread for those who don't know about The Returned project we ran until 2018. Anyway Cheltenham Civic Soc have not only conserved and researched their collection of crosses, but have created a museum. cheltenham-battlefield-crosses.org
07.08.2025 08:51 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Birches in the snow, finished yesterday. Acrylics with gold and copper leaf on canvas, 12" x 12".
05.08.2025 06:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photographer taking picture of no photography sign.
Christie photographing Mapham photographing a no photography sign! #OTD 13 July 1944.
No secret that Iโm a big fan of Jimmy Maphamโs work, his 13/18 Hussar pics started off the whole markings obsession, so hereโs to you Jim!
IWM B 7058 #SWW #History #WW2
โHe maintains that there are no original stories; folk tales too are excavations, shafts going down into the past.โ
Adam Mars-Jones on Alan Garner:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
Never change, England
11.07.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 3625 ๐ 828 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 61My painting of the trenches at Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park, the Somme.
12.07.2025 12:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster.
Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."
It's striking that the one person who's taken no political damage from Brexit is the person who did most to bring it about.
That's partly because Lab remains afraid to talk honestly about the impact of Brexit.
So long as that continues,they'll take the heat for the consequences of Farage's project
SUPER excited to announce that we will be taking #EagleDays to the USA this summer! Honoured to be speaking on the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain at EAA's AirVenture Oshkosh 2025, as well as talks & signings at
Barnes & Noble in Schaumburg, IL and Marian University.
See you there! โ๏ธ #OSH25
My controversial position is that kidnapping is bad
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/ice...
Still hoping for the day. Id frame mine.
01.07.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 4644 ๐ 407 ๐ฌ 212 ๐ 31My painting of Beaumont Hamel British Cemetery on the Somme, France. A very emotive place. Acrylics on canvas paper.
29.06.2025 09:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nick Cave - summoning the dead before going onstage
29.06.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My new painting, Morning Mist, acrylics on canvas, 20" x 28".
29.06.2025 08:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My painting of Gordon Dump Military Cemetery on the Somme, completed a few years ago. Acrylics on canvas paper.
29.06.2025 08:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve seen ballets that were less well choreographed than Iranโs flight of missiles which the Qataris, the Americans and British were warned about in advance โ in case any crockery might get broken โ and Pres Trump could then celebrate in caps on social media.
23.06.2025 20:28 โ ๐ 115 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 0The only way to truly make Brexit work...
...is to bury it six feet under and join the EU as full members again. That way Brexit can fulfil its true function as a blip in history that serves as an important cautionary tale.
Brexit wonโt be done until itโs undone.
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๐ฅ Superb article
De Montfort was meant to be an โanchor institutionโ and โcivic universityโ working for the โbenefit of local people and the prosperity of our placesโ.
But its executives have raided it and in 2-3 years claimed ยฃ278K in their own luxury expenses.
Brexit was about taking back control for many peopleโฆ
โฆnow James Newell argues that the new UK/EU agreement enhances our sovereignty
What a treat! Sleep be damned!
29.05.2025 12:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Spectacular, evocative sculptures.
29.05.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How decades of neglect deepened the decline of our former coalfields ๐
Thatcher may have closed the mines, but the governments that followed also had a hand in the decline of former coalfield areas.
I'm looking forward to my visit there in June.
29.05.2025 08:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesnโt get.
Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual โ despair deepens across the UK.
Given up growing hostas. Ours are decimated by slugs.
28.05.2025 09:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0On the right, a blue and white plate filled with cherries. On the left in the backgroud, a blue and white bowl filled with strawberries and in the foreground, a plate of gooseberries.
Summer is coming.
Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries, and Gooseberries, Louise Moilon, 1630.
And what a gorgeous plate!
#foodsky #skystorian