Jenny Iles

My painting of Pigeon Ravine Cemetery on the Somme. Acrylics on canvas paper, 42cm x 30cm.

My new painting, Aloe Plant. Acrylics on gold leaf, 40cms x 30cms.

Cheltenham Battlefield Crosses - Cheltenham’s unique museum of WWI battlefield crosses Build an impressive website with the best-rated top-seller WordPress theme

There'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

Birches in the snow, finished yesterday. Acrylics with gold and copper leaf on canvas, 12" x 12".

Photographer taking picture of no photography sign.

Christie photographing Mapham photographing a no photography sign! #OTD 13 July 1944.

No secret that I’m a big fan of Jimmy Mapham’s work, his 13/18 Hussar pics started off the whole markings obsession, so here’s to you Jim!

IWM B 7058 #SWW #History #WW2

Adam Mars-Jones · Selective Luddism: On Alan Garner Children’s books revisited in later life may disappoint, but they are immune to the embarrassment associated with...

‘He maintains that there are no original stories; folk tales too are excavations, shafts going down into the past.’

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

My painting of the trenches at Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park, the Somme.

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

Staff 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! ✈️ #OSH25

“Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later”: ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez In an effort to fulfill the Trump administration’s daily immigration arrest “quotas,” federal agents and deputized local law enforcement are racially profiling and snatching people off the streets wit...

My controversial position is that kidnapping is bad

www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/ice...

Still hoping for the day. Id frame mine.

My painting of Beaumont Hamel British Cemetery on the Somme, France. A very emotive place. Acrylics on canvas paper.

Nick Cave - summoning the dead before going onstage

My new painting, Morning Mist, acrylics on canvas, 20" x 28".

My painting of Gordon Dump Military Cemetery on the Somme, completed a few years ago. Acrylics on canvas paper.

I’ve seen ballets that were less well choreographed than Iran’s flight of missiles which the Qataris, the Americans and British were warned about in advance — in case any crockery might get broken — and Pres Trump could then celebrate in caps on social media.

The 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 won’t be done until it’s undone A long rambling walk along the highways and byways of politics today

Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone.

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De Montfort University: the betrayal of jet-setting executives Leicester's De Montfort University executives treat the university as an international business, with lavish expenses and financial speculation

🔥 Superb article

De Montfort was meant to be an “anchor institution” and “civic university” working for the “benefit of local people and the prosperity of our places”.

But its executives have raided it and in 2-3 years claimed £278K in their own luxury expenses.

Brexit supporters worried about sovereignty should be happy Brexit was about taking back control for many people, now James Newell argues that the new UK/EU agreement enhances our sovereignty

Brexit was about taking back control for many people…

…now James Newell argues that the new UK/EU agreement enhances our sovereignty

What a treat! Sleep be damned!

Spectacular, evocative sculptures.

How decades of neglect deepened the decline of our former coalfields Thatcher may have closed the mines, but the governments that followed also had a hand in the decline of former coalfield areas

How decades of neglect deepened the decline of our former coalfields 📉

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.

Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesn’t get Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual – despair deepens across the UK

Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesn’t get.

Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual – despair deepens across the UK.

Given up growing hostas. Ours are decimated by slugs.

On 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