Caroline

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance Czesław Miłosz wrote, “Language is the only homeland.” I didn’t understand that sentence when I first read it. I was too busy trying to speak correctly—in English, in Croatian, in a blend that neve…

This says so much.

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Panel One: A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room. A voice offstage says "You can't survive on books alone" The woman replies "Maybe I can!" Panel Two: "How?" asks the voice "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman Panel Three: Caption: However The book is filled with yet more books. A skull sits on the chair. It says "I regret nothing!"

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Artwork featuring twelve stylised white female figures with dark hair, in a group floating and swiming in blue water

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Artwork featuring twelve squares each containing embroidered images of plants, flowers and trees in various vivid colours

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

I lol’d so loud I scared the dogs !!!

Traditionally #Beltane, an ancient celebration at the start of May, began when the Hawthorn, the May, blossomed and was associated with fertility. "May Blossom" by painter Alice Robertson #WomensArt #May1st

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

Photograph featuring the upper half of a standing Black woman, to the left, looking outwards with head raised proudly, to the right is her self-portrait, upoer half looking left, on a cream wall

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."
- Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) US artist #womensart

WTAF people ?!!

Poppy blossom on a stem with feathered leaves in white on a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart

These are gorgeous !!

Embroidery featuring a sitting fox facing forwards and looking up to the left with bushy tail on the ground to the right, all on a cream background

Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart

Love everything about this!

'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart

Making my list…

A small glass plate filled with cheese, crackers, grapes, apple slice & a small bowl with yogurt & dried fruit & nuts

Remembering to eat is a Good Thing…

Painted scene in dots and dashes of a group of three african women to the right foreground carrying baskets and one woman to the right distance carrying a basket all in long clothing

Business women, 2023
By Betty Acquah, one of Ghana's new generation of painters #WomensArt #Monday

Such beauty!

She and the wardrobe dept leave no crumbs

We’re really enjoying this show. ESPECIALLY Lorna.

Wow. Just wow.

yes, I will embrace this advice

Been catching up on all the inside house stuff that got put off while holiday prep & recovery took over. At this rate “spring cleaning” will be easy!

Wow. Just wow. 😮

Though now I have the image of the boys stuck in a civic racing around in my head 😂

That looks *amazing*

I like the second… it seems to have a more gardeny vibe to me

Four panel collage of a work in progress - a bright purple, pink, blue and gold patchwork quilt top. Traditional pattern called ‘trip around the world.’

Snow, snow & more snow so time to bust my stash… #quilt2025

Solstice fire 🔥 to light the longest night…

A white triangular mug with a flap handle, decorated with a stylized mosaic lizard in browns & blues. “Barcelona” is inscribed on the handle.

Good morning! Double espresso in the mug my sweetie brought me back from Barcelona…

No one can really know what the future holds, and literature & film reflect our fears - hopeful, cooperative, humans-doing-better stories are in woefully short supply.