Rose Wildsmith

If you make art (any art! Not just visual), no matter how big your audience or if you think you're "successful" or "enough", you are giving people the energy to get through another day.

You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.

Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!

Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) in woodland in East Lothian, Scotland, in January 2025

Dog's Mercury

The Mercury has risen!
It gives us all a vision
of days to come
Warming sun
Birds in song
Won’t be long
Just a few
more weeks of blue
But winds can blow
with sleet and snow
on any day
through to May
So let’s suggest
we make the best
of winter’s cold:
days of gold

#Wildflowerhour

Get more from Rose Wildsmith on Patreon creating Mixed Media Art

I finally set up a Patreon account! www.patreon.com/Rosewildsmith

Malwina De Brade artist. What a beautiful dog

Colour photograph featuring a wooded area in winter with a tree to the left foreground which has mostly bare branches and a few remaining golden brown leaves, the woods are misty blue, damp and atmospheric

Jo Stephen, contemporary UK photographer, ecologist and artist #WomensArt

Photo of a series of circles within circles created by pebbles on a beach in daylight which is partly covered by an incoming gentle wave coming in from the left

"Everything changes, nothing is lost" (2014)
by artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt #NewYear2025

A detailed graphite drawing of an Eurasian eagle owl in a sketchbook. Tools, including graphite pencils, blending stumps, brushes, and a kneaded eraser, are displayed beside it on a wooden surface.

This Eurasian eagle owl came to life through a graphite sketch that started in a coffee shop, then to a pharmacy, and home. A nice mix of tools for this one including some makeup brushes for the background. Known for their striking orange eyes, these owls inspire elegance and power. #birds

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Please don’t ever buy from TEMU. I have heard from several artists that their art has appeared on TEMU’s shop without permission. It’s outright theft. It may be cheap to buy from there but think about the impact it’s having on people and the planet. #temu #boycotttemu

These little watercolour palettes are the size of a Vaseline tin but fit 12 half pans. So small it fits in the palm of your hand! You can buy them on my website: www.rosewildsmith.net/shop/p/mini-...

Opening night for my group exhibition last night was great! Thanks to everyone who came along ✨
#art #amsterdam

They’re gorgeous 😍

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Between vulnerability and resilience group show poster.

My group show ‘Between vulnerability and resilience: coping with the tightrope’ is opening tomorrow evening at MINA gallery in Amsterdam. Everyone is welcome! The opening event is from 17:00- 20:00 ✨

White roses in an orange jar. There's a candle in the background and stems of mistletoe

It's the third day of our #ArtUKAdvent calendar 🌼

Some flowers to brighten your day!

'Christmas Roses' by James Valentine Jelley (1856–1950) 📷 Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Rainbow hat over Grand Canyon national Park 🌈🎩…
Captured at 300mm for compression.

#bluesky #photography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #rainbow

The plan was get another painting started this weekend, but we had new flooring to get down so it had to go on hold. I’ll start it tomorrow.

In the meantime here’s another one of my recent pieces, a little pen and watercolour mini illustrations

Hercules Beetle

#animalart #art #watercolour

A Herring Gull swoops
From a roof, and suddenly
The world is better

#HaikuSaturday

One of my favourite commissions of recent years. Oil on fine canvas. I love her direct stare and the sleepy cat. The whole pose feels familiar and comfortable.

Painting featuring a lying black cat facing right and looking outwards to the left behind three tall stemmed pink flowers protruding out of bulbs and a patchy black orange and white sitting cat to the right facing left in front of which are two more tall stemmed pink flowers, all on a cream background

Elizabeth Blackadder,
Amaryllis and Cats, 1987
Scottish artist

Tiger Moth - watercolor and ink
Part of my insect series

Prints: www.etsy.com/listing/1222...

#SciArt #mothart #insectart #traditionalart #entomology

We pass down our history through songs and stories, creating throughlines of memory that echo other complex systems that we find in nature

Also, hey there everyone 🖤

Photograph of a sitting fox shaped sculpture, facing centre right and looking left, in dark blue and covered with star constellations in whitexand purple, on a white surface against a black background

Fennec fox (dog star)
by Anne Lemanski

Good morning!☀️ Took this photo of the aurora borealis a few weeks ago. #KawarthaLakes #Ontario #Photography #auroraborealis

I’m not the owner of the list, that would be bsky.app/profile/dair...

Thanks for this. Wow, another Brexit nail in the coffin. I live in the EU but am British and just sending gifts to friends and family is nigh on impossible nowadays. It’s such a shame

Does this apply to companies based in the EU or only to products produced outside the EU and imported?

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