@asummerghost.bsky.social
Escapism in art & photography (some mine), inspired by nature, nostalgia, literature, music & the ordinary. Deep rivers run quiet. © Haruki Murakami. Art ⬆️ Starry Night © Vincent Van Gogh.
restlessness
is the spirit turning
toward a new phase
Natalia Drepina
Midnight Owl.
#Art
© Amanda Clark
Ferdinand, wide-eyed and reverent, bows before Miranda, garbed in flowing gowns like a river of light, as spectral wings and shadowy boughs weave Shakespeare’s Tempest into Walter Crane’s haunting dream - with Prospero plotting in the shadows, of course.
“No wonder, sir;
But certainly a maid.”
(“The Tempest” 2.1)
🎨 Walter Crane
#goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #shakespearesunday
Morning!
We’re sticking with the 80’s for #feelgoodfeb 🥳 & here’s a classic from 1981 from The Rolling Stones - ‘Start Me Up’ youtu.be/SGyOaCXr8Lw
Such a great tune & the video never fails to make me smile 🤣
Volume up & enjoy!
Have a fabulous day 🎶😁
😆
08.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Punting At Cambridge.
#Art
© Kate Heiss
#Quote
© James Joyce
Owl.
Embroidered Panel
#Art
© William Morris
🫶
08.02.2026 05:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seen...
#Photography #Wildlife #OMSystem #Owl #Nature #Birds #Birding #Saturday
Just finished this one, acrylic on canvas board. Small about 4" x 4". Intuition.
07.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Unichi Hiratsuka
Mt. Fuji in Spring (1950)
07.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Enter The Woods With Care.
#Art
© Jackie Morris
"A cloaked figure, hunched in sorrow, holds a goblet as a robed child clings to them; beyond the arched balcony, a garden blooms in stark contrast to the shadowed lane where poverty lingers—a poignant illustration of Oscar Wilde’s 'The Happy Prince' by Charles Robinson."
“So the Swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates.”
(Oscar Wilde “The Happy Prince”)
🎨 Charles Robinson
#goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky
Hidden Meadow.
#Art
© Clair Bremner
Geese.
#Art
© Sandra Vick
Thanks so much Hakan 🫶🎨🤗 Have a lovely day ❤️
07.02.2026 05:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gary Oldman as Dracula.
1992
© Herb Ritts
Spring Bird.
#Art
© Seiho Takeuchi
Shades of Blue.
#Art
© Claude Monet
Don't tell them too much about your soul.
They're waiting for just that.
🖊️ Jack Kerouac
@artandpoetry.bsky.social
❤️ 💋
#quote
05.02.2026 06:56 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Whippet on Pink.
Oil on Canvas
#Art
© Lisa House
Painted Wood.
© Ian Wade
There is nothing you can see
that is not a flower;
There is nothing you can think
that is not the moon.
~Basho Matsuo
Hoitsu Sakai
Highland Croft.
#Art
© Emma S Davis
February.
#Art
© Olga Vorobiova
Harry Rountree’s prehistoric spectacle for The Lost World: A towering iguanodon, its massive form looming like a living mountain, is herded through the misty jungle by the indigenous inhabitants of Conan Doyle’s “Lost World”. The beast’s scaly hide and clawed feet are a stark contrast to the fragile human figures, their spears and torches mere sparks against the ancient might of a world long forgotten. Conan Doyle’s adventure made flesh—a moment where time itself seems to tremble.
“Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.”
(Arthur Conan Doyle “The Lost World”)
🎨 Harry Rountree (1912)
#wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky
Wishing you a peaceful day...
03.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 42 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
