@jonpountney1.bsky.social
ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE!
You're more than welcome!
05.12.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This looks like it may right up my street, in fact I used to live on the street that the gallery is.
My two fav creative sheddies in my adoptive hometown - showing off their shed related work…. hope I get an invitation to the opening night!
In Porthcawl last week
05.12.2025 16:25 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Text: Sir, In 1983, a puzzled academic examining the shelves at the South Wales Miners’ Library in Swansea asked why they held so many volumes of classic literature. Thirty years later, Hywel Francis and Sian Williams, writing the history of the library, used the academic’s question as their book’s title, Do Miners Read Dickens? As 2025 draws to an end, Libby Purves warns us that the ignorance and snobbery evidenced in 1983 is at least as widespread now as it was then (“Decline in history of art widens class divide”, Dec 1). She warns of the dangers when contemporary politicians of the right and left “spread the myth of high culture as elitist”. Chief among those dangers is a toxic widening of class division and with it a dampening of aspiration when the country needs urgently to mobilise all of its diverse talents and potential if it is to prosper in an increasingly competitive world. Dr Kim Howells Former MP, Pontypridd
Letter in Times today
03.12.2025 12:13 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0My story! Did anyone read it to find out the Captain's secret?
01.12.2025 22:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
01.12.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sheds.
Engine sheds. Potting sheds. Garden sheds. Wood sheds. Bike sheds. Boat sheds.
Another date for your diary- an exhibition at Turner House Penarth with Lee John Phillips about our shared love of sheds; open Jan the 15th; evening reception on the 16th.
More details soon!
Trebanog last weekend
01.12.2025 13:54 — 👍 52 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday, a chance for me to take an image I've had in mind for months- Matthew and Michael in homage to Richard and Dic Bach
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Miner Probing a Drill Hole http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sutherland-miner-probing-a-drill-hole-n05741
01.12.2025 08:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Painting by Stefan Bleekrode ‘December Light’ 2010.
Watercolour on paper. Size 55 x 75 cm.
The other night in Gilfach Goch/Evanstown
24.11.2025 18:59 — 👍 67 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0I should say; Fochriw
19.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Yesterday, a chance for me to take an image I've had in mind for months- Matthew and Michael in homage to Richard and Dic Bach
An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
No way!
27.11.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The other night in Gilfach Goch/Evanstown
24.11.2025 18:59 — 👍 67 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0Avoid like the plague!
24.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To get a chance to win, donate to the Just Giving page. Each entry costs £5 and you can enter as many times as you like! Add a note to your entry informing Ani of which artwork’s raffle (or raffles!) you would like to be entered into www.justgiving.com/page/ani-sau...
23.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So you get the LP on vinyl and a unique artwork by me in one; I've painted over the sleeve in oils to create this homage to a Paul Nash painting called Flight of the Magnolia. Plus you get an archival quality print of the image here, and I've signed the label on the disc.
23.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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WIN A UNIQUE ARTWORK BY ME, WITH PROCEEDS TO CHARITY
Really nice to be asked by @aniglass.bsky.social to create something new from the artwork of her album Phantasmagoria (which features my photography) for the charity National Deaf Children's Society @ndcs-uk.bsky.social
Stumbled onto Threads by mistake through Instagram, and see yet more middle aged, white male photographers are telling everyone what to think about photography. It's so boring. It's one of the reasons I try and have nothing to do with 'photography'
17.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 39 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 0
Some recent drawings- Paul Nash and Georgia O'Keeffe
20.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I should say; Fochriw
19.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
High Plains Drifter in old South Wales
19.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 40 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1Thanks for coming Joanna!
19.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tonight!
19.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
At midsummer, the witches of Zennor would light fires on top of the ancient burial chambers and in the rock stacks, until it seemed like the whole moor was ablaze. Zennor Quoit for #TombTuesday!
18.11.2025 08:06 — 👍 100 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0Fab!
17.11.2025 23:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm doing an online talk about this project (and exhibition) this coming Wednesday night if you want to come along! www.inaland.uk/workshops/p/...
17.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
I did a little drawing of Stanley Spencer. Not sure why
14.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
