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Artist | Urban Gardener 📍Philadelphia www.samanthalsanders.com 🌸👩🏻🌾🪴🐈
#Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton was released 29 years ago today.
10.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 78 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 8
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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Charli XCX gives a shoutout to fellow artists releasing their films this Summer during her Coachella set:
▪️Daren Aronofsky — ‘Caught Stealing’ starring Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith.
▪️Celine Song — ‘Materialists’ starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal.
Spring studio update— 🐛🌿🌼
11.04.2025 18:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the mid-1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell did something that no one like her had ever done: She became the first British woman to produce a fully illustrated herbal — a kind of encyclopedic botanical reference guide — for commercial sale.
07.04.2025 15:42 — 👍 52 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
“20 Years of Data Shows That Butterfly Populations Are Severely Declining Across the USA” A butterfly, called a ruddy copper after its orange wings, resting on a plant.
For every 5 butterflies seen 20 years ago, now there are only 4. While a few species have actually increased, many more have declined—some dramatically. Of 554 species, 107 declined by over 50%.
Even still, providing habitat & reducing pesticides can change things!
Learn more🔗 xerces.org/press
‘FLOW’ wins Best Animated Feature at the #Oscars.
03.03.2025 00:44 — 👍 80 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 9
Sunday studio 🌞🐈⬛
23.02.2025 14:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌸🦋“Growing Flowers and Butterflies” 🌸🦋
2025
photo transfer, collage, and black walnut ink on paper mounted on panel
8.5 inches x 6.5 inches
Just watched Flow (available on Max) and it’s SO GOOD— give ‘em the Oscar 🐱🤍
16.02.2025 03:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was told many times over in grad school that painting flowers or garden imagery “wasn’t contemporary.” And here I am now, still doing just that. My new series, “To Grow Something Good,” is big, bold, and vibrant— these paintings take up SPACE. I’m not interested in feeling small. 😤
12.02.2025 21:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“An Awakening” 2024, black walnut ink on paper, 20 inches x 16 inches
“Pumpkin Blossoms” 2025, goldenrod flower ink and gouache on paper, 20 inches x 16 inches
#worksonpaper #contemporaryart #painting #garden
Tom Howse, House Warming Party, 2023, Acrylic on canvas
27 3/5 × 21 7/10 × 1 1/5 in | 70 × 55 × 3 cm #art #modernart #modernartist #artist #loveart #newartist #painting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #realism #surrealism #dark #mood
Dahlia sketchbook page.
#dahlias #collage #sketchbook
Fantastic work by my friend Claire Whitehurst. Go see her solo show at the Schuylkill Environmental Center. 🤍🍥💫
01.02.2025 23:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Ventricle/The Lanternfly”, 2023
Wire, epoxy, acrylic paint, pumice, faux flowers, spray paint, dyed polyester fringe
✨Friday Studio Inspo✨ I accidentally grew pumpkins last spring/summer (thanks squirrels!). I was unaware of how magnificent and fleeting a pumpkin blossom is. They only look this glorious for about half a day. #gardening #urbangardening
31.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sing Sing is available digitally today at last — no I don't know why it's taken so long either, but so many people can now finally see this tender, beautiful film that deserved even more Oscar nominations than it got tickets.singsing.movie
31.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 5Thinking about the swallowtail butterflies I raised over the summer. A small act of resilience. 🤍🦋
#supportpollinators
“Western Monarch Butterfly Population Declines to Near Record Low” Two monarch butterflies resting on a tree branch with dried leaves.
With only 9,119 overwintering butterflies, this is the 2nd lowest year ever recorded since the Western Monarch Count started in 1997. Numbers had increased slightly after the 2020 all-time-low, so this year's sharp drop is troubling.
Learn more & get involved 🦋 xerces.org/press/wester...
Drawing on the floor— it brings me a sense of comfort and safety. It’s childlike, ya know? Doing my best to find peace and calm in the studio, however I can. #drawing #pumpkinblossoms
29.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sun-kissed studio assistants 🐈🤍🐈⬛
28.01.2025 14:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few of my more recent black walnut ink paintings. 🌰🌰🌰 #painting #blackwalnutink #worksonpaper
27.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Putting in a request for that strawberry sniffing rat!
26.01.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three books I’m loving right now.
25.01.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✨Friday Studio Inspo✨ A garden boutique I made last October, containing dahlias, cherry tomato vines, and mojito mint. 🌸🌼🌸
Obsessed with the color chartreuse right now.
Dahlia painting in progress— it feels good to be oil painting again 😮💨
24.01.2025 03:42 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
