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Kristian Purcell

@kristianpurcell.bsky.social

Artist working between the historical & personal. Illustrator of ‘Doom Towns, a Graphic History of Atomic Testing’. Teacher of Art. He/him. www.kristianpurcell.com Insta: @kristianpurcell

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I don’t do crypto. Thank you.

09.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you! Yes, there’s small bits for sale on kristianpurcellart.etsy.com and larger work is pictured on kristianpurcell.com

09.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Another Timbre Independent CD label for free improvisation, experimental and contemporary classical music.

One of my favourite record labels, www.anothertimbre.com has had a gorgeous website redesign and to celebrate they have a 5-CDs-for-£25 special offer. If you’re into modern composition and minimalism there is no finer label.

09.08.2025 09:48 — 👍 54    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 3
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My etsy shop is making a come back, as well as a number of drawings, I’ve just added this oil on paper study of Gloria Graham, from In a Lonely Place. #noir #filmnoir #painting

kristianpurcellart.etsy.com/listing/1448...

09.08.2025 10:24 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A scarier boat journey than Three Miles Up.

08.08.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brave is one word for it! there’s some big money and squads up that end.

8-12th is a good aim for this year, that middle section was so tight last year (5th:69 - 12th:58) a few points will decide it.

07.08.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is this to out do Ed Dawes prediction on the podcast that we finish 3rd! 😂

07.08.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Work in progress- a new #drawing on the easel.

07.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great thread! Fascinating stuff.

07.08.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Now its a Merchant Ivory Twin Peaks

04.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

30 mins in its the surprising midpoint between Aguirre Wrath of God and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie via Isadora Duncan dancing on the acropolis

04.08.2025 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Now watching: Picnic at Hanging Rock #filmsky

04.08.2025 20:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great picture

04.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A painting of a woman in a white dress, propped up against a wall

A painting of a woman in a white dress, propped up against a wall

A bit of work in progress, from a picture of Margot Fonteyn, long way to go yet and lots of decisions to make. #wip #painting

04.08.2025 19:28 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a fascinating place, highly recommended.

02.08.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have you visited the @panaceamuseum.bsky.social ? The Panacea were followers of JS and there’s a replica box - and they also believed Bedford was the site if the Garden of Eden!

02.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Certainly looking like an approx starting 11 for Stoke. Ozoh, Ward, Weimman Osborn and CEA all played against Forest Green yesterday so getting close too.

02.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

30.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A wall with blueish pictures.

A wall with blueish pictures.

A lovely evening seeing my work up in London for the first time in a while. So many good pieces in this show at Green & Stone, on til 28 August.

30.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
The Times Spelling Bee would not allow me to play CTHULHU today. (The full roster of letters is TLAHCN, with U in the middle.) 

It wouldn't let me play another word today either, as long as we're here.

The Times Spelling Bee would not allow me to play CTHULHU today. (The full roster of letters is TLAHCN, with U in the middle.) It wouldn't let me play another word today either, as long as we're here.

🤷🏻‍♂️

29.07.2025 22:01 — 👍 113    🔁 3    💬 8    📌 2
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Started loose, now refining colours and surfaces

28.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m exhibiting this painting at Green & Stone this week. They have a ‘Gallery Choice Award’ where you can vote for any work, my piece is called In Dreams and any support would be gratefully reciprocated- just follow the link to vote

tinyurl.com/yk9v8t4u

28.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m exhibiting this painting at Green & Stone this week. They have a ‘Gallery Choice Award’ where you can vote for any work, my piece is called In Dreams and any support would be gratefully reciprocated- just follow the link to vote

tinyurl.com/yk9v8t4u

28.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Léon Spilliaert, Dike at night. Reflected lights, 1908, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Léon Spilliaert, Dike at night. Reflected lights, 1908, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

‘A top-hatted spectre’ strolls past Ostend’s neoclassical seafront colonnade in Spilliaert’s The Night, 1908

‘A top-hatted spectre’ strolls past Ostend’s neoclassical seafront colonnade in Spilliaert’s The Night, 1908

Self-Portrait with Masks, 1903

Self-Portrait with Masks, 1903

Reading my newly uncovered monograph on James Ensor has led me to fellow gloomy Oostender Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). Fond of a night walk, I love his eerie nocturnal depictions of the seafront off-season, all mysterious inky shadows...

27.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 71    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 1

You’ve encouraged me to have a deep dive into his work, I know a few bits but these are all new. Ta!

27.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely need a quality CDM, the midfield feels very makeshift at the moment, someone with real positional sense that can knit Goudmijn’s creativity and Ebou’s more destructive abilities.

27.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fair enough! More important.

22.07.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great work with the comms for this. Appreciate it.

22.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Same here! That never stops being hard!

16.07.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’ll smash it, I’m sure, with your amazing sense of design.

16.07.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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