Nick Tankard

A black and white photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from below. The bridge runs diagonally from the top left to the bottom right of the photograph, fog drifts across the central span of the bridge. A man (me) looks a bit puzzled at the bottom of the photograph, a bit like a caveman confronted by the future.

Me being all Vertigo-ish, San Francisco. A long time ago.

A photograph of the steps of the interior of City Hall, San Francisco. A grand staircase, marble floor, lamps and ornate ceiling/walls.

A photograph of Coit Tower and the houses leading up to it in San Francisco. Yellow painted road crossing, telegraph wires and poles, a street sign reads JONES. Cars clinging to near vertical roads, clear blue sky.

San Francisco 2013. The staircase from the end of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and outside James Stewart’s apartment in ‘Vertigo’. I’m a film geek.

A photograph of a row of prison cells two deep. Two people walk into shot but they are in blurred motion apart from their two front feet giving an impression of spooky boots.

Ghost boots of Alcatraz, San Francisco, 2013.

Serge de Vries (Dutch, b.1968)
"Morning Chair" 2022

A photograph of a framed original illustration from Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

A photograph of the framed original artwork for the cover of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

A photograph of the interior of Philadelphia train station. A huge bronze statue on a black granite base. The back of a winged figure. Travelers walk purposefully through an Art Deco style concourse with tall windows and a coffered ceiling painted gold, red and green. Long cylindrical lamps hand from the ceiling.

A photograph of the sunset behind industrial structures of metal and train track wires.

Original artwork from Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak at the Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, 2014.
One of the most amazing exhibitions I’ve ever been to. I still can’t believe I saw these illustrations with my own eyes 🤩

A man selling brightly coloured and patterned rolls of fabric stands among his stock, a lady with a head scarf checks her purse.

The ceiling and lights of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. Calligraphy on one of the eight medallions.

A man stares from the window of a train bound for Kapikule. Red and blue stripes run along the side of the cream carriage.

Istanbul, 2009.

A photograph of the mouth of a tunnel underneath a snow covered hillside populated by colourful snow topped wooden houses. A snowy road disappears into the tunnel, orange lights inside the tunnel glow on the road making it look like the entrance to a furnace in contrast with the icy blue and white outside. A clear blue sky above.

Tromsø, Norway, 2012.

A mountain shaped like a bird of prey rising from a flat and grassy landscape near Vik in Iceland.

A Dublin pub with brightly coloured windows and a rare Guinness sign suspended above it, a bicycle chained up outside.

A late afternoon view of San Francisco. The sun dipping below buildings on the horizon, cars parked at a jaunty angle on the street, a girl leans against the wall of a house.

Children playing games in the late afternoon sunshine on the streets of Venice, graffiti on the shutters of a shop behind them.

Iceland, Dublin, San Francisco and Venice, 2010-2014.

A photograph of a white wooden church with a red roof and spire at the foot of a gravel track. The church stands on a hill overlooking a small town of white buildings with tin roofs. A range of mountains in the distance leads towards the sea and a string of jagged rocks jutting upwards on the horizon.

Vik, Iceland, 2014.

Perhaps there won’t be much call for illustrators in an irradiated wasteland anyway 🤷‍♀️

Watercolor painting of a circular beach turret by the waves. We see a stormy sky in the background

The circular beach turret in Whitby before the storm

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #Whitby #yorkshire #art

Well this is a fucking disaster, especially for book publishing.

Note: these are the very same companies that publishers are in conversations with, developing projects and selling content to (won't need to worry when they can legally steal it).

David Hockney, Garrowby Hill, 1998.

YouTube video by Netflix Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards

Damn Harrison Ford should get an Actors Award for Best Actors Award speech

Aww, man. Well deserved. You feel the love from everyone in the room.
Love you, Harrison!

Very wise. Continental breakfast is a minefield.

I’ve contemplated asking for a ‘buttery breakfast bread’ just to get out of saying it 🫤

I’ll try to post some more Woman in Black original artwork this week & reply to those lovely people who have expressed an interest in what I’ve posted so far.
My partner & I are snowed under trying to report the online theft of her artwork so I might not be around much.
Bye for now, keep fighting 👊🏻

YouTube video by jeyem archives Cocteau Twins 1994 05 28 Live @ Later With Jools

Something beautiful.

youtu.be/pcpNzwgs0X4

How do we respond to a world bent on war?
With beauty. By creating and offering our creation as an alternative. To announce: There is another way! We do not have to believe in borders & boundaries that are imaginary, but in the bond that we all are each others responsibility.

😉👊🏻

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Moss Garden (2017 Remaster)

David Bowie - Moss Garden

youtu.be/HaZ0hwd_cCQ

Etsy do their best to take these listings down when asked but some people are shameless and just re-list it the next day. I can’t quite get my head around it all. My poor partner hasn’t stopped this week, as if she isn’t busy enough trying to make a living out of it as it is.

Thank you, Jessica x

a shirtless man with a beard is standing in front of a mountain and asking who ? me ? Alt: A sexy middle aged man (beer belly out of shot) looks over his shoulder and asks “who? me?” Majestic mountains in the background.

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Bloody brilliant work Jason! 👊🏻

I’m sort of flabbergasted. The absolutely disgusting outright theft of it all “oh, I’ll have that and put it on Etsy/Amazon/Temu” just sickening. To answer with these utterly clueless responses makes it even worse.

“Winter Sunday” artist’s proof prints - 8 numbered proofs available from the sold out edition. aronwiesenfeldshop.com/products/win...

And another reply from another Etsy thief/seller…”I’m sorry I didn’t know it was your artwork, I’ll try not to next time” Well, whose artwork did you think it was? and why did you think you could use/steal it whoever it belonged to?

These people are pissing me right off, absolutely infuriating.

My partner sent a direct message to an Etsy seller who’d stolen her work and was seeking to profit from it. My partner asked her to desist or legal action would be taken.

The person said “oh I’m sorry, I didn’t know that”…you didn’t know what? That you’re not allowed to steal? Some feckin people.

I’ll try to post some more Woman in Black original artwork this week & reply to those lovely people who have expressed an interest in what I’ve posted so far.
My partner & I are snowed under trying to report the online theft of her artwork so I might not be around much.
Bye for now, keep fighting 👊🏻