Photo of a blue and white patterned ceramic teapot partly in tbe shape of an octopus, head for the handle and tentacles near the spout at the left, placed on a wooden surface

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

Pictorial embroidery featuring a landscape with frost covered large bare winter tree in a snowy field with a sheep sheltering under it

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #womensart #snow #winter

Abstract painting with abstract shapes, curves and lines covering the picture plane in orange cream pink red and brown

Lee Krasner (b. 1908; d. 1984) US painter, pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement of New York in the mid 20thC #WomensArt

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.

The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.

Jump back into it.

Painting of the upper half of two entwined figures facing forwards, one above the other with àrma around the other, both wear white vest tops, all against a white background

Sungi Mlengeya, Tanzanian self-taught artist who creates minimalistic portrait paintings #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of a white foal with dark nose, eyes, mane and ears, facing directly forwards, against a white background

Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt

Photo of a street at night looking up between two rows of golden buildings with balconies, to a strip of colourful crocheted circles joined together under a deep blue night sky

Crochet mandala street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
(via Howtofeelgood. net)

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Cour photo of a sculpture in a grassy field under a blue sky, the sculpture of a figure facing right is created by smal pieces of rusted orange metal welded together giving tbe impression of energy as the back of the figure appears to be blown outwards

'You Blew Me Away 8' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from upcycled scrap metal, to create a piece which signifies renewed life and energy #womensart

Print in monochrome of a close-up of a crouching hissing angry looking cat with curled tail and mouth open showing sharp teeth

Scottish wood-engraver and illustrator, Agnes Miller Parker, The Challenge, 1934 #WomensArt

Painting with a stylised large group of figures, reflecting ideas of their movement while ice skating on an outdoor white icy surface

Skating in the Bois de Boulogne, 1913 by Swiss artist Alice Bailly #womensart

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Louise Stebbing, contemporary Norfolk based (UK) printmaker working mostly in lino printing & etching #WomensArt

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Something to remember

A black cat lays back in a large basket, his little face squished against the edge, eyes large and fangies poking out.

relaxing after a hard day (he was left home ALONE, very sad)

Painting of a view of the roofs of a townscape with many houses under a dark blue sky filled with puffy grey clouds, birds and round moon

Through the windows, 2021 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

Photo of a circular shaped ceramic vase with overlapping circular design created in black and white with dots, alll on a white surface.

Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart

Artwork featuring a stylused landscape of white trees and frosty grasses with a central white Stag under a rising or setting large orange sun in a pink sky

'The Eternal Sun' by contemporary artist Catherine Hyde #WomensArt

Photo of a white plate with design in blue featuring a stylused cat to the right sitting watching three flying birds to the left with a flowering plant between them and the text 'bird watching' in joined up writing underneath, the plate is on a white surface.

'Bird Watching' plate by UK based artist Vicky Lindo, known for her quirky, highly decorated ceramics #WomensArt

Painting of a simplified, stylised sunrise with an oval deep blue to light blue sky, white blurred sun rising on a blue horizon

Georgia O’Keeffe,
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt

What’s your vibe for 2025?

Some of mine:
- Soft and slow
- Gentle and forgiving
- Feral and shrieking

Painting featuring a stylised landscape of trees in front of a blue sky and sun with exaggerated angular and curved lines and bold blacks of colour.

Dutch avant-garde artist Jacoba Heemskerck van Beest, Komposition, 1912 #womensart

I’m listening to Orbital right now. You are an incredible story teller. I can’t wait to listen to more of your work!

So so cute!

Booter!