Suzanne Fagence Cooper

A photo I took of a dense patch of snowdrops against a dark fence, with rays of sunlight shining down on them and sunlight illuminating their petals from behind.

A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Cones, sycamore keys, dried berries, acorns & their caps, seedheads & lichen twigs arranged on a white background. Hidden in the photo is a tiny deer stag for you to find.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

In an early 20th-century watercolor-painting postcard, a smiling women dressed in the style of the 1820s carries a roast turkey on a platter to a table filled with dishes of food for a Thanksgiving feast.

Jane Austen wrote about thankfulness in a prayer she composed: "Give us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference." I'm so grateful for the community on this site. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.

My talk in Cambridge tomorrow is SOLD OUT! But there are still tickets available for our events in Winchester on 3rd/ 4th Dec - talk & tours - on the Morris family & 'Beauty of the Earth'
www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

It was years ago.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not in a hurtful way.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not with intent.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not genuine abuse.

😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

Unfinished picture, with orange/gold underpainting. Face, neck, dark hair and folded hands of Jane Morris are complete.

Paying my respects to Jane Morris in Birmingham, on my way to give a talk for @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
This unfinished portrait by D G Rossetti emphasises the beauty & queenliness of Jane's looks.

It was intended to illustrate Dante's 'La Donna della Finestra'.

Sending you peace and kindliness - & St Anne quietly teaching Mary to read

(My favourite Burne-Jones stained glass design)

Are you coming to our lecture this Saturday, 1pm in Birmingham, with the wonderful @suzannefagence.bsky.social?

To book and for more details see the events page on our website- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump…

Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.

Exhibition gallery, with case of photographs and manuscripts, with embroidered wall hanging on the far wall. And elaborate wallpaper of fruit trees by House of Hackney. Quotation from William Morris on a red wall : 'Learn to love the narrow spot that surrounds our daily life'.

Looking for something to do on a drizzly day in #Hampshire?
'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester.
Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.

The banners are up and the loans are starting to arrive for our exhibition 'Beauty of the Earth : the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' in Winchester.

It opens on Sat 15th November.

You can pre-book tickets for the exhibition and events here : www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

A painting of diagonal slashes and crosses of various kinds all filling the white page in red paint of varying intensity. In tiny scratching handwriting the words 30 million dead July 76 M Bishop The Somme

30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

as a side note, a lot of food banks in the U.K.- I dunno about the USA- won’t accept or give out formula (despite the govt publishing explicit guidance that legally they can do so).

Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.

A red squirrel is pictured burying a nut at the foot of a beech tree while nearby we see a hen blackbird - and a jay flying overhead

“Among the fallen beech leaves”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

A collection of berries from hedgerows in the East of England arranged to create a colour gradation on a chipped black enamel background, with handwritten labels marking each species

Berry palette, November.
As ever zoom in to the details if anxiety's lurking - looking at botanical patterns helps us recover from stress 60% more quickly.
Also the pink Rowan & spindle...I mean...Barbie berries🍒💅🩷

'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.

They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.

A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.

The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.

Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain Britain is one of the least “nature connected” nations in the world, according to the first ever global study of how people relate to the natural world. Britain ranks 55th out of 61 countries in the study of 57,000 people, which looks at how attitudes towards nature are shaped by social, economic, geographical and cultural factors. Continue reading...

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Print in black and white featuring a bat hanging upside-down above a spider on a web

#Printmaker Gertrude Hermes,
Bat and Spider, wood engraving, 1932 #womensart

#Halloween 🎃 🕸 🦇

A collection of Victorian ink bottles all on sale in my Etsy shop as part of my mental health kits, arranged to make a colour gradation on a cream linen background

The cover design of the booklet I've written that is part of my mental health kits

Dried flower posies that are part of my Victorian ink bottle mental health kits

A tiny spring posy in shades of blue & mauve in a cobalt blue Victorian ink bottle

My Etsy shop's now open for just over 20 of my Victorian ink bottle mental health kits
Kits incl booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health,dried flower posy & a handprinted giftbox
Dispatches in time for🌲I ship anywhere:
www.etsy.com/shop/silverp...

We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Frederick Cayley Robinson's painting for the Middlesex Hospital in 1912 depicts young orphaned girls around a refectory table, a motif of Leonardo's Last Supper, to the left girls process down a staircase, a device borrowed from Sir Edward Burne-Jones' 'The Golden Stairs.'

A man holding up a Kapital bandana.

A construction worker wearing a bandana.

If you live in a major city, you may have noticed more people wearing bandanas around their neck, as the accessory has made a small comeback. Typically made from cotton, the bandana — distinct from the ascot — has a long history in working class aesthetics, as it serves a practical function.