Looks a bit like Winchelsea

Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

What a great bank holiday read.
#BookSky #ThePretender

Robby Müller poses for a selfie in a bathroom mirror. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and a white button-up shirt, holding a vintage camera in his right hand. The background features a bathroom sink and patterned walls.

Remembering the beloved cinematographer Robby Müller (BOTD in 1940) who forever altered the landscape of cinematography and created some of cinema’s most enduring images, transforming the everyday into the extraordinary from the back roads of Germany to the expanse of the American Southwest. ❤️

Love this one

Lovely to see them back!

📷 The first night of spring

David Gentleman's artwork for Charing Cross tube station

David Gentleman, who is COOL, is 96 today.

And Diego too

I was given this ‘cut out and dress’ Frida book many years ago. I can't believe I've resisted the temptation to cut her out and play with her #FridaKahlo #BlueSkyArt

River of the Month - The River Ouse (Sussex) - River Action: River Rescue Kit Welcome to River of the Month! Every month, we spotlight [...]

February’s River of the Month: The River Ouse (Sussex)! 💙🌿

Dive into our latest blog, written by Matthew Bird from Love Our Ouse, to explore the story of the Ouse, the threats it faces, and how you can get involved with protecting this precious Sussex river. 👉 bit.ly/4tGQeF6

#LoveOurOuse

The interior stairwell at Clickimin Iron Age Broch on the outskirts of Lerwick in Shetland. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Shetland

Remembering Tim Buckley on his birthday. Here he is playing Song to the Siren on the final episode of The Monkees TV show in 1968, two years before he released a very different version on his Starsailor LP

Craftland - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds Academic and broadcaster James Fox explores Britain's lost arts and vanishing trades.

A quiet, beautiful listen for troubled times
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Mongolia Olympic Team opening ceremony uniform by Goyol: slogan “What we carried through winter, we carry to the world”

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

Also preparing something very yellow, for @roundtable92ny.bsky.social
##colorhistory #colourhistory #sunflowers

It's fabulous

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

English artist and sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth was born #OnThisDay in 1903. Paul Laib photographed a chic Hepworth in the Mall Studio, London, in 1933, wearing a breton top, calf-length skirt and beret. © The De Laszlo Collection of Paul Laib Negatives, The Courtauld. #womensart

My love of Paul Hogarth illustrations has become a bit of a collecting obsession. My teenage copies of Shakespeare and Graham Greene, and a few William Golding, have found their way back to me, many with my name still written inside. The big books are particularly lovely.
#BookSky #PaulHogarth

I read it last week. It's so beautiful.

Simplified & stylized graphical image of a reindeer in a landscape, with a celestial orb above

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

The Solstice Sunrise from Sussex.

Every winter the Dutch hope for freezing temps so we can skate again!

On this painting by Hendrick Avercamp people are playing 'kolf' – basically 17th-century ice hockey. On the left some have fallen through the ice and in the middle a woman takes a tumble, flashing more than she planned. 😅

The best

A Christmas tree with white fairy lights on a pebble beach. There is a strip of dark blue sea behind it and a darkening soft pink orange and blue sky in the background.

‘‘Tis the year's midnight …’
St Lucy’s Day, Aldeburgh.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 📷 #photography

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

RIP #MartinParr x

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to
gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂