A rare defeat for Putin in Western politics tonight. I suppose he can console himself with thoughts of Farage’s projected success next month.

A good time to read this excellent @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social piece on why an Orban loss would be (IS!) so important

Good time to re-up this 🎉

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

Chinless Nazi Care Bear....

Silvertone close-up photograph of a Maile’s Quince flower with a blurred background outdoor setting. Location: Salt Lake City, UT.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937)

My Gallery is open today at 11am. A show celebrating this years student work from the Winter Wood Engraving Workshops run here at my studio. It really feels like a vintage year there is some amazing work.
Open 11 to 5 Fri and Sat. BN8 6QA.
I hope you can make it along.

I have an Open Studio this Friday and Saturday (11 to 5) celebrating the end of this year's Winter Wood Engraving Workshops - with an exhibition of my students work And we'll be throwing a party on Friday evening 7 'til 9.30 - with live music from the amazing @agatha.comfort

My elm torso 'Archer' has been included in AppArts Easter Exhibition
It opens this Saturday and is open to the 18th April (10am - 4pm)
You'll find the sculpture trail and an incredible collection of art exhibited at King Edwards School, Petworth Road, Surrey. GU8 5SG.

Another winter of my wood engraving Workshops is almost over.
We're putting together a show of work completed since last November.
Please come and join us - the wine will be flowing on the Friday evening if you'd care to join us.
At my Studio; Village Works, East Hoathly, BN6 6DS, 10th & 11th April

Ha! I hope you enjoy the print.

A huge thanks to both @arteliumwine and everone who visited the Art Fair on Saturday, is was great to meet so many people there. Here's that Barn Owl I was demonstrating, I did get quite a way into it!

You can book your complimentary ticket via Artelium's web site, doors open 10am, see you there (unless you're going to join @millionwomenrise.bsky.social in London tomorrow, good luck and have great day if you are).

Very busy here at the workshop, with lots on.
Also getting ready for Artelium Vineyard Art Fayre tomorrow. Drawn up this block so I've got something to demonstrate.

In tribute I share, for the first time my band new print 'Enchanted Place'. Low winter sun shines on a small bubbling stream on the Ashdown Forest.
Thank you for the all the recent interest in the print- it will be available soon, I promise!

What wonderful news to wake up to this morning - Thank you Gorton and Denton, I feel the sun has peeped into our divided country which seemed destined to slide into hate and division. I now dare to hope.

Just like that we're 2 months into the year - the nights are definitely drawing out and my cherished spring bank at home is really beginning to get into it's stride.
And my first Art Fair is almost upon us.
I will be appearing at the wonderfully supportive Artelium Vineyard I hope to see you there!

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

You're very kind, thank you (I'm not sure I'm that patient though!)

I think 'Enchanted Place' is finally done - after an afternoon of proofing and tweaks.
Winter light finds a bubbling stream hidden in a ghyll that bisects the heathland of the Ashdown Forest.
I'd love to hear your thought to this new wood engraving.

It's been a while but my latest block is finally ready for a proof.

The Goddess of Victory, Nike, my bonfire sculpture for this years East Hoathly's Carnival.
This stunning photo of the bonfire is by Jim Holden.
She burns tomorrow, the culmination of our evening at around 10pm. Roads shut to the village at 5pm, so get here then if you'd like to watch it burn.

Water Wheel' a sculptural commission I've been working on over the last couple of weeks. In a garden criss crossed by streams and contains a working water mill with the da Vinci quote "water is the driving force of all nature" hand lettered into the flowing water that runs over the wheel.

Thank you Phil, you're very kind, I am sorry I am not more conveniently placed in the world!

'Home on a golden tide' - wood engraving.
Thank you so much for all the interest shown in my new print. Now available on my web shop (link in my bio), or your welcome to pop into my workshop and say hello to pick up yours.
www.keithapettit.com/online-store...

A crazily long and stressful day yesterday - but we've now made good progress on the bonfire sculpture. One more weekend to complete it.

Today the bonfire sculpture finally starts to take shape.

'Home on a golden tide' - wood engraving. From Pencil sketch, through the conti crayon development, the engraved block and finished print.
Available now via my web shop: share.google/RhlZoMZfmqhN...
If you hurry there's a nearly 40% discount.

I think my latest engraving is done! Not sure when I'm going to have time to take a test print, but I'll share it as soon as I can.
I'd love to hear both your thoughts on it, and on an idea for a title!

A little sneak preview of one of the componants of this years bonfire sculpture - the bust of Nike, finished last night. We'll be lifting it into place Saturday morning.