Painting of different coloured tulips in two glass vases on a grey surface against a white background

Tulips, c. 2000 by Elizabeth Blackadder #WomensArt #April

Painting of a woodland scene in dappled sunlight and with the forest flower covered in blue flowers

'Bluebells at Wisley' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #womensart

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

This is my screaming tree. I've been going there a lot this year.

I want to enter a room with the energy of a cat:

“Is there anything I can mess up or eat in here? Nah?
Well, anyway, you're lucky to have me!"

Cat about to interfere with bed making when sheet is lifted into the air by woman at edge of painting, white draped window overlooking garden.

Making Beds, Deborah DeWit, 2010. #Caturday

Seven painted eggs with images of leaves, flowers abd birds in blue and white, all on a white surface

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring.
Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

Three preschool children are playing dressing up and are having a tea party draped in their mother‘s clothing which is far too big for them. They have prepared tea with a plastic tea set and are serving hot cross buns.

Hot cross buns, anyone?

Artist: Harry Wingfield (1971)

Artwork print featuring three cats, heads, in brown and orange with dots on a cream spotty background

Polka dot Cats by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama #Womensart

Day 4: They suspect nothing.

Finely-detailed, mixed media illustration showing a canal in early spring with a barge, bridge and towpath

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘The Canal at Islington’ (1977)
Artist: SR Badmin

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

“In the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.”

The first page of ‘What to Look for in Spring”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

I absolutely love his works and want you to see them too.
Ukrainian art deserves to be heard louder.

🇺🇦 Dmytro Nahurnyi (1946–2019)

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Photo of side view of ceramic bust in white with blue floral patterning partly.and Mohawk style spikes on head neck and back

Juliette Clovis, contemporary French ceramic artist who works with porcelain #womensart

My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’. Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!

Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

📷 by me

#Archaeology

'Coffee and Friendship'
By Martina Heiduczek

My photo shows a hemispherical red pottery bowl with underside supports in the shape of a pair of human feet. It is handmade from red Nile clay, slipped and polished to give a light surface sheen. The front of the bowl tips slightly forward as if offering its contents. The museum catalogue entry informs us that a bowl standing on feet is very similar in form to the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "to bring." Dimensions: diameter 13.2 cm x width 13.7 cm x depth 9.8 cm. This type of bowl is dated to Predynastic Egypt, Late Naqada I-early Nagada lI period, circa 3700-3450 BC. I saw this bowl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum purchased the bowl from M. Mohassib in Egypt in 1910.

To bring a smile to your face this weekend …

An ancient bowl with human feet!

Made in predynastic Egypt around 5,500 years ago.

The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

📷 by me

#Archaeology

"Blue Birds" by British illustrator Tracey English.

Gorgeous winter light in Edinburgh yesterday

#bruntsfield #edinburgh #architecture

As long as I can breathe, I’ll keep educating you about Ukraine

Today, 117 years since the birth of Maria Prymachenko (1909–1997), a renowned 🇺🇦 folk artist.

Few know her son and grandson were artists too: the first two works – by Maria,
the third – by her son Fedir,
the last – by her grandson Ivan

Print with three trees on a hill to the left and a large flock of flying birds above right in a tight formation in a blue sky

'Murmuration' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

Painting of red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) in a snowy, natural setting. The cranes are in dynamic postures, possibly engaged in their courtship dance.

Morning.
🖼️ Becca Stadtlander

Under a leaden sky, ducks are huddled together on a partially frozen silvery lake surrounded by reeds and bull rushes

‘At the edge of the mere’

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

A stile and some red poppies. A picture I painted from a Terry Harrison watercolour teaching book. It conjures up a lovely summers day in the country.

Watercolour painting of a country scene in summer to ward off those winter blues. #art #watercolour #painting #summer

Two starlingson a sheep's back in the snow

Starlings in their fleecy slippers #Shetland #snow

Watercolour painting of some flowers to brighten up your day! #art #watercolours #painting