Gansey studies – II

Recent work.

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shadows and haze

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The Arts Mix starts in a couple of minutes on BBC Radio Scotland.... 🎙️

It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊.

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War Child Records presents ‘HELP(2)’ - the new collaborative album, out 6th March 2026. We made this album to help. You can help too. Pre-order now: warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2

All proceeds from this album support War Child's work with children living through conflict.

<Credit to JG / Academy>

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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Thank you for re-posting @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social Much appreciated. :-)

Norse sea.
Two hours of plein air painting. Big seas, near gale force winds and frozen hands. Wouldn’t have it any other way :)

Walk.

Reflections of thin birch shiver in a dark pool. These woods are pitted with small circular coal scrapings from another age. A deers velvet antlers glow in the half light as a buzzard skews its presence. The wind picks up, veering to the east. Means cold. I startle a hare, it hurdles dead…

Monochrome etching of a snow covered mountain seen across a glacier.

This one's off to the Yorkshire Artist's Winter Show at the Saltaire Gallery, Nov 20 - Feb 22.
Mount MacArthur, aquatint etching, 30.5x28.5 cm, edition of 15.
Named for British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur, the peak lies at the head of the Heaney Glacier on the island of South Georgia.

Thank you Cor :)

Chris's Two-Way Poetry Podcast is a brilliant series. Poets including Fay Musselwhite, Rob Hindle, Pete Green and others illuminating their own practice and those of others. This episode (Pt 1 of 2), with Brian Lewis & Chris discussing the links between their own work, is amazing.

In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm.

@petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social

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'Winter Meadow (Misty Copse)'
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Subject - Fidra Lighthouse Description - photo shows a hand holding a landscape sketchbook with a colour pencil drawing of a rocky island under a grey sky. There is a lighthouse on the island and a rock arch. In the background is a beach with the island beyond that. Location - Yellowcraigs Beach, East Lothian looking out to the North Sea Surface - 200gsm Pith sketchbook Medium - Derwent Drawing colour pencils

Sketching Fidra island before the rain set in.

Shoreline, Elie.

Shore, Elie, Fife.

An extra special episode of Waldy & Bendy’s Adventures in Art this week, as we take a deep dive on Holbein’s Ambassadors. Available now on all the usual platforms.

(Who needs Holbein when you’ve got ChatGPT?)

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palisades

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On Being Half-Imaginary An experimental, hybrid exploration of personal archives, memory, identity and time (travel), On Being Half-Imaginary mixes memoir with media studies to present a nonlinear tale of becoming oneself. W...

well, my dears, here we are: the OFFICIAL launch date for ON BEING HALF-IMAGINARY! in addition to this pinned announcement, with link, i’ll be cycling through my silly promo graphics over the next few weeks/months to keep my toes in the stream.

order here:

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Elie rocks Fife.

Thanks John ! Much appreciated 😁

Thank you Mark :)

And again, @clarapirx.bsky.social Many thanks for re-posting. :-)

Irreparable Parables Listening Party from Clay Pipe Music Listening Party from Clay Pipe Music.

Tonight! Join @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social and myself, 8pm at the Bandcamp Listening Party for Irreparable Parables, Andrew’s new LP. It’s looking like it will be another cold, wet January evening, so stay at home, settle in, and come and join us! RSPV claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/merch/irrepa...

Issue 48.01 is now online, featuring:

@tomstevenson.bsky.social on Xi Jinping
David Runciman on Kamala Harris’s memoir
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Auden and Eliot
Chal Ravens on Britney Spears
Tony Wood on Trump’s invasion of Venezuela
and a cover by Jon McNaught.

Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

This is a painting of a road between some fields

Fee-uld #field

#painting #road #green #hedgerow #somerset