Drawing on experience - Artworks by Simon Fell In this edition of The Glimmerists I am going write about my history of drawing. Generally I keep the drawing work and the ceramic artworks separate. To my mind a successful work of art gives you ener...

Latest Glimmerists post: My practice of drawing has waxed and waned over the years but my current focus is fast portrait drawing with @drawingisfree_org
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The Myth of the Artistic Prime Why artists innovate at every stage of life.

More wisdom from Matthew Burrows: Creative lives rarely follow a predictable curve. Instead they unfold through a mixture of exploration, recognition, pressure and reinvention. open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

Do something inspired - Artworks by Simon Fell I am working on multiple projects all at different stages of development at the time of writing. I am finding that this pattern is both familiar and difficult. I do not think of myself as a natural mu...

My latest post in the Glimmerists series is about my understanding of what inspiration is.
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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Here's some of my latest #drawingisfree work. Charcoal on A3 prepared with smears of gouache

Thanks Mitchell

Venepsteinezuela
Greenepsteinland
Mexepsteinico
Cubepsteina
Iepsteinran
Colepsteinombia

Some of my best of #drawingisfree 2025

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Invisible Illness by Emily Mendenhall - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Another day, another ECG. Life with heart damage from covid.

Having long covid feels like living in an alternate reality where I've been left behind. My friend @emendenhall.bsky.social makes the invisible visible in her powerful new book

Latest drawings from #drawingisfree

Drawings from #drawingisfree Monday 24th Nov. 2025
Showing: Bry, Martin Franco, Cammilla Gray and Barbara Wallis
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#drawingfast #speedportrait #acrylicportrait #charcoalface

You’re Not Failing: Artists Have Always Had Day Jobs Feeling like a failure for needing a day job? Artists have always balanced multiple income streams. Learn why your sustainable model isn't settling—it's smart.

Great article by my long-time blogging friend Lee Down
#art
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Large white daisy type Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Some recent autumn floral shots:

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.

Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.

A few of my best drawings from #drawingisfree and some abbreviated thoughts:
There is something in the speed and informality that creates a hot-house growing environment that is very conducive to experimentation and risk taking.
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#fastdrawing #speeddrawing #drawingeurope #drawingisfree #drawinguk

Mrs A often complains the poetry I read/write/share is serious, gloomy, & downright depressing...

She may have a point, but to prove I'm not a one trick pony...

Just back from a forest walk, kicking through drifts of leaves - reminded of this by Brian Bilston

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#autumn
#fall

Here are some of my drawings from Monday mornings #drawingisfree
Here I used #biro on pre-made watercolour and acrylic backgrounds

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I just subscribed to Jim Conwell's substack because he is a really good Brittish poet. jimpconwell.substack.com?r=fp4n3&utm_...

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

Drawings from the latest #drawingisfree session

From this mornings #drawingisfree working with ink and a stick on paper with some prepped bg’s in acrylic
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#europeandrawing #drawingforall #sitinturn #speeddrawing #abbreviateddrawing
#portraiture #portraitdrawing #fastportraits
#livedrawing #drawingpresence

Four of my felt-tip watercolour fast portraits from Monday mornings #drawingisfree session

And now a message from the White House... Good Morning Amerikkka. How are you?

Racism is bad for the economy. Economic growth stems from either increases in labor productivity or population size. Shrinking the population (and removing productive workers) shrinks the economy BY DEFINITION. People like Stephen Miller love racism more than economic prosperity 6/x

The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x

Here’s my movie about ‘Desprite’ a ceramic sculpture with four wheels and a head.
#ceramicsculpture #contemporarysculpture
#ceramicsnow
#inthestudio
#contemporaryart

Four from #DrawingisFree today. I worked with runny acrylics applied with sticks mainly on A3