The view from my studio - it’s a surprise I ever look away to paint. #studio #art

I like a bit of bimbling for vintage bargains £9 for a vibrant granny square blanket that covers a super king ? Ruby says yes . #vintage #crochet #preloved #colour #folkart #notshedartbutbedart

The oaks still hanging on to their leaves. #trees #lookup #nature #walking #dogs #woods

I’m spending a lot of time looking up atm

A little find in a communal orchard - on today’s wet dog walk .

(Max Kurzweil, 1912) I have things to do but the weather and the financial news are giving me this vibe.

Daniel Arsham Bronze Eroded Neil Armstrong Yorkshire Sculpture Park #sculpture #space #art

Moonikin Campos , Helga , Zohar and a stuffed Snoopy dog are off to the Moon. Three mannequins , the (male) Captain named after the engineer who helped bring Apollo 13 back to Earth. Doesn’t quite give the same ‘buzz’ as Armstrong and Aldrin gave me in ‘69 but still, exciting and as Billy Bragg sang ‘I too can feel it’s pull’. #ArtemisLaunch

A morning in the woods followed by a shared bacon butty. Ruby is standing on Maiden’s Bower a round cairn- a prehistoric funerary monument dating to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC) constructed as a stone mound covering single or multiple burials.

Redhills ‘The Pitman’s Parliament’ in Durham under renovation and reopening to the public in 2023 .