Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland

TOAD WILL NOW DANCE, AND HE WILL BE WONDERFUL.

The finished headscarf! The indigo is a tradition of the Tuareg people (like Ousmane, the OC I threw into this historical AU to fit @taplingzines.bsky.social queer history zine), and the color was so rich and fun to paint

(Even though it did take me 3 hours 🫠)

#OCSky #Watercolor #Acuarela #ArtWIP

Oh that is lovely!

A cropped digital illustration of two masculine Native American characters kissing. One with arm tattoos leans over to kiss the nose of one sitting on the ground. The one sitting wears a purple arm band and a white bead necklace, and holds a basket of corn with the purple Haudenosaunee flag woven into the design.

A preview of my final piece for "We've Always Been Here", a queer historical zine that's now on Kickstarter! ⬇️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

So happy to bring some two-spirit representation to the project 💜

#2Spirit #TwoSpirit #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #Haudenosaunee #Indigiqueer #Art

I visited Kyoto, Japan, this year to photograph the Sakura season--Japanese cherry trees in bloom. This painting captures the view from Philosopher's Path, a winding walkway of large stones that traverses the width of Kyoto. The path follows a water-filled canal, and cherry trees overhang the entire walkway. This painting captures the peaceful beauty of cherry trees at dusk. "Cherry Bloom Dusk" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson 2024 40 x 30 in ORIGINAL SOLD Replicas and Prints Available

I visited Kyoto, Japan, to photograph the Sakura season, Japanese cherry trees in bloom. This painting captures the view from Philosopher's Path, a winding walkway of large stones that traverses the width of Kyoto.

Cherry Bloom Dusk
Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson
2024
40 x 30 in

#dailyart

Queer lives have changed and shifted in and out of the public eye of their cultures throughout all of history.
With my piece I wanted to show that some were (and still are!) hiding, but that doesn't make them any less valid or reduces their queer joy however private it might be.
🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

We are looking straight down the middle of the Great Hall. In the centre is a series of large oak posts which look like they are branching out and up holding the soaring roof above. There is a lot of wood, fit for woodnesday.

Bluesky: It's #woodnesday

Us: Hold our beer.

a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

A crop of an illustration of two Anglo-Saxon era lesbians. One is embracing the other from behind, burying her face in her neck while the other smiles joyfully, they are adorned by a background of various patterns inspired by the era.

💖We've Always Been Here💖
This is the final preview of my piece for this historical queer art book.
The Kickstarter has *just launched* here -> kck.st/4rGjFpk

A graphic with a large yellow banner in the middle announcing "Live on Kickstarter! We've Always Been Here: A queer historical zine." The bottom text is in a rainbow gradient with little rainbows framing the box. Above this is a mockup of the book's cover alongside some page mockups, and the bottom half features three other illustration previews.

🎉 Live on Kickstarter! 🎉

We've Always Been Here: A multicultural art book celebrating queerness throughout history, with illustrations from over 50 incredible artists! 🌈

Get the book and limited edition merch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

#ZineSky #Zines #LGBTQ #LGBTQArt #QueerArt

Wow, thank you so much!

Ha, thank you! Hmm, well, in those days the travel could be quite dangerous, and fasting while doing it especially so! She spent five years preparing by living ascetically, and then after touring the major sites in Palestine, she joined a community of hermit nuns in the Jordan desert.

Paraskevi Recommended listening: Kassia: Byzantine Hymns of the First Female Composer

Read the full story on the website: womenof1000ad.weebly.com/paraskevi.html

A Greek nun holds the hand of a man on the deck of a ship in a storm. Their clothes and the ropes of the ship are blowing in the wind, waves crash behind them, and they are lit up as if lightning has just struck nearby. Paraskevi looks encouraging while the man looks shellshocked but hopeful. Golden Byzantine saints’ icons hang from around their necks and glitter in the light.

Here's my newest Women of 1000 piece! This is Paraskevi, also known as St Parascheva. She was a Byzantine hermit nun who defied her parents to live an ascetic life and travelled to the Holy Land as a pilgrim.

#medievalsky #skystorians 🗃️

Thank you! 🥰

So thrilled to see the kickstarter launch and to be a part of this zine!! Please share with anyone you know who loves queer history!

Here's a preview of my piece, set in Ecuador around 2000 years ago. 🏳️‍🌈

Build mode screenshot from The Sims (2000)

You can only pick one

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. Is there a 2025 title that you loved that reflected the concepts and ideas that were central to Le Guin's work? Nominate it.

www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Three black and white prints featuring Black women by different artists

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915[– 2010), Samella Lewis (1923 – 2022), African American women printmakers who influenced the world with their art #WomensHistoryMonth

Women's History Network Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina…

Join us next Tuesday, 10 March at 4pm GMT for our fascinating panel on 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' featuring papers from Dr Julita Oetojo, Dr Irina Malinina, and Dr Simona Valeriani and chaired by Dr Kate Smith. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/

Digital sketchdump drawn on procreate. It shows a scenic view of a lake with an island in the centre. A hand holding a piece of tree bark covered in moss. Pink peonies in bloom. A skull from a gravestone with Memento Mori underneath. A gravestone decorated with a winged angel, a skull, and crossbones.

old sketchdump inspired by an artist retreat to scotland 🌿✨️

[ #art ]

Green, blue and turquoise seaglass pendents

Have been busy making new seaglass pendants ready. All handmade with seaglass found on #Shetland beaches.
Link to shop in comments

Call for Papers: Performing Evil, The Mediation and Display of Diabolic Spectres, 1700-2000 (4/5 June 2026, Leuven). This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. This conference is an initiative of Fabula Velata, a growing international and interdisciplinary research network for the historical study of occult performance. We hope to foster new connections between scholars working across history, performance studies, religious studies, media studies and related fields. Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Just seen this ace CfP from the excellent @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social. Slightly regretting that I'm already booked at a conference at the same time.

A medieval manuscript image of two men holding hands. Annouces a Symposium in Gender in Medieval Insular Literature, held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth, Wales.

You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies
wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...

A full moon in the sky reflected on still water on which a boat with three people is passing. Reeds grow on the shore in the foreground.

'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's.
#FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies!

Many thanks!

A small colour drawing of a woodland filled with snowdrop flowers, this artwork uses mostly green and white with some blue-green. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you so much!
If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Folksy shop.
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#Landscape #Snowdrops #trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

Thank you! I loved looking through all the different pieces. So many thought-provoking ones.

Self-portrait in coloured pencil, ink and Posca pen. A pale face is split in half, with one half turned 45 degrees to the side. Sand comes out of the mouth. A metal clamp is around the neck, and the breathing tube is illustrated red. There are swirls in the woman's eyes and dark circles under her eyes. Two large purple hands float around her and one turns half of her head to the side. A migraine aura is represented above her head as a black diamond with glittering white dots. Around her are laughing people, nonsensical voices, musical notes, and a merry go round.

Meg Hyland. We’ll never know what happened. 2025. Coloured pencil, ink, Posca pen.

Named after what my doctor said when I tried to get help after the experience.

I'm excited to be included in this online exhibition of self-portraits by disabled women!

Mine was inspired by the worst migraine I ever had in my life, which happened last October when I tried medical marijuana. (Yeah, turns out I'm allergic to weed...)

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