Thus was a multimedia paper, but pastel mat is great or with watercolour pencils Daler Rowney Aquafine smooth 300g/SQM is lovely

Popped this one in a frame #oilpainting La Coupée #Sark

My wife bought me some lovely colour pencils, so I thought I'd try them out (good to get back to some art ) #colouredpencilart #art #puffin #Sark

It's amazing what adaptive sports @sunpeaksresort.bsky.social have managed to do to get me skiing again after lower limb peripheral neuropathy robbed me of normal balance processes and feedback

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Been painting again. It's good for the soul. This is #Sark, the iconic La Coupee, linking Little Sark and Big Sark. I've been wanting to have a go at this scene for a long time #art #oilpainting #Channelislands #seascape

UN poster for International Day of the Girl. A group of young African girls are clapping outside. There is a quote underneath from Ban Ki-Moon which says 'Girls everywhere should be able to lead lives free from fear and violence.' - Photo: Flickr | UNAMID

Celebrating International Day of the Girl 2025 👧♀️🌍🇺🇳

Every October 11, the UN and gender equality advocates champion the rights and potential of girls everywhere.

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#IDG2025 #WorldGirlsDay #EmpowerGirls #DayOfTheGirl #GirlsDay

Can my congregation do #Harvest or what?! Absolutely amazing display on our little island in our #Methodist #Church, as we give thanks for God's good gifts. All the #love that goes into this! #Sark #Channelislands

So, it must be autumn

Back to the easel after a long break..... Little teaser of the first strokes #art #oilpainting #seascape

18 months ago I had the vision to convert a derelict eyesore on our main street into an art gallery showcasing past & present artists on #Sark. The community responded & working together we have achieved something very special- and now this community project is winning awards! #artgallery #community

They never fail to thrill #redarrows #photography

Sometimes it's great to have your camera handy (even when the light has almost gone) #photography

#bluesky, power and grace

Great to be hosting West End Theatre in our little island again with @nationaltheatre.org.uk at Sark Sanctuary Centre, the first of our autumn season screenings. #artforall #theatre #sark #channelislands

#Sark skies (and sunset selfie) #sunset #photography#channelislands #calmbeforethestorm

(Ex)Pharmacist and photographer, finding the poison beauty

#Sark, as the sun goes down (after a little swim...)

#TheCrucible @edfringe.bsky.social a superb production (and clever marketing), beautiful choreography and dancing from Sacramento Dance Theatre, and painfully (ironically?) as allegorically relevant to current US society and politics as when written

Chromatic scales and #bluesky @edfringe.bsky.social

We walk where poets cast in stone echo to open skies and sandstone spires spin stories through the web of history's streets #Edinburgh #poetry #writers @edfringe.bsky.social @scotstorycentre.bsky.social @iamloudpro.bsky.social

Beautiful inspired music inspiring the next generation @edfringe.bsky.social #busking #music #artforall

#Edinburgh nights @edfringe.bsky.social

#Scottish skies and scurrying crowds, a pause for street performers, fliers pressed into every palm, beer on plastic grass under parasol shade, storytelling and laugh-out-loud times, streets of stone and history, experience @edfringe.bsky.social @scotstorycentre.bsky.social @iamloudpro.bsky.social

Pick of @edfringe.bsky.social for us so far, two of them at the wonderful @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Go and see all of these! #Dregs #Loudpoets #Fragilecreatures #Earnest #Pottytheplant @iamloudpro.bsky.social @hannahroseplatt.bsky.social @sayitagainsorry.bsky.social #BSL #spokenword #comedy

Fringed witrh #bluesky @edfringe.bsky.social

A little #mixedmedia experimentation #art

#Sark School Sports Day. Always brings out the competitive nature in the big(ger) kids #photography

#Happiness. One of my favourite pictures of my wife and youngest

The sort of MP the UK needs more of