It's World Mental Health Day! 🌍💜 It’s a day to talk about mental health and show everyone that mental health matters. We all deserve good mental health. 💜

Some really wonderful pictures of the Aurora this evening - here’s a beautiful one from Cheshire. Have a look if the sky is clear!

Solar System 'Dark Worlds' this evening on BBC2 at 9pm has the longest continuous shot we've ever attempted - 5 minutes. Our camera tech Nick Gaven made this little edit to show how it was done. We only did the shot twice because it was tricky!

Bore da! Today is Diwrnod Shwmae Su’mae - a day to celebrate and encourage the use of Cymraeg Why not start a conversation with Shwmae or Su'mae today? Give it a go!

All prepped for today's session with Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff Met Widening Access Looking forward to more explorations into colour! If you know of someone who would benefit from creating time and space for themselves to connect & get creative do get in touch with the #wideningaccess team!

Recycling – it’s a Welsh thing ♻️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We’re proud to be the second best recycling nation in the world! Thank you to everyone who makes Wales greener every day 🙌 This #RecycleWeek’s theme is rescuing recyclable items – even recycling one extra item a day makes a huge difference!

Tuesday's creative arts for wellbeing session with Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff Met Widening Access I've enjoyed delivering these sessions - it's our last one next week! Get in touch with the Widening Access team if you, or someone you know would benefit from taking part! #painting #wellbeing

Last day of Catherine Baker & Ainsley Hillard's show at the beautiful Art shop and Chapel, Abergavenny High Street, until 5pm

So proud of our learners Cardiff Met Widening Access #creativeartsforwellbeing They've gained a lot of art skills within a short time! It's been a pleasure. Thanks for inviting me #tastercourses Adamsdown Primary 🧡

It’s exhibition opening day!

Today's launch @cwtshartgallery of John Briggs photographs about Newport's long lost public houses. It highlights the people that made pubs special and shows some of the beautiful architecture that goes unnoticed! This exhibition is on until end of November.

🎶 This Wednesday, join us for an unforgettable Lunchtime Concert with Live Music Now and Amruta! 🌟 Dive into the magic of Indian classical and folk music, as Amruta blends vibrant sounds from Wales and India. 📆 Wed 6 Nov at 1pm 🎟️ Book here: buff.ly/46uyYYy

Extraordinary evening with Newport Rising #chartism #Chartists #NewportHistory #democracy #AfterTheRising #Adwaith #CornExchange #NewportSouthWales

For this year's #ArtOnTheHill Sunday, I'm at St.Mark's Church, Newport (no.6) on ArtOnTheHill Newport There's some music today by Mark and Steve this afternoon too! Yesterday I had my first open studio - huge thanks to everyone who visited despite the storm! #FlowerPowers #contemporaryart

There are still spaces available for the free talk ‘Negative Welsh Artist’ by @BedwyrWilliams on 5/12 at 7pm. Book on Eventbrite. Supported by CELF: National contemporary art gallery for Wales. @amgueddfacymru Museum Wales @celfarycyd

Looking for something a little different for a special Christmas present. Why not book a place on one of these fantastic jewellery workshops. Always a joy. Just message me today

With Christmas on its way, why not give a unique gift that you can make this Saturday, 7th December 2-4pm at our Chartist Hub! It's a tote bag using recycled denim JeanGenies Newport Rising #upcycle #green Join me! Bookings open now, only 8 places and they're filling up!

Sketching, sheltering from wind and rain at #USW #CityCampus yesterday beginning a commission from NewportMuseum @AmegueddfaCymru which I am delighted about! #landscape #abstract #Newport #UskRiver #tidal

Delighted to read this article in today’s Guardian👏🏻👏🏻Newport takes centre stage in Celtic noir series Ar y Ffin | Newport | The Guardian ⁦Dimitri⁩⁦Jessica Morden MP⁩ ⁦Ruth Jones MP⁩ ⁦Jayne Bryant Newport West⁩ ⁦John Griffiths MS⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…

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