The Sword Disappears in the Water tricycle.org/magazine/iron-… via Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Sunday afternoon splashabout…

On a beautiful weekend, when the hawthorn blossom is at its peak, here's Stanley Spencer's 'The May Tree', painted in 1932. Doesn't this just encapsulate Spring?

I've found the obituaries and articles about Frank Stella very moving and inspirational...I wish I'd known more about him earlier and will enjoy finding out more about him.

A walk up to Smeaton through drifts of bluebells then so much May surge at the lake - always lifts me up, this peaceful wandering.

> Cold War Steve

Splashabout….

'Haystacks in a landscape,' (1883) was once owned by Paul Gauguin, a keen collector of Impressionist painting before he gave up his job as a stockbroker. He was particularly drawn to Camille Pissarro's work and known to have lent three of his paintings to the Impressionist…

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Disassembling!

Actor Stephen Rae reading If I must die by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer….

The wilds are never quite as wild as you think. Oil and collage on paper.

26-04-24 I wish I could sleep like you do.
#sleep

It’s exactly one week till our literary event in Glasgow (Fri 10th May) in celebration of our new anthology ‘Earthly Rewards’. If you only attend one event by thi wurd ever, this is the one. All welcome. Tickets available here thi-wurd.com/product/earthl…

Blue Steps - oil on raw canvas - finally on a stretcher!

Carl Bielefeldt shundo.org/2024/05/02/car… All good questions...not sure there is an answer...