More Waldy at the Van Gogh show at the National Gallery. With two fascinating portraits.

These are really good. Particularly effective with the limited colour palette.

BREAKING - Labour Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson facing the sack over ‘abject chaos’ created by her disastrous and hasty plan to impose VAT on independent schools - as nursery schools and universities join the queue of professionals protesting #TomorrowsPapersToday

Excited to learn that Alex Ruben is bringing Alex Reuben to Hale. The Manchester gallery has established a strong reputation of showing work by interesting and accomplished artists.

This Saturday, artist Adele Wagstaff will teach you tips and tricks to improve your life drawing skills using our collection of antique casts. Book now for our online #RASketchClub session ⤵️ roy.ac/4zao7sr9

Thank you for your campaign championing the arts in schools Royal Academy 🙌🏾 Teaching one way of learning and approaching a problem won’t give us the answers society needs – in the workplace as much as the classroom. We need a mix. 🧡

Probably the best sofa in #Manchester. Manchester Art Gallery was packed earlier today, so I was delighted to find it unoccupied!

Loving the ‘gloves off’ approach the RA seems to have adopted. Let’s get this message out there. royalacademy.org.uk/article/art-is…

The irony of public school educated and regular panelist on BBC Radio 4 Giles Fraser saying he has an issue with (lack of) fairness in discussion about private schools on Moral Maze.

Impressed with the results from the first session introducing colour mixing to my Yr7 using watercolour and three primary colours.

Love this finely detailed study of St. Mark’s Basilica by Will Clarke who’s Manchester Art Fair this weekend. Enjoyed learning about the process and delighted that this one came home with me!

Seems the migration away from X is continuing. While I’m not planning on leaving just yet, I’ve got a foothold on Blue Sky as well. I plan to keep It simple and post arty stuff (mostly). If you fancy joining me I’m richardadavies.bsky.social

This is a great insight into Vermeer’s most celebrated painting and illustrates why understanding the context is so helpful when looking at art.

Our A level students were genuinely delighted with the badges given to them earlier today. Inspired by the #artisaserioussubject campaign by Royal Academy . It's sometimes very simple things that help promote the arts and start a conversation. The RSA NSEAD Stockport Grammar

There is no substitute for seeing 'live' work in a gallery/museum, and introducing students to pieces they have previously seen only in books or on screens is invaluable. Tate V&A NSEAD London trip enhances creative skills of Sixth Form artists stockportgrammar.co.uk/news-and-event…

Thoroughly enjoyed hearing Margarita Panayiotou and Prof Pete Etchells present evidence from their respective research into the effects of #socialmedia and #smartphones on #behaviour and #mentalhealth . Great presentations and (to steal a quote) 'a realistic tonic to the doom and gloom.'

A new venture in the art dept Stockport Grammar this year has been the Art Matters lunchtime shorts, in which a short presentation on a work of art or design given by a student is followed by an open discussion. Listen to one of them here: youtube.com/watch?v=LshS1H… NSEAD Art History in Schools

Fifth Year artists enjoyed visiting the collections held in Manchester Art Gallery, IWM North & The Lowry as they gathered source material that will form part of their preparatory studies in response to the GCSE exam paper question they are currently working on. facebook.com/stockportgramm…

It’s been great fun doing this with my Upper 6th. Not a bad way to start the school day. NSEAD Bob&Roberta Smith