Gavin Cologne-Brookes
@cologneg.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, author of books on William Styron, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bruce Springsteen. Portraits from Paris (LSU Press, 2025).
This portrait of Bruce Springsteen is on loan display in the Vere Harmsworth Library, Rothermere American Insitute, University of Oxford - @raioxford.bsky.social - alongside portraits of Arthur Miller, William Styron & Joyce Carol Oates.
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This portrait of Bruce Springsteen is on loan display in the Vere Harmsworth Library, Rothermere American Insitute, University of Oxford - @raioxford.bsky.social - alongside portraits of Arthur Miller, William Styron & Joyce Carol Oates.
Intriguing to see joycecaroloates.bsky.social posting about Bruce Springsteen. When I began to write about links between them for American Lonesome, I wasn't sure about it, but a lot more connects them than their mutual admiration for Flannery O'Connor.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Intriguing to see joycecaroloates.bsky.social posting about Bruce Springsteen. When I began to write about links between them for American Lonesome, I wasn't sure about it, but a lot more connects them than their mutual admiration for Flannery O'Connor.
Enjoyable panel on memoir with Catharine Savage Brosman at the Louisiana Book Festival November 1.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Enjoyable panel on memoir with Catharine Savage Brosman at the Louisiana Book Festival November 1.
I took the Greyhound all over the US 1979-85 & occasionally up to 1995, so a roundtrip from New Orleans to Baton Rouge this past weekend was a dose of nostalgia.
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I took the Greyhound all over the US 1979-85 & occasionally up to 1995, so a roundtrip from New Orleans to Baton Rouge this past weekend was a dose of nostalgia.
Bloody hell: best year ever for our garden apples. Branches touching the grass. . . "and there may be two or three / Apples that I didn't pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now." Robert Frost.
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Bloody hell: best year ever for our garden apples. Branches touching the grass. . . "and there may be two or three / Apples that I didn't pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now." Robert Frost.
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"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting
By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]
#art #painting #illustration #caturday
acrylic painting
By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]
#art #painting #illustration #caturday
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting
By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]
#art #painting #illustration #caturday
acrylic painting
By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]
#art #painting #illustration #caturday
Joyce Carol Oates (2010). This oil portrait is based on how joycecaroloates.bsky.social was when we had an onstage conversation in Chicago as part of Story Week 2010. The painting is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, @raioxford.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Joyce Carol Oates (2010). This oil portrait is based on how joycecaroloates.bsky.social was when we had an onstage conversation in Chicago as part of Story Week 2010. The painting is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, @raioxford.bsky.social
Arthur Miller (2009). Standing outside his home in Roxbury, Connecticut in the summer 1990, he's holding a copy of his autobiography, Timebends. This oil portrait is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
August 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Arthur Miller (2009). Standing outside his home in Roxbury, Connecticut in the summer 1990, he's holding a copy of his autobiography, Timebends. This oil portrait is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
Tango, Buenos Aires (2016)
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tango, Buenos Aires (2016)
My portrait of painter, Richard Ewen, an American who settled in Wiltshire. I inherited his easel.
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My portrait of painter, Richard Ewen, an American who settled in Wiltshire. I inherited his easel.
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Paris Métro (2023)
August 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Paris Métro (2023)
Bouquiniste (2025)
August 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Bouquiniste (2025)
October in the Tuileries (2023)
August 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
October in the Tuileries (2023)
I once knew someone who knew Fowles. I had a hardback of Daniel Martin & a friend with a son named Daniel Martin. Fowles signed the copy "to Daniel Martin."
Charity shop find. I used to see the Picador paperback of this in the early 90s when I started reading novels, and was always intrigued by it. I’ve read only two Fowles books: The Collector and French Lieutenant’s Woman. Loved both but I know his reputation otherwise is shaky.
August 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I once knew someone who knew Fowles. I had a hardback of Daniel Martin & a friend with a son named Daniel Martin. Fowles signed the copy "to Daniel Martin."
@lsupress.bsky.social have included a monochrome reproduction of this painting, "Art Appreciation," in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light.
July 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@lsupress.bsky.social have included a monochrome reproduction of this painting, "Art Appreciation," in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light.
Our cat, Socrates, died aged 21 in April. In youth he was a remarkable leaper. Later he was arthritic, deaf, and poor-sighted, but remained philosophical.
July 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our cat, Socrates, died aged 21 in April. In youth he was a remarkable leaper. Later he was arthritic, deaf, and poor-sighted, but remained philosophical.
"I wander & I find," writes Pessoa. "I find because I wander." I found him through Saramago & both accompany me on visits to Lisbon (Ch. 20 of Portraits from Paris @lsupress.bsky.social). The Book of Disquiet is a strangely relaxing read. "Life is an experimental journey that we make involuntarily."
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Published by the Half Pint Press, London, 2017.
There were only 50 copies of this made for sale (out of a total run of 80), so I thought I’d share as much of it as I can. Numbering of fragments follows the 1982 edition.
Published by the Half Pint Press, London, 2017.
There were only 50 copies of this made for sale (out of a total run of 80), so I thought I’d share as much of it as I can. Numbering of fragments follows the 1982 edition.
July 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"I wander & I find," writes Pessoa. "I find because I wander." I found him through Saramago & both accompany me on visits to Lisbon (Ch. 20 of Portraits from Paris @lsupress.bsky.social). The Book of Disquiet is a strangely relaxing read. "Life is an experimental journey that we make involuntarily."
Bonjour Bluesky. I'm visiting locations featuring in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (lsupress.bluesky.social 2025) - here the Tuileries & Musée d'Orsay. It's also about how 1970s boarding made me an oil painter. "Away to School" is reproduced in the book.
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Bonjour Bluesky. I'm visiting locations featuring in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (lsupress.bluesky.social 2025) - here the Tuileries & Musée d'Orsay. It's also about how 1970s boarding made me an oil painter. "Away to School" is reproduced in the book.
"I lost my head and went straight to the cellar to look for my hat which was in the attic." François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb.
Temporary memory loss is undoubtedly linked to altitude. Go to the top of the house and forget why you're there. Return to the ground floor and remember.
July 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"I lost my head and went straight to the cellar to look for my hat which was in the attic." François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb.
The @lsupress.bsky.social virtual book launch for Portraits from Paris will take place on 26 June. Please see the LSU Press Facebook page for details.
May 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The @lsupress.bsky.social virtual book launch for Portraits from Paris will take place on 26 June. Please see the LSU Press Facebook page for details.
Thank you to all who came to the PV of Paris Paintings on 6 March. The paintings are on display until 30 March.
March 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Thank you to all who came to the PV of Paris Paintings on 6 March. The paintings are on display until 30 March.
