David Pott
@davidpott.bsky.social
Landscape artist living in North West England. I paint the Lake District and The Pennines a lot, and sometimes venture over to Whitby. Website at www.davidpottart.co.uk
Rowland Hilder's watercolours are amazing. No one did winter, or elm trees, better.
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Rowland Hilder's watercolours are amazing. No one did winter, or elm trees, better.
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While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
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I just came across some photos I took at Buttermere eight years ago and thought I would share a couple😊
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I just came across some photos I took at Buttermere eight years ago and thought I would share a couple😊
Added the finishing touches to this Lake District landscape tonight. Next week I'm posting it to it's new owner.
#Cumbria #Lakedistrict #art #landscapeart
#Cumbria #Lakedistrict #art #landscapeart
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Added the finishing touches to this Lake District landscape tonight. Next week I'm posting it to it's new owner.
#Cumbria #Lakedistrict #art #landscapeart
#Cumbria #Lakedistrict #art #landscapeart
”going to art galleries is good for you – relieving stress and cutting heart disease risk, as well as boosting the immune system.”
Of course! I reckon it's the mindfulness that looking at great art instills.
I should be really healthy...😁
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Of course! I reckon it's the mindfulness that looking at great art instills.
I should be really healthy...😁
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on art and health: the masterpiece can cure the body as well as the soul | Editorial
Editorial: From a Van Gogh self-portrait to Gauguin’s dreamscapes, new studies show that seeing original art can calm stress and boost health
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
”going to art galleries is good for you – relieving stress and cutting heart disease risk, as well as boosting the immune system.”
Of course! I reckon it's the mindfulness that looking at great art instills.
I should be really healthy...😁
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Of course! I reckon it's the mindfulness that looking at great art instills.
I should be really healthy...😁
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Painting of Borrowdale on a bright spring morning.
#art #painting #cumbria
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#art #painting #cumbria
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Borrowdale, Early Spring
Size: 24×18 inches Media: Acrylic on panel Unframed Signed on the front Location: Borrowdale, Lake District
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October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Painting of Borrowdale on a bright spring morning.
#art #painting #cumbria
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#art #painting #cumbria
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
After months of revisiting this landscape, I finally found the balance between too much detail and the energy of paint itself. Here’s how roughening the surface brought the painting back to life.
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October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
After months of revisiting this landscape, I finally found the balance between too much detail and the energy of paint itself. Here’s how roughening the surface brought the painting back to life.
www.davidpottart.co.uk/embracing-th...
www.davidpottart.co.uk/embracing-th...
I'm stacking up the paintings of Langdale tonight. The one on the bottom is nearly finished. Plenty to do though, just keep painting...
October 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm stacking up the paintings of Langdale tonight. The one on the bottom is nearly finished. Plenty to do though, just keep painting...
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
I'm not hugely techie, but I managed to hang on with this beautifully written explanation of why the BlueSky way of doing social media is so promising. Fingers crossed. overreacted.io/open-social/
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I'm not hugely techie, but I managed to hang on with this beautifully written explanation of why the BlueSky way of doing social media is so promising. Fingers crossed. overreacted.io/open-social/
Glorious. Amazing. Superb. Glad I'm a visual artist because words fail me when trying to describe the Lake District on a day like today! #lakedistrict #cumbria
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Glorious. Amazing. Superb. Glad I'm a visual artist because words fail me when trying to describe the Lake District on a day like today! #lakedistrict #cumbria
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A fascinating 🧵of all sorts of interrelated nerdiness about archaeology, art, literature, history, and golf.
The talented Louis Ginnett painted this mural for Brighton + Hove Grammar School Sussex in 1937
Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial
The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935
Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔
#HillfortsWednesday
Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial
The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935
Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔
#HillfortsWednesday
September 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A fascinating 🧵of all sorts of interrelated nerdiness about archaeology, art, literature, history, and golf.
Joe Scarborough captures the essence of my favourite seaside resort!
Whitby Regatta, 2022, painting by Sheffield artist Joe Scarborough, b.1938 (private collection). #NorthernArt
August 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Joe Scarborough captures the essence of my favourite seaside resort!
Looking back at some recent paintings and grouping them together in a corner of the studio. Unusually for me, I'm actually quite happy with these recent Lake District paintings. More to come!
#LakeDistict #Cumbria #Wainwrights
#LakeDistict #Cumbria #Wainwrights
July 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Looking back at some recent paintings and grouping them together in a corner of the studio. Unusually for me, I'm actually quite happy with these recent Lake District paintings. More to come!
#LakeDistict #Cumbria #Wainwrights
#LakeDistict #Cumbria #Wainwrights
Seat Sandal from Grasmere. A little painting (9x12 inches) completed last week. I've got a new painting easel for working outside, so this painting was used to test it out in the studio before Intake it on location.
#lakedistrict #cumbria #artofcumbria
#lakedistrict #cumbria #artofcumbria
July 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Seat Sandal from Grasmere. A little painting (9x12 inches) completed last week. I've got a new painting easel for working outside, so this painting was used to test it out in the studio before Intake it on location.
#lakedistrict #cumbria #artofcumbria
#lakedistrict #cumbria #artofcumbria
Making progress with this #LakeDistrict painting of Loughrigg, near Ambleside. This painting has been a work in progress for several months, but I think I'm nearly there. 🤞
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Making progress with this #LakeDistrict painting of Loughrigg, near Ambleside. This painting has been a work in progress for several months, but I think I'm nearly there. 🤞
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So expressive ~ Edgar Degas’ two charcoal studies of music hall singers (c 1880)
July 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
So expressive ~ Edgar Degas’ two charcoal studies of music hall singers (c 1880)
The Musee D'Orsay was amazing, of course, but standing in the queue for 45 minutes on the hottest Paris day for decades was a 'challenge' I don't want to repeat!
July 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Musee D'Orsay was amazing, of course, but standing in the queue for 45 minutes on the hottest Paris day for decades was a 'challenge' I don't want to repeat!
In Paris to see the #Hockney exhibition. Just blown away by his creativity and vision. Looking at the world through his eyes feels like a superpower!
July 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In Paris to see the #Hockney exhibition. Just blown away by his creativity and vision. Looking at the world through his eyes feels like a superpower!
A quiet night in the studio and I'm painting this Lake District landscape - Stockley Bridge in Borrowdale.
June 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A quiet night in the studio and I'm painting this Lake District landscape - Stockley Bridge in Borrowdale.
Carole Cadwalladr is saying important things about AI and oligarchy that runs it. A real warning.
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
It’s not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr
In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ag...
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Carole Cadwalladr is saying important things about AI and oligarchy that runs it. A real warning.
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
I've been painting this for at least 3 months now and still not quite right. I need more chaos in the brush strokes because, as usual, my brush strokes are too tight and prissy.
April 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've been painting this for at least 3 months now and still not quite right. I need more chaos in the brush strokes because, as usual, my brush strokes are too tight and prissy.