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jack heathen
@jackheathen.bsky.social
Wanderer, artist, poet and musician from the People’s Republic Of Albion
Bonfire Night, the Houses of Parliament burning down
(pencil, graphite & charcoal on paper)
#BonfireNight #HousesOfParliament
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A Lyke Wake Dirge for All Hallow’s Eve - fire and fleet and candle-light, and the earth receive thy soul.
#LykeWakeDirge #traditional
Lyke Wake Dirge
A re-working of an old traditional song.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
For #TombTuesday -
The Whispering Knights (oil on canvas 30cm x 30 cm) - the remnant of a Neolithic burial chamber, and part of the Rollright Stones complex in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
#WhisperingKnights #RollrightStones
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The King Stone (oil on canvas 30cm x 30 cm) - part of the Rollright Stones complex in Oxfordshire, for #StandingStoneSunday .At midsummer, unruly youths would partake of cakes and ale, and watch fairies dance around the stone at the dead of night.
#KingStone #RollrightStones
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
An autumnal walk in Wayland Woods, in deepest darkest Norfolk where the ghosts of abandoned children roam. Here be fungi...
#WaylandWoods #FlyAgaric #mushrooms
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Spangle gall on an oak leaf
#SpangleGall
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fungal growths in Whitlingham Woods on the outskirts of Norwich
#WhitlinghamWoods #Norwich #mushrooms #fungi
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Pentre Ifan, the remnants of a probable Neolithic burial chamber near Newport in North Wales, for #TombTuesday (mixed media drawing on A2 paper).
#PentreIfan #dowsing #neolithic
October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
October 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Age of Twilight - an incidental soundscape by sanderson & sanderson, which I helped out with. The piece is inspired by the landscape of Sutton Hoo and Wuffinga-land, and features field recordings of a red deer rut on Westleton Heath.
#SuttonHoo #reddeerrutting #Beowulf #Wuffingas
The Age of Twilight
by sanderson & sanderson on hearthis.at | gramophonics, Sutton Hoo, red deer rut, Wuffingas, Soundscap
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October 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Dowsing at Avebury (oil on canvas) for #StandingStoneSunday

#Avebury #dowsing
October 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The dead of Cley next the Sea in North Norfolk
#StMargaretsChurch #CleyChurch #gravestones
October 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Curlew at Holme 2 Timber Circle, North Norfolk (oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm)
#seahenge #HolmeNextTheSea #curlew
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Two Curlew Ikons (oil and acrylic paint and saltmarsh mud on canvas 30cm x 30cm)
#curlews #saltmarsh
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Umbra sumus - Bant’s Carn, a Bronze Age burial chamber on St. Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. For #TombTuesday with minutes to spare…
#BantsCarn #IslesofScilly #SaintMarys
September 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Martincross, the house in Sheringham where Ralph Vaughan Williams lived in 1919. Ernest Shackleton used to live there too, as did the author and dramatist Patrick Hamilton, though not at the same time.
#martincross #sheringham #VaughanWilliams
September 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For #StandingStoneSunday - West Kennet Avenue at Avebury, with cows
#WestKennetAvenue #Avebury
September 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Two more foliate heads from the cloisters at Norwich Cathedral. You are being watched...
#foliateheads #norwichcathedral #roofbosses
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Foliate heads in the cloisters at Norwich Cathedral. You are being watched...
#foliateheads #greenmen #norwichcathedral
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A couple of sketches of the cairns of Cairnholy in Dumfries and Galloway for #TombTuesday.

#cairnholy #chamberedcairns
September 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The autumnal equinox is one of the melancholic corners of the year - the summer’s over, the nights are getting longer, and the beer’s getting darker - and there’s sense of time slipping away. This is a piece I recorded a few years about how we mark out the passing of time over the span of our lives.
The blink of an eye, the beat of a heart
Listen to The blink of an eye, the beat of a heart by Jack Heathen #np on #SoundCloud
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September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Avebury standing stone guarded by sheep
#StandingStoneSunday #Avebury
September 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Castlerigg Stone Circle in the Lake District, photographed using a 1953 Elioflex camera. The site probably served a religious and social function - a high place to be nearer to the old gods perhaps, and also close to a neolithic axe factory.
#CastleriggStoneCircle
September 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This was taken a long time ago, but if my memory serves me right it’s the interior of Nether Largie South cairn at Kilmartin Glen. It’s a wonderful place…
#TombTuesday #kilmartinglen #NetherLargieSouth
September 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The great and the good at Oxburgh Hall, near King's Lynn
#oxburghhall
September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM