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Kerrie Ann Gardner
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Artist, writer, naturalist, photographer and wonderer. Enchanted by the natural world but angered by our treatment of it. Always happier outside. Often found gazing at the sky.


Website: www.kerrieanngardner.co.uk
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Lovely walk up to St. Catherine’s Chapel this afternoon.
The path leading up to St. Catherine’s Chapel, near Abbotsbury in Dorset. The chapel is silhouetted against a pink, sunset sky.
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Give yourself a present & scroll through the over 8500 posted in #ArtAdventCalendar this month.

The largest media event on Bluesky (probably)

(And if you're a new artist just joining, there's 660 artists you can get to know)
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 14d
You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts.

I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Dec 3
I mean...just look at this. It goes on and on and on.

#ArtAdventCalendar is amazing and you really should check it out.
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Day twenty-four of #ArtAdventCalendar

The final artwork I’m sharing is one which means a lot to me because it’s inspired by my first paragliding lesson, and taking up paragliding is without a doubt the BEST thing I’ve done this year.

Merry Christmas everyone!
Paragliding in West Dorset at sunset, an illustration created in soft pastels. Above a scrubby hill the sun is setting amid a rosy-pink sky, as a lone paraglider glides past.
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Day twenty-three of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here is a coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in the snow.
A coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in snow. Drawn on warm grey paper. There are snowflakes falling, and the hare is in the bottom right of the image, hunkered down.
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Day twenty-two of #ArtAdventCalendar

Tonight, here is a soft pastel painting of a winter sunrise, inspired by a sunrise I watched a few years ago.
A soft pastel painting of a winter sunrise. In the bottom right of the image is a row of three silhouetted trees. Above the trees the clouds, which run diagonally across the page from top left to lower right, burn bright pink.
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Day twenty-one of #ArtAdventCalendar and a happy solstice to everyone!

I said I’d look through the archives for my contributions this year, so here is a painting which must be about twelve years old! It was inspired by a wild-eyed hare I saw on a walk to Durdle Door in Dorset.
A painting of a hare on the cliffs above a rock archway called Durdle Door in Dorset. To the right of the image, a full moon is rising above the archway and the sea. To the left is the hare, sat in long grasses and wildflowers.
December 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Day twenty of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here’s a pair of miniature woodcock (made out of clay) reading all about themselves in my Observer’s Book of Birds.
A pair of woodcock, sculpted out of air drying clay and intricately painted. They are positioned so that they appear to be looking at the painting of a woodcock in the Observer’s Book of Birds.
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.
Five stones, all painted with ravens on them.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Day eighteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

A Fly Agaric painted on a stone. Reindeer eat this mushroom and experience a high without the nasty side effects suffered by humans if we do the same. Apparently this causes them to jump, dash and dance about, which might explain Santa’s ‘flying’ reindeer. 🍄
A Fly Agaric mushroom (the well-known red mushroom with white spots) painted on a pebble. Bonus info: if you want to experience the hallucinations caused by ingesting this mushroom without the nasty side effects, you can feed a reindeer some Fly Agatics and drink their urine instead.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data 🤗 🔭🧪
👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/
👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!
A list of planets next to a labelled image of a dwarf planet (Pluto).
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.
The Seven Whistlers, here portrayed as a flock of seven curlews flying together on the night of a full moon. They fly from right to left, above a silver loch and a little cottage on the shore.
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Day sixteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a soft pastel painting of my local river in the depths of winter.
A soft pastel painting of a river overhung by many spindly trees in winter. The sky is grey, the water is silver and the trees are brown, some of them delicately lined with verdant green moss.
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.
A watercolour painting of a Wren. The bird is perched on the ground and surrounded by blue Forget-Me-Not flowers.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Day fourteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here’s a rook, painted with black ink. Unfinished as yet.
A painting of a rook in black ink. The bird is flying from the right to the left with its wings up and its feet lifted and pointing forwards, as if it is coming in to land.
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Make sure you have a peek if you’ve got clear skies!
sjbastro.bsky.social Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 24d
The peak of the #Geminids meteor shower occurs this evening into tomorrow morning. You could see 30 to 40 meteors per hour from a dark location. The Moon doesn't rise until around 03:00 UT so won't interfere for most of the night. Wishing you clear skies for meteor spotting! #Astronomy #Space
Stellarium graphic showing the location of the Geminids meteor shower radiant on the night of 13-14 December 2025.
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Day thirteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here is a Dalmatian pelican sculpture I made out of clay many years ago.
A Dalmatian pelican sculpture which is made out of air drying clay. It is painted in acrylic paint (the predominant colours are white, grey and orange) and it is stood in the palm of my hand.
December 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Day twelve of #ArtAdventCalendar.

I’ve taken up paragliding this year and I absolutely love it! This is a soft pastel painting of a paraglider flying beneath cumulus clouds.
A soft pastel painting showing a blue sky filled with cumulus clouds and a paraglider with a red wing flying beneath them.
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Day eleven of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here are some Christmas cards I made for my friends and family a few years ago to celebrate winter. I know it’s not everyone’s favourite season, but up in the northern hemisphere it’s a brilliant time to gaze at the stars. ✨
A selection of nine Christmas cards, with three in each row, all depicting night or crepuscular scenes in winter, and drawn with soft pastels.
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Day ten (!) of #ArtAdventCalendar - December is zooming by.

Here’s a painted stone from a few years ago with one of my all time favourite birds - a nightjar.
A warm-grey stone with a portrait of a nightjar painted on it. Behind the nightjar is a full moon. A sprig of foliage reaches in from the left-hand-side. Around the edge of the stone are some other names for the nightjar, such as: evechur, gobble rach and Jenny spinner.
December 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Day nine of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight I am sharing this miniature mallard duck I made out of clay.
A tiny female mallard duck made out of clay and intricately painted. She is held between my thumb and forefinger.
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Day eight of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kestrel I drew for my mum.
On off-white paper is a coloured pencil drawing of a kestrel. The bird is a female, and she is perched on a wooden post. She looks over her shoulder towards something the viewer cannot see.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Already a week in! I briefly tried paper cutting a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Here’s one of the scenes I cut out.
Paper cut art. Cut out of black paper is a scene of two storks displaying to each other from their nest on the top of a chimney. My hand holds the paper cut up against an off-white background.
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Day six of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Today’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher.
A coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher in flight. The bird has its wings spread and is facing towards the right.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Day five of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a stone I painted a reeeeeally long time ago.
On a light grey pebble is a painting of a rising full moon with a silhouetted hare in front of it. The colours are monochrome, and there are lots of stars in the sky. There are silhouetted trees of either side of the hare.
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Day four of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a pen and pencil drawing of a woodcock (one of my favourite birds) flying out to forage as the full moon rises behind a distant hill.
This monochrome image depicts a woodcock, flying from the right to the left, over a field which is bordered by trees. In the background, above a distant hill, a full moon rises.
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM