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Martyn Lucas
@martynlucas.bsky.social
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Artist, Curator, Educator
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Cold and white here today in Leigh #brrr
Mural of Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) in Leigh with snow in foreground and white cloudy sky
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Winter Portal ⚪️

#photography 📷
A digital collage. A colour photograph of winter trees on on a foggy grey day in low light. A circular photo of bare tree branches reflected in a puddle is overlaid onto the photo as if balancing on the horizontal branch across the photo.
December 29, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Happy New Year everyone! Here's a snap shot of some things I get up to on a Sunday morning in the studio #studiotime #collage #fragileearth
December 31, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice folks❄️
#Yuletide
Black & White double exposure photo. Looking down at the top of a circular tree stump in a snowy hedgerow & a view of bare trees with arching branches covered in snow, almost like a bower. The circular & flat surface of the tree stump serves to frame the image overlaid of the avenue of snowy trees.
December 21, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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turnpikegallery.bsky.social
Our gallery is closed after today until Tuesday 7th January, but you can still view HOME: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words on the outside of our building. #openeyegallery #leigh #wigan #ukraine #photography #poetry
Exterior of Turnpike Centre building with photographs and poems in the windows
December 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Ever fallen (in love)... #windythismorning
Fallen Christmas tree on town square Christmas tree blown over by wind in front of a town hall
December 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Peter Doig, Pink Snow, 1991

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136999
Gift of David Teiger
October 26, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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paulwelsh89.bsky.social
Camille Corot
Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau
"Corot painted this study in the summer of 1832 or 1833 in Bas-Bréau, a section of Fontainebleau forest that was famous for its immense oak trees." (The Met)
December 15, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Herbstabend auf Alsen, Emil Nolde 1903
Herbstabend auf Alsen, Emil Nolde 1903
December 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Moody #SkySunday
B&W image looking across a frozen over lake with a partial tree in the top right hand corner and a moody dark sky.
December 15, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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'Wild Pool'
Mixed media on Paper
Private Collection.
December 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Landscape Dialogues.

#photography #BNW 📷
#Ideasfordrawings
B&W digital photography collage. Two photos adjacent to each other. One third of the photo is looking up at the branches of a bare oak tree against a cloudy sky. The other a close shot of an oak leaf balanced upright on a curved branch with woodland trees blurred in the background. The curve of the branch lines up with the thick branch of the adjacent photo. A visual dialogue.
December 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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The Pearls. Collage from discarded art books. #titian #coello #studiosunday #collage
Collage of old master image fragments with a hand and pearls
December 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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onlyindevon.co.uk
Feeling a strong need to go and clamber around some Welsh slate quarries in the fog...

Dinorwig, January 2022
A working level within the huge Dinorwig slate quarry in Eryri / Snowdonia. Jagged slate and looming mist make it resemble an inhospitable alien planet. A solitary bare conifer and some scrubby grasses the only colour in an otherwise monochrome and darkly shadowed scene.
December 12, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Involuntary painting ✨

📷 #noticing
Abstract detail of the side of a metal skip, badly scratched and rusting. The sunlight hits the top half aligning with a horizontal seam in the metal, the rest in shadow. The gouges & scratches seem like drawn gestural marks & the horizontal seam & light give the impression of a landscape.
December 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Father Christmas is out again!
Another year survived in the loft, a Christmas miracle.
53years of dragging that lolly stick sleigh😭
Bravo Martyn on your childhood skills☺️ @martynlucas.bsky.social
A homemade worn & battered Father Christmas made from a toilet roll, crepe paper & cotton wool dragging a lolly stick sleigh with tiny presents. He looks like his life is a misery.
December 8, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Congratulations to children from Sacred Heart school who have contributed drawings to Keely Hodgkinson's plaque on our Wall of Fame in Leigh. An 'Our Art Neighbourhood' project with Leigh Neighbours started four years ago, Keely is the 15th person to be included in the mural. #communityart #leigh
children standing in front of a plaque which includes their drawings of olympic athlete Keely Hodgkinson
December 7, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Shoals of Autumn leaves 🍂

#photography #noticing 📷
Looking into the water of a pond. Many yellow and gold autumn leaves under the surface of the water as if swimming fishes. Nearby trees golden from the sun, overhanging bare branches and a blue sky are reflected in the water.
December 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Simon Denis, Landscape near Rome during a Storm
Flemish, ca. 1786–1806
"Denis painted the majority of his informal nature studies out of doors. Notations on the back of this example, however, indicate that he based it on a drawing that he had previously made in the countryside near Rome while observing the phenomenon of passing rain accompanied by a rainbow. The horses and rider fleeing the storm are a motif borrowed from the seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin." (The Met)
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Peter Doig, Daytime Astronomy, 1997
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120435
Presented by the artist and Charles Booth-Clibborn 1998
October 23, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
If you’re looking for a fabulous gift this Christmas, I can’t recommend Nick’s book enough @northernmailman.bsky.social
Packed with nostalgia, wit & genuine relatable voices. Loved it!
paulaflucas.bsky.social Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · Sep 9
Excited to receive my book from the excellent @northernmailman.bsky.social 🌟
Thanks again Nick!
A table with a book titled ‘to rise in the dark’ Zine & signed postcard by Nick J Brown.
December 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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simoncroberts.com
It’s tough being an artist these days, as confirmed by this new research published in Artnet:

U.K. Artists’ Earnings Dropped 40 Percent Since 2010.

Some 80 percent of artists surveyed reported that their earnings were “unstable” or “very unstable.”

news.artnet.com/art-world/uk...
U.K. Artists' Earnings Dropped 40 Percent Since 2010. Will They Stick Around? | Artnet News
A new U.K. artist income survey from Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (CREATe) found a 40 percent median income drop since 2010.
news.artnet.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Landscape Dialogues.

#photography #BNW 📷
#Ideasfordrawings
Two B&W photos joined together. The top photo of a telegraph pole by a hedgerow & low cumulus cloud catching the light in a clear sky. Below that an abstract detail of the lines & swirls in a frozen puddle, a darker section lines up to the bottom of telegraph pole as if one photo.
November 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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slipway

(day 91)

#photography #OneCameraOneLens #photooftheday #365project #nature

www.clcart.co.uk/post/one-a-d...
A red kayak rests on a sandy beach, angled towards the water's edge. The water is calm and clear, with a gentle gradient from light blue to dark blue. The beach is pebbled, and a small concrete structure extends into the water. The sky is overcast and pale.
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Trees in Fog, Chile, 1939 by John Swope
tall trees shrouded in fog. a tiny car on the road below adds scale
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM