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Here for civilised discussions in breathable air. TwXscapee, Brefugee, EUropean, lifelong Francophile & creative, dreaming of a better world as I forge my art path. Art is part of the human spirit & crosses borders.
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#Autumn
#BlueSkyArtShow

October 2025 in Provence 🍂🍁😎
Looking up into fiery orange & red autumnal leaves against a sunny bright blue Provençal sky. Photo: October 2025.
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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#Glow
#BlueSkyArtShow

My bowl of fruit.
Watercolour painting
Loose, abstract watercolour painting of bowl of glowing red, orange and purple fruit, against a deep golden yellow backdrop.
October 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow

‘Autumn approaching’
Watercolour

A painting I made as colours started changing along an avenue of trees in Provençal countryside at about this time of year.
A watercolour painting depicting colours changing to autumnal hues of oranges and gold along an avenue of trees in the Provençal countryside. The sunlight casts purple shadows of trees across a silvery grey road.
September 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
paintingmyway.bsky.social
#Skyline
#BlueSkyArtShow

Distant skyline over sand dunes, inspired by memories of travelling in a bleached desert under hot sun.
Acrylic on board
Abstract acrylic painting of distant sand dunes against the skyline under hot sun. The landscape is sandy coloured, textured, flat and bleached out in the foreground.
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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All the colours you #GetOutside at this time of summer in Provence… lavenders, greens, oranges & that cerulean blue sky!
#BlueSkyArtShow

‘Tapis Provençal 1’
Mixed media abstract landscape painting
An abstract painting evoking the bright greens, lavenders and oranges of summer fields in Provence under a bright cerulean blue sky.
June 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#Vibrant
#BlueSkyArtShow

Pink sage, lavender and poppies fill nearby countryside with vibrant colour in early summer.
Abstract landscape painting - pastel
An abstract landscape painting: horizontal bands of pinks, lavenders and reds suggest bright flowers in fields under a blue early summer sky in Provence. Painted with pastels.
June 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Taken at Salon Côté Sud 2025 on Friday. This year’s theme is Ateliers & Artisanat in honour of Cézanne, who is being celebrated in Aix en Provence this summer. Symbolised by the paintbrushes suspended beneath the awning.

#Underneath
#BlueSkyArtShow
Paintbrushes suspended beneath an awning in front of a wall painted in yellow & terracotta. A potted palm tree stands in the foreground.
June 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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After colour, texture is one of my favourite things when making a painting! This piece was inspired by the rusty colours of an abandoned railway carriage seen one summer in a field in south west France (see photos in comments)
Mixed media & collage

#Texture
#BlueSkyArtShow
A collage painting made from superimposed pieces of cut & torn paper & card, with shapes & patterns embossed &/or painted in teal blues & rust colours. Inspired by a rusting railway carriage abandoned in field in south west France.
May 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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tanjabueltmann.net Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · May 12
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
paintingmyway.bsky.social
Another one: taking a line for a walk across an abstract landscape in my sketchbook.
Mixed media & collage.

#Lines
#BlueSkyArtShow
#sketchbook
#drawing
Lines drawn freely with graphite & dark teal wax pastel over loose green watercolour & acrylic paint marks & two pieces of collaged paper (one brown, one green & blue) & some rubbed in charcoal. Sketchbook page, suggestive of a green hilly landscape.
May 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This one’s a bit quirky! Paintings lined up in the studio ready for an exhibition…

#Lines
#BlueSkyArtShow
A photograph of a series of paintings lined up ready for an exhibition. The angle of the photo taken from above shows the edges of the paintings forming a series of lines slightly angled across the image.
May 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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‘L’arrivée du printemps’
Mixed media abstract landscape painting.

#Green
#BlueSkyArtShow
Mixed media abstract landscape painting evoking textured layers of fields in a variety of greens in the foreground & middle distance, melding into light blues suggestive of the sea & sky on the horizon.
May 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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1 May, French style…
#muguet #le1mai #portebonheur
A sprig of white lily of the valley flowers, growing between leaves spattered with raindrops. A traditional gift in France on 1 May, bringing good luck.
May 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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‘Distant Shores’
My mixed media painting when the possibility of visiting a relative living far away was but a daydream.

#Dream
#BlueSkyArtShow
A mixed media painting of a seascape. The sky at sunrise in shades of pink & pale ochres, above the horizon line suggesting a distant land, is reflected in a sea of blues and violets.
April 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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kajakallas.bsky.social
Heartbreaking scenes from Sumy this morning as residents gathered for Palm Sunday only to be met by Russian missiles.

Horrific example of Russia intensifying attacks while Ukraine has accepted an unconditional ceasefire.

My thoughts are with the Ukrainian people today.
April 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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strategywoman.bsky.social
I want you to realise the scale.

UNESCO estimates that the damage caused
by russian aggression since 2014 to Ukrainian cultural heritage exceeds $2.6 billion.

This looting of Ukrainian museums is believed to be the largest since the Second World War.
April 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Absolutely damning.

Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.
brexitbin.bsky.social Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Apr 9
In case you missed it ...
Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!
April 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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jacquep.bsky.social
Marine Le Pen sentenced to 4 years in prison, 2 suspended, and 5 years of ineligibility with immediate application, jeopardizing her candidacy for the 2027 presidential election.

When a prison sentence is given in France, it may not apply immediately but Le Pen could well end up behind bars.
March 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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musicbunny.bsky.social
The World Cup 2026

Hosted by USA, Canada, Mexico 😳
🍿🍿☕️☕️☕️🍿☕️

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2026 FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia
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March 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Windows overlooking the Vieux Port, Marseille earlier this week. Loving the blues here! And how the sky was really reflecting this #BlueSkyArtsShow
#Windows
Looking up at stone buildings with pale blue shuttered windows against a deep blue sky in Marseille. Part of a dark blue folded parasol is also visible against the buildings.
March 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Spring colour from the garden for #InternationalWomensDay
💜🤍💚
Photos of daffodils and of crocuses. The purple and white crocuses with their green leaves reference the three colours symbolic of the Suffragette movement, for International Women’s Day.
March 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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musicbunny.bsky.social
More 1939 than 1984

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_bo...
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
We are living in dangerous times.

Europe‘s security is threatened in a very real way.

Today I present ReArm Europe.

A plan for a safer and more resilient Europe ↓

europa.eu/!MFPVMC
March 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump has utterly changed the rules of engagement. World leaders must learn this – and quickly | Simon Tisdall
The world’s most admired democracy is being held hostage by a clique of far-right thugs. It would be a mistake to placate them, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM