Anna Dillon
@annadillon.bsky.social
Landscapes. Paintings. Art. Wildlife, especially moths & butterflies. History, Heritage. Military history. British countryside. Walking. Chalk. Downland. Ridgeway.
http://www.annadillon.com/
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November 1918. The armies go home, leaving a devastated land behind them. Looking forward to reading Hugh Clout's "After the Ruins" on the restoration of the countryside of Northern France after four years of war 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
November 1918. The armies go home, leaving a devastated land behind them. Looking forward to reading Hugh Clout's "After the Ruins" on the restoration of the countryside of Northern France after four years of war 1/3
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Normal Town Sounds is a mini history of music-making Didcot and District I working on for the Didcot reading.....some surprises..it turning into the Berkshire Laurel Canyon! I now got Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Stills, Cat Stevens and Clapton partying at Aston Tirrold!
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Normal Town Sounds is a mini history of music-making Didcot and District I working on for the Didcot reading.....some surprises..it turning into the Berkshire Laurel Canyon! I now got Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Stills, Cat Stevens and Clapton partying at Aston Tirrold!
The 'Son of Aston Tirrold', which is my village. I had the pleasure of meeting him back in 2014. A quiet and fascinating man and a brilliant writer.
Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87
Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87
Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairs
The former Guardian journalist and historian Richard Gott has died aged 87.
Gott’s career at the Guardian began in 1964 and included spells as foreign correspondent, leader writer, features editor and literary editor. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The 'Son of Aston Tirrold', which is my village. I had the pleasure of meeting him back in 2014. A quiet and fascinating man and a brilliant writer.
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My seasonal picture of the ruins of St James, deep in The #Chilterns. This visit was with my favourite artist @annadillon.bsky.social and this perspective originally featured in our first Wessex Airscapes exhibition. #ruins
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My seasonal picture of the ruins of St James, deep in The #Chilterns. This visit was with my favourite artist @annadillon.bsky.social and this perspective originally featured in our first Wessex Airscapes exhibition. #ruins
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'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
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Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
1/1. After the Ruins by Hugh Clout was a book I studied for my First World War exhibition back in 2018. I was interested in learning how land can recover after war. Hugh's research focused on Northern France after WW1. 92% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed & over 60% of their infrastructure.
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
1/1. After the Ruins by Hugh Clout was a book I studied for my First World War exhibition back in 2018. I was interested in learning how land can recover after war. Hugh's research focused on Northern France after WW1. 92% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed & over 60% of their infrastructure.
Happy October everyone.
View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series.
Oil on board.
View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series.
Oil on board.
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Happy October everyone.
View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series.
Oil on board.
View from Lodge Hill from my Ridgeway Series.
Oil on board.
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It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x
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Afternoon Light The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
September 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Afternoon Light The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
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Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday
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St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
This book has just caught my eye from @peteralanross.bsky.social. Congratulations Peter. It's on my list.
Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old.
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This book has just caught my eye from @peteralanross.bsky.social. Congratulations Peter. It's on my list.
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Pendennis Castle, built in 1924, at Didcot.
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Pendennis Castle, built in 1924, at Didcot.
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Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition
Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition
Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury
She was considered an eccentric by some, eking out a frugal existence on a wild English moor, surviving off the land and exchanging her sketches of the countryside for meals.
But the first museum exhibition on the life and work of the largely forgotten nature writer and artist Hope Bourne highlights that her views on the environment, recycling, access to the countryside – even rewilding – were ahead of her time. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition
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Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor here with the plaster of Single Form 1961–4 at the Morris Singer foundry, London,1963
#womensart
#womensart
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor here with the plaster of Single Form 1961–4 at the Morris Singer foundry, London,1963
#womensart
#womensart
Harold James, CMG MBE OBE BSc FISP b.1890. Director, Rubber Research Institute KL. Swam to Pom Pong Island after “Tien Kwang” sinking. Interned at Padang, then at Bankinang Men’s Camp. Sumatra internee.
His camp was liberated on 22nd August. Died: 27.1.72. My Great-Grandfather.
#VJDay #VJ80Day
His camp was liberated on 22nd August. Died: 27.1.72. My Great-Grandfather.
#VJDay #VJ80Day
August 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Beautiful orange moon above the Berkshire Downs tonight. Reminds me of this painting I did called Glimmering Moon. The title comes from a John Masefield poem. This painting looks over Lollingdon Hill - home and loved landscape of Masefield back in 1914.
August 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Beautiful orange moon above the Berkshire Downs tonight. Reminds me of this painting I did called Glimmering Moon. The title comes from a John Masefield poem. This painting looks over Lollingdon Hill - home and loved landscape of Masefield back in 1914.
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Today is the last day to get out for the #BigButterflyCount! Where will you be doing yours?
If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK
Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚
📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin
If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK
Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚
📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin
August 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today is the last day to get out for the #BigButterflyCount! Where will you be doing yours?
If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK
Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚
📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin
If you haven't taken part yet, it's not too late. Download the free app or go to 👉 buff.ly/aQjHidK
Spend more time in nature while making a big difference. 💚
📷: Large White - Gilles San Martin
Fasinating thread by Philip about our cultivated landscapes since Neolithic times. I am working on a 10 metre panel of public art as part of The Springline Project. Depecting a 4 mile walk in Oxfordshire but also acting as a visual 'baseline' of 2025 for biodiversity, surveyed by scientists.
In 1956 some of this scene was already mainly memory in England, Corncrake had become rare with horse drawn mechanical reaper. Corncockle was a seed contaminant, better seed cleaning it was gone, Cornflower and other arable weeds like poppy started to be eradicated by 2,4-D introduced in 1946.
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Life in the Corn’ (Shell Guide, 1956)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
‘Life in the Corn’ (Shell Guide, 1956)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
August 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Fasinating thread by Philip about our cultivated landscapes since Neolithic times. I am working on a 10 metre panel of public art as part of The Springline Project. Depecting a 4 mile walk in Oxfordshire but also acting as a visual 'baseline' of 2025 for biodiversity, surveyed by scientists.
Phenomenal win by Our Lionesses. Congratulations.
Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England.
#Lionesses
Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England.
#Lionesses
July 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Phenomenal win by Our Lionesses. Congratulations.
Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England.
#Lionesses
Wondered if I'd ever painted a lion, then I remembered this chalk one in England.
#Lionesses
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16.3km walk up on the local Downs. Just beautiful. Connecting with these landscapes gladdens the heart and feeds the soul - it makes you appreciate them more
July 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
16.3km walk up on the local Downs. Just beautiful. Connecting with these landscapes gladdens the heart and feeds the soul - it makes you appreciate them more
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Sherd Jar with bird design by award-winning Native American, Hopi pottery artist Rainy Naha #WomensArt
July 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Sherd Jar with bird design by award-winning Native American, Hopi pottery artist Rainy Naha #WomensArt
A wonderful exhibition all about wasps, brought to us by my lovely friend @waspwoman.bsky.social and the team at UCL. Free and on until next January.
Do you need a little persuasion to appreciate wasps? Check out the #WorldFirst exhibition about wasps!! #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
Opens TOMORROW for 6 months! FREE!!
Wasp are #PestControllers #Pollinators #Diverse #socialites #hunters the original #Bee www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Opens TOMORROW for 6 months! FREE!!
Wasp are #PestControllers #Pollinators #Diverse #socialites #hunters the original #Bee www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
June 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A wonderful exhibition all about wasps, brought to us by my lovely friend @waspwoman.bsky.social and the team at UCL. Free and on until next January.
A short and lovely thread from Pat about where we are lucky enough to live.
8.5km walk. Just fabulous. Connecting with the landscapes that surround us .. the flora & fauna.
I love the path up to a fave local hill .. the white chalk of the path contrasting with the lush green of wheat leaves .. a meandering path forged by thousands of steps of others lost in their thoughts
I love the path up to a fave local hill .. the white chalk of the path contrasting with the lush green of wheat leaves .. a meandering path forged by thousands of steps of others lost in their thoughts
June 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A short and lovely thread from Pat about where we are lucky enough to live.