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Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
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Lonely postbox, Isle of Yell, Shetland, 2004, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Agricultural Czechoslovakian Matchbox Labels, 1971
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#matchboxlabels #illustration #graphicdesign
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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'Christmas Rose.' (1923) Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers, endless, boundless. timeless pictures. 'I find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty, yet there is hidden within a deeper beauty,' he once wrote.
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Snow Removal, Dorchester Street, Montreal
Nora Collyer
c. 1930
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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6 Mile Beach in the winter. #cloud #mountain That white line is the train tracks.
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11
‘Mam Tor’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
If this Rothko lived in my house I would give it a whole room all to itself.
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Orange and Tan), 1954
pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas
In the home or Mrs. Enid Annenberg Haupt in her home, with a baroque Louis XV console, a pottery urn, a Marino Marini bronze and various orchids (Photo by Horst P. Horst/Conde Nast)
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Orange and Tan), 1954
pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas
overall: 206.4 x 160.6 cm (81 1/4 x 63 1/4
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'Kitchen Range.' (1984) As artists grow older, they can fall from fashion, but age also brings gravitas if we have the imagination to see it. Anthony Eyton turned 102 earlier this year, and still, he paints compositions, which flood scenes with light and atmosphere.
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Between season #colour, at #dusk. #december
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Winter trees with heron overseer.
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Map of the heavens, featuring the Zodiac and the mansions of the Moon, by the Ottoman artist Ṣun'ī, from Luqmān's late 16th century universal history, Zubdat al-tawārīkh
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of a #Mouse
#AncientEgypt New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, c.1550–1295 BCE
Bone; L 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); W3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); H 1 cm (3/8 in.); Th. at head 0.5 cm (3/16 in.)
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December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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December. #snowing #forest
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Another of the sgraffito pieces
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Day 8: 'The street singer: a gramophone charioted in a perambulator seems the last and most sordid victory of the Age of Science.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day08
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 9: Star Tile

This star-shaped fritware tile was made in Iran in the 13th century. On the tile are two seated figures, dressed in richly patterned tunics and enjoying a drink together.

⭐ Star-shaped tile. 20 x 18.5 x 1.3cm. EA1978.1560
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Bayko was the first plastic construction toy, produced from 1933-1967. Museum Trustee, Phil, remembers being given this Bayko set when he was a boy in the 1950s. His collection grew thanks to several birthday and Chrismas presents.
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🍐 The Herefordshire pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears..
Hereford, [Eng.]Jakeman and Carver, 1876-85..

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December 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Nocturne: Labrador Gorge
Christine Koch
2011
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM