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Charlotte Smithson
@charlottesmithson.bsky.social
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Environmental Artist | Designer | Maker | Nature Swooner | Meditator | Vegan | Word Lover | Yoga-er | Salt & Pepper Tofu Aficionado | Mcr UK |She/Her 🌱🌎🧶📸💚

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Just leaving this here…

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An graph that shows a comparison of manduse for pasture and crop land. 5 variants are shown with scenarios for: the current global diet | variants where no beef or mutton are eaten | no beef, mutton or dairy | no red meat, poultry, dairy with wggs or fish only | Vegan The graph shows that a global vegan diet requires 1 billion ha vs the current global diet that requires 4.13 billion.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Excited to be opening my solo show Emotional Geographies at The Art House in Wakefield tonight - an immersive arborical installation inspired by trees my Grampa planted in the city in the 1950s 💚🌳🌱

#charlottesmithson #thearthouse #wakefield
In the background black lettering on a white wall titled ‘Charlotte Smithson - Emotional Geographies’ is being installed by a man with his back to the room. In the foreground are the variegated leaves of a cornus tree on a wooden plinth in the gallery
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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June 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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New studio bestie 💚

#photography #horsechestnut #studioview
Textured leaves of a European Horse-Chestnut sapling
May 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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My VIP studio guests are taking over… 🌱🌳

#artinstallation #wip #charlottesmithson
A white ceiling and walls behind a cluster of tree saplings in the foreground
May 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Lovely Lisbon light

#photography #lightandshade #charlottesmithson
The shadows of tree branches and roof terrace railings are cast across an exterior white limewashed wall
April 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I’m cooking up some dreamy projects in my studio at the moment and looking forward to sharing details about a big installation I’ll be creating this summer which explores my love of trees 🌱🌳🌍

#installationartist #photography #charlottesmithson #trees #thyme
The woody stems of thyme, against their shadows in the background
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Desky details from my studio ☀️

#artiststudio #shadows #photography
A white sheet of paper lies on a white workbench, portrait. A blue pencil and a pair of metal scissors sit to the right. At the top of the image the edge of a glass vase can be seen. The shadow of flat leaf parsley is cast across the paper and desktop.
March 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Hello #bluesky 💙
A clear blue sky overhead a row of leafless trees in spring light
March 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A field a yellow sunflowers in the evening light, while a pale pink sunset illuminates the cloudy sky overhead
March 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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There’s sun in the studio 🪄
The mdf surface of a workshop bench with geometric shapes made by shadows, work marks and piles of materials. A sheet of wood cuts across the top right of the image. Streaks of wood oil mark the bench top. Shadows from the window ledge and piles of substrate out of view create lines and triangular shadows across the top of the image.
March 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Hello Mars, Jupiter and Uranus 🥰

#planetsparade #jupiter #mars #nightsky #planets
White dots on a blackground surrounded by a series of white flecks. Mars is a more prominent dot to the top left. Jupiter is a bright white dot in the centre. Uranus is a faint dot to the lower right hand side of the image and very faint (i think)
February 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Light I saw today…

#photography #photooftheday #welcomeback #sunshine
Diagonal shadows across a white painted wooden shelf create triangles and blocks of light and shade
February 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My first flower of the year 🥰 After weeks of encouraging words my precarious Picotee has suddenly emerged…

#amaryllis
A solitary amaryllis flower head with 5 white petals with fragile deep pink outlines and freckles, with yellow stamen emerging from the centre. The single stem holds two unopened flowers behind the front facing flower which has bloomed. Photographed against a white background.
February 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A quiet corner of my greenhouse…

#photography
The surface of a window which is marked with twig scratches and snail trails in the remnants of white greenhouse shade paint.
February 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A pink sky reward after closing my laptop for the day 🩷

#friday
The silhouette of leafless winter trees against a pink evening sky
February 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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One of the drawings from my Surrender series. A collection of letters to moorlands I’ve been working on. Handwritten in heather charcoal collected from scorched grouse moors in North Yorkshire

#surrender #charlottesmithson #northyorkshire #studioviews #womenartists #art #drawing #meditations
An off white sheet of paper with the shadows of window ledge objects casts across its surface in the low winter afternoon sun. In the top right of the image is a geometric block of illegible overlaid handwriting in charcoal. The subtle shapes of lettering can be made out from the negative spaces that expose the paper beneath
February 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Just found my notes folder 🥹
February 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Last light in my suntrap studio space. This time last year at Arteles Creative Centre, Finland

#arteles #artistinresidence #charlottesmithson #suomi #goldenhour #photography #studiowall
A white wall with paper and a plant stem taped to the surface. Artists tools and equipment fill a box to the bottom left. The late afternoon sun casts a warm glow across the artist studio scene and the shadow of a pot plant centres the image
January 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#lichen #swaledale #northyorkshire
The close up details of a stone wall built in swaledale, North Yorkshire. Irregular stones, covered in mottled white lichen are neatly stacked to create a field boundary.
January 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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*swoon

#lichen #photography
A lichen covered stone illuminated in gold winter sun. The lichen’s texture is mottled and irregular in a white and pale grey colour and there is one orangey yellow lichen splodge towards the top.
January 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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This verdant little scene just popped up on my phone and reminded me of the seasons to come 💚 Snapped on a beautiful summers day at Sissinghurst while I was installing my sculpture work in 2022
#photography #sissinghurst #nationaltrust #charlottesmithson #anotherworldthanthis #installationartist
One single poppy, deep burgundy in colour emerging from a textural cottage garden, against the green background of trees and hedgerows
January 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sambucas up on my studio wall. Photographed on 35mm and developed in tea made with rosemary, thyme and rain water 📸

#photography #35mm #alternativeprocess #charlottesmithson #artist #ecoartist 🌍🌱💚
A white piece of paper stuck with brown tape to a white wall. The paper is giclee printed with the image of a tree’s branches against the sky in black and white. Little clusters of berries and jaggered leaves revealing is a sambucas.
January 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Its become a beautifully brittle end of the week here in Manchester ❄️

#monochrome #photography #manchester #winter
Snow dusted trees in evening freezing fog. To the left hand side a street light glows deep orange
January 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Hello #bluesky
Snow dusted winter trees with an expanse of snow with animal tracks in the foreground. A faint hint of blue is in the sky
January 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM