Alan Parker
@englishsettlement.bsky.social
Bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
Proudly a Memorial Device ANT
Proudly a Memorial Device ANT
Some people put the heating on when winter rears its ugly head. Not me.
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Some people put the heating on when winter rears its ugly head. Not me.
The Egg Thief
(thieving Skua)
Oil on canvas 80cm x 118cm
(thieving Skua)
Oil on canvas 80cm x 118cm
September 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The Egg Thief
(thieving Skua)
Oil on canvas 80cm x 118cm
(thieving Skua)
Oil on canvas 80cm x 118cm
Annual ‘big clean’ of my oil painting kit. So some of this stuff has been with me for 30 years and more. Cornelissen in London and Salvini in Florence have been deep in my pocket over the years, but the quality has always been superb.
August 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Annual ‘big clean’ of my oil painting kit. So some of this stuff has been with me for 30 years and more. Cornelissen in London and Salvini in Florence have been deep in my pocket over the years, but the quality has always been superb.
Wow.
I’m just going to leave this image for you to absorb.
My favourite painting too; Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride. Culled from www.instagram.com/p/DNoiZ_0RsX...
I’m just going to leave this image for you to absorb.
My favourite painting too; Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride. Culled from www.instagram.com/p/DNoiZ_0RsX...
August 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wow.
I’m just going to leave this image for you to absorb.
My favourite painting too; Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride. Culled from www.instagram.com/p/DNoiZ_0RsX...
I’m just going to leave this image for you to absorb.
My favourite painting too; Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride. Culled from www.instagram.com/p/DNoiZ_0RsX...
Whitby, whose other level seagulls first inspired Hitchcock to make The Birds!
August 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Whitby, whose other level seagulls first inspired Hitchcock to make The Birds!
Pink Moon
Gouache 15” x 12”
Gouache 15” x 12”
August 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Pink Moon
Gouache 15” x 12”
Gouache 15” x 12”
Approaching Whitby from the sea
Gouache, 18” x 15”
Gouache, 18” x 15”
August 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Approaching Whitby from the sea
Gouache, 18” x 15”
Gouache, 18” x 15”
Reposted by Alan Parker
Hi it’s Chloe, I have added these four original artworks to my website! (For sale)
Monkeys and hearts, frog looking on, William Blake and the Tyger, the eye tree. If you share this post I will be chuffed.
www.chloecumming.com
Monkeys and hearts, frog looking on, William Blake and the Tyger, the eye tree. If you share this post I will be chuffed.
www.chloecumming.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hi it’s Chloe, I have added these four original artworks to my website! (For sale)
Monkeys and hearts, frog looking on, William Blake and the Tyger, the eye tree. If you share this post I will be chuffed.
www.chloecumming.com
Monkeys and hearts, frog looking on, William Blake and the Tyger, the eye tree. If you share this post I will be chuffed.
www.chloecumming.com
Lincoln cliff after a downpour
Oil on canvas 18” x 22”
Oil on canvas 18” x 22”
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Lincoln cliff after a downpour
Oil on canvas 18” x 22”
Oil on canvas 18” x 22”
Reposted by Alan Parker
The Scot from Paisley who photographed The Bear - way back in the 1880s! My bit on the great William Notman @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social @englishsettlement.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
William Notman and the invention of Canada | The Observer
The pioneering Scot documented the wildernesses of the young nation through the embryonic medium of photography. But it was in the studio that his true g...
observer.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Scot from Paisley who photographed The Bear - way back in the 1880s! My bit on the great William Notman @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social @englishsettlement.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
A Lost Sheep
A3 watercolour on heavy rag paper
A3 watercolour on heavy rag paper
July 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A Lost Sheep
A3 watercolour on heavy rag paper
A3 watercolour on heavy rag paper
The Good Shepherd
A2 watercolour
A2 watercolour
July 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Good Shepherd
A2 watercolour
A2 watercolour
It’s that time of year again, when Zippy disappears wherever he runs
July 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It’s that time of year again, when Zippy disappears wherever he runs
Reposted by Alan Parker
July 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The North Sea
Oil on panel 75cm x 100cm
Oil on panel 75cm x 100cm
July 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The North Sea
Oil on panel 75cm x 100cm
Oil on panel 75cm x 100cm
Cats and gulls on a fish bin
A3 drawing
A3 drawing
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Cats and gulls on a fish bin
A3 drawing
A3 drawing
Trawlermen dressing fish
A2 ink drawing
A2 ink drawing
July 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Trawlermen dressing fish
A2 ink drawing
A2 ink drawing
Whitby
A2 watercolour
A2 watercolour
July 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Whitby
A2 watercolour
A2 watercolour
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 20: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887.
Day 20: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887.
June 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 20: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887.
Day 20: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887.
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 19: The Avenue at Middleharnis by Meindert Hobbema, 1689.
Day 19: The Avenue at Middleharnis by Meindert Hobbema, 1689.
June 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 19: The Avenue at Middleharnis by Meindert Hobbema, 1689.
Day 19: The Avenue at Middleharnis by Meindert Hobbema, 1689.
Reposted by Alan Parker
Untitled, 1965 by Cheung Yee (1936-2019) currently in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Woodcut of the reversed view of an oracle bone's voids and solid spaces.
Woodcut of the reversed view of an oracle bone's voids and solid spaces.
June 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Untitled, 1965 by Cheung Yee (1936-2019) currently in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Woodcut of the reversed view of an oracle bone's voids and solid spaces.
Woodcut of the reversed view of an oracle bone's voids and solid spaces.
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 18: Untitled Dreamtime painting by Nyunmiti Burton, 2022
Day 18: Untitled Dreamtime painting by Nyunmiti Burton, 2022
June 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 18: Untitled Dreamtime painting by Nyunmiti Burton, 2022
Day 18: Untitled Dreamtime painting by Nyunmiti Burton, 2022
A grey horse in a stock yard seen driving to work across the Fens.
30 minute watercolour done on the hop!
30 minute watercolour done on the hop!
June 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
A grey horse in a stock yard seen driving to work across the Fens.
30 minute watercolour done on the hop!
30 minute watercolour done on the hop!
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 17: Landscape with a Man and a Camel by Sidney Nolan, 1966.
Day 17: Landscape with a Man and a Camel by Sidney Nolan, 1966.
June 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 17: Landscape with a Man and a Camel by Sidney Nolan, 1966.
Day 17: Landscape with a Man and a Camel by Sidney Nolan, 1966.
what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
June 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?