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Angela Hirons
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Liverpool-based DE-ENG literary translator & copy editor. Currently translating Simone Scharbert's 'Rosa in Grau' for Seagull Books. Art and photography. Jeg lærer norsk. www.angelahirons.com
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Enjoying this woman's hair the other evening. #minutiae
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Some more images from the superb ANNA ANCHER exhibition, currently taking place at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

She had a remarkable ability to capture light, especially in interior spaces. #Art #ArtSky #London
Two Little Girls being Taught How to Sew c1907 Oil on canvas The Girls' Sewing School in Skagen is a location that frequently appears within Ancher's art. The repetition of familiar motifs and subjects gave the artist a Scientific control for experimenting with different artistic approaches. Here, she concentrates on the pattern created by the light, falling from the right of the picture, and the shadows created by the plant life in the room. Profile Portrait of a Woman from Skagen c 1905 Oil on panel Ancher uses loose, expressive brushstrokes, building up her picture with thick daubs of colour, and no apparent outline. Head studies, like this, allowed her to experiment with the effects of light falling on the face. She may have been inspired by the Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606-69), who produced multiple pictures of his own face under different lighting conditions. Ancher greatly admired the seventeenth-century painter and, in her letters, wrote about how his works created a glow deep within her. Mrs Ane Brøndum in the Blue Room 1913 Oil on card Ancher depicts her mother, Ane Brøndum (1826-1916). The woman does not look out of the painting and appears lost in her own thoughts, light falling across her features. The artist had a very close relationship with her mother, whom she visited almost daily at Brøndum's Hotel. Ane managed the hotel, initially with her husband, Anna's father Erik (1820-90), and later with Anna's brothers and sisters. The artist made numerous portraits of her mother, set within the rooms of the hotel -each distinguished by their distinctive colours. Skagens Museum After the Labours of the Day 1917 Oil on canvas Ancher shows her sisters, Marie (1851-1941) and Hulda (1853-1935), exhausted at the end of a working day. The artist was close to her siblings, who played an important role in running Brøndum's Hotel. The image she presents suggests an intimate, unguarded moment, without pretence or varnish. The work is demonstrative of Ancher's close relationship with her family and the trust they shared, which in turn opened up new avenues for her work. 814 Skagens Museum
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Random painting of me as a kid #minutiae
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Church at dusk #minutiae
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I wrote about the Jung stone for the 13th edition of Science & Magic, the second instalment of my Mathew Street wander and the 13th of my Magnetic North bulletins from the Liverpool drift. You can read it here along with lots of other delights:

www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
Photo of carved stone in Mathew Street bearing the C.G. Jung dream quote: Liverpool is the Pool of Life
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Kristin Hersh
Belle and Sebastian
Lloyd Cole
Rickie Lee Jones
Suzanne Vega
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times (I’m excluding Icelandic and Finnish bands and musicians and I think it might be only these five I’ve seen more than once).

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Erasure
The Damned
Castle Rat
Man or Astroman?
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
The Sacred Memory Bank Assemblage Collage Word Mike Badger Jeff Young The Kirkby Gallery 19 Jan - 27 March 2026
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
foxglove1977.bsky.social
Concertina art project in process - "There are jewels of light on the bracken and lichen flecks in the forest".
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening.

~Virginia Woolf (The Waves)
[Woman in a Hat by Henri Matisse, circa 1920]
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
foxglove1977.bsky.social
Using the singular for trousers or lips, makes me ill. "A red lip", "a black trouser"....
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The way Richard Madeley flares his nostrils, in order to look credible, learned or serious.
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Hansel and Gretel-type stage set, seen from my yoga mat last night. New moon in Scorpio vibes. What's behind the gingham curtain, Gretel? Care to look?
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Sleeping over at my parents' house is like sleeping in the bowels of Big Ben (thanks to their chiming clock). #countingthedongs
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Works in progress #abstractart
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Autumnal haiku postcards for posting #minutiae
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Beautiful late bloom #minutiae
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Elga Sesemann (1922-2007)
Landscape, 1945
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Inconsequential brick pattern/shadow. #minutiae
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Cy Twombly / Untitled [Archeological Inscriptions North African Trip] ca. 1952
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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When it comes to art, people love an establishment seal of approval. It's as if people don't have their own opinions unless someone 'on high' deems it credible. Yawn.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
foxglove1977.bsky.social
Beautifully shot James Whale film 'The Old Dark House' (1932) so much better on the silver screen.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Autumnal haiku postcards for posting #minutiae
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Tree shadow on a house wall in the setting October sun next to the yellowed crown of a Japanese cherry.
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
foxglove1977.bsky.social
You get older and you dispense with all that silly stuff about perfectionism. It came to me this morning while peeling fruit. It's a mundane example, but I think there was a time when I couldn't eat a tangerine unless the 'white stringy bits' had been removed. Haha! Embrace the white stringy bits!
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM