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Just Kate
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I’m Kate, a self taught multidisciplinary artist working with paint & sound

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💙 music, art, nature, ancient history, science and space

Inspired by the beauty of the cosmos

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · Jul 21
Thank you to my friends for the encouraging words this past week 💙

My latest painting was inspired by the coast, water, movement, anemone, seaweed, connections and the cosmos

Acrylic on board ✨
handmaiduns.bsky.social
Evening #FungiFriends

It’s been a while since I went out and did any shroom spotting.

Here’s a few from earlier today
Fungus growing on a cut tree stump Some delicate creamy looking mushrooms amongst moss and leaves Some mushrooms found a nice place to nestle amongst the deadwood, fallen leaves and moss Very pretty mushrooms clinging to the underside of a moss covered branch
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Sky Fall

#1127 taken 11:09 am
#art
#photography
#macro
#abstact
Macro photograph of an abalone shell
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.
Five stones, all painted with ravens on them.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar day 19

M74: The Phantom
36x36 91x91
Oil on canvas
Based on the JWST image of M74, The Phantom Galaxy
Painting of a whirlpool like galaxy with blue and orange swirling clouds with lots of stars
December 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
handmaiduns.bsky.social
Happy Friday 🎉

Here’s my submission for today’s #ArtAdventCalendar

‘Oops’

#photography
A red envelope that has a burn hole right through it
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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shiftypumpkin.com
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19

18”x24” oil painting of dark, jagged mountains amongst a cloudy, stormy sky. A break in the clouds from the upper-left casts a semi-golden light down on the landscape. Pine trees and a shallow pond sit in the foreground.
18”x24” oil painting of dark, jagged mountains amongst a cloudy, stormy sky. The clouds are sweeping across the largest mountain in the center of the painting. A break in the clouds from the upper-left casts a semi-golden light down on the landscape. Pine trees and a shallow pond sit in the foreground.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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#UrbanGaze #ColorADay #YellowThu #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #SensoryArt #Moments #ArtAdventCalendar

Full moon, light. Fire walk, night. - Last month

#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #pedestrianview #rainflection #hotXing #glowy
Wet crosswalk at night. The white streetlight and the yellow-orange and red wait light is reflected and elongated across it. There's a puddle reflecting the full moon in the intersection that's reflecting the green go light.
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

“Continental Drift”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a volcanic wasteland, sitting in between snowy mountains and a sprawling forestland.
“Continental Drift”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a volcanic wasteland, sitting in between snowy mountains and a sprawling forestland.
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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For the #ArtAdventCalendar: a brush pen sketch of a belted kingfisher, doodled as part of a past #Inktober challenge. I’ve spent much time attempting to get close enough to a kingfisher for a photo – and still so far the best I’ve achieved is this courtroom sketch. #birds
A black-and-white (and grey) brush pen sketch of a kingfisher perched on a branch.
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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kerriedoodles.bsky.social
Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.
The Seven Whistlers, here portrayed as a flock of seven curlews flying together on the night of a full moon. They fly from right to left, above a silver loch and a little cottage on the shore.
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17

"Spinning Projection", 2025

Traditional geometrical construction (axonometry), illustrating the relation between spin in quantum mechanics and stereographic projection. Watercolors/watercolor pencils.

#SciArt #MathArt
Geometrical construction colored with watercolors and annotated with mathematical formulae: Spin in quantum mechanics related to stereographic projection. By elkement 2025. The spin is built from an up and a down component. If you visualize it as an arrow pointing in a certain direction, you can project down the point where the spin punctures the sphere. The image point In the equatorial plane can be interpreted as the ratio of the "amounts" of up and down component (This is not exact terminology.) Playing with the geometry, half of the inclination angle theta of the original arrow shows up again when looking at the projection in the plane. This factor one half is what a lot of weirdness of spins can be traced back to (like: "You need two full rotations to get back to the original state").
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17

“Crystal Caverns”, an 18”x24” oil painting depicting a cave with colorful crystals in the ground and walls. A waterfall cascades in the background, and shafts of light show in between columns of rock.
“Crystal Caverns”, an 18”x24” oil painting depicting a cave with colorful crystals in the ground and walls. A waterfall cascades in the background, and shafts of light show in between columns of rock.
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Day 17 #ArtAdventCalendar

Delphinium, acrylic on stretched canvas, 100 cm x 80 cm, 2015 (Private collection)

#art #painting #AcrylicPainting #ContemporaryPainting #FlowerPainting #InspiredByNature
A vertical composition of one central stalk of an abstracted delphinium (larkspur) flower. Painted in acrylic with drippy layers of lozenge shapes, with a hint of blue sky on the top half of the composition, dark green trees in the distance, and light green foliage on the bottom. The stalk is shown from the middle, no top or bottom visible.
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨

We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!

Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)

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Photo of a marine terminating glacier in Greenland with icebergs in front of it
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I see its nativity time again. Nativities are one of my favorite things. Not sure what the theme is going to be this year #artadventcalendar #octopus #octobabyjesus
A frog kneels in celebration at the birth of octopus baby jesus three wise dinosaurs also gather. The three octopus parents also celebrate.
December 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Day sixteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a soft pastel painting of my local river in the depths of winter.
A soft pastel painting of a river overhung by many spindly trees in winter. The sky is grey, the water is silver and the trees are brown, some of them delicately lined with verdant green moss.
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Merry Christmas - I hope you have a wonderful holiday season! youtu.be/nuCyjhbwm_4
SANTA'S Band is a Christmas Confection and makes a great greeting for the season ...
YouTube video by Leonard Wolf AKA Funk Cat®
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December 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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An updated image of some recent work, with me for scale!
A photo of the artist (needing a hair cut) with a collection of recent paintings!
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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#NatureIsArt

Double tulip flames - 2025

#Phonetography
#ArtAdventCalendar #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings
#intimategathering #painterly
Closeup of the tips of a yellow and red double tulip, with the dark stamens peeking out. The petals are mostly red and tipped with yellow and there's a double yellow stripe down the middle.
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Elia" alcohol inks on ceramic tile 4x4 😊☀️
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#Art #alcoholinkpainting #SunArt #LandscapePainting #WhimsicalArt
Alcohol ink painting of a large swirly sun in a blue sky. There is a hilly green and gold landscape below it with a swath of magenta field and a river flowing through. Two larger trees and one smaller one on the upper right hill, are spotted with multicoloured circles.
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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For today's sensory art post, I thought I'd share this photo of the storm breakers by the Mersey Estuary. It was a summer's day and the tide had gone out, leaving pools of water at the base of the breakers.

#SensoryArt #Photography #Coast #Scape
A photo I took of the storm breakers at the Mersey Estuary, Wirral, UK.
December 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16

“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.
“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.
December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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''My wish is granted... and now everything I love is lost...''

2hrs speedpaint
#Silksong #hollowknight #art
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM