jerry simcock
@jerrysimcock.bsky.social
Aka WildseedZen painter, writer, trying to follow a Buddhist path in East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk
www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk
www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
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jerry simcock
@jerrysimcock.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Oil Paintings - Jerry Simcock
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jerrysimcock.com/project/oil-... inadvertently deleted previous pinned post of link to website so here it is again!
Detail/ oil on paper
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Detail/ oil on paper
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Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read, a book and a world www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/d...
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting …
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November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her abiding wisdom on how to read, a book and a world www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/d...
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In « The plant whisperers » is sort of a plant-travelogue, in which Kapka Kassabova follows the foragers, herbalists, and mushroom-hunters of Bulgaria — people who speak « plant language ». What a journey: europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-plant-wh...
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In « The plant whisperers » is sort of a plant-travelogue, in which Kapka Kassabova follows the foragers, herbalists, and mushroom-hunters of Bulgaria — people who speak « plant language ». What a journey: europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-plant-wh...
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Beautiful compost…
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Beautiful compost…
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UK-based Yemeni artist Asmahan A. Mosleh, known for her hugely intricate mandala artworks #WomensArt
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
UK-based Yemeni artist Asmahan A. Mosleh, known for her hugely intricate mandala artworks #WomensArt
Detail from large watercolour - what happens when I’m in a vibrant rhythm and patterning mode…
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Detail from large watercolour - what happens when I’m in a vibrant rhythm and patterning mode…
Another extract…
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Another extract…
Diptych extract...
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Diptych extract...
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Bird in the Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227946
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bird in the Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227946
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November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
A walk round the lake in the rain on Sunday…
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A walk round the lake in the rain on Sunday…
Visit to @fruitmarketgallery to see the Jaune Quick-to-See Smith fascinating exhibition - Wilding. Just finished reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming how serendipitous!
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Visit to @fruitmarketgallery to see the Jaune Quick-to-See Smith fascinating exhibition - Wilding. Just finished reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming how serendipitous!
Watercolour and gouache on Khadi paper…
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Watercolour and gouache on Khadi paper…
Wonderful writing, full of poetry, humour and multiple beings… so enjoyed the ride. Always good when a book from @andotherstories.bsky.social drops through the letterbox and my reading world expands, this time to a Canadian First Nation take on holding together in the face of colonial destructions
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Wonderful writing, full of poetry, humour and multiple beings… so enjoyed the ride. Always good when a book from @andotherstories.bsky.social drops through the letterbox and my reading world expands, this time to a Canadian First Nation take on holding together in the face of colonial destructions
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This is a fantastic list.
Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is a fantastic list.
Sunday splashabout
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sunday splashabout
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John Constable, A Summerland,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126180
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126180
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
John Constable, A Summerland,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126180
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126180
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Morning experiments…
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Morning experiments…