John Platt
@johnsplatt.bsky.social
NHS doctor 1979-2024, physician, geriatrician and stroke physician with an interest in teaching. Now retired. Lancastrian but long in London. Art and the natural world. Reader. Tries to keep drawing.
A blaze of form and colour from the hallucinatory imagination of Mr Blake, born 28 November 1757
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A blaze of form and colour from the hallucinatory imagination of Mr Blake, born 28 November 1757
A geriatrician ponders these hotel stairs, darkly…
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A geriatrician ponders these hotel stairs, darkly…
From the hand of Mr Kandinsky, 1940
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From the hand of Mr Kandinsky, 1940
Rainbow, Hever Castle gardens, Kent
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Rainbow, Hever Castle gardens, Kent
Ageing in a decent fashion
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ageing in a decent fashion
Reflections. Stourhead.
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Reflections. Stourhead.
Enduring fishermen’s huts, Hastings, East Sussex
September 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Enduring fishermen’s huts, Hastings, East Sussex
Cloudscape, Waterloo Bridge, 6 pm
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Cloudscape, Waterloo Bridge, 6 pm
Antler locking fallow deer, in the quiet of Home Park, near Hampton Court Palace
August 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Antler locking fallow deer, in the quiet of Home Park, near Hampton Court Palace
A hospitable flower
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
A hospitable flower
Small tortoiseshell butterfly, Nicky Nook, Lancashire
August 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Small tortoiseshell butterfly, Nicky Nook, Lancashire
Still lingering on as a medical symbol
July 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Still lingering on as a medical symbol
Observed by another life-form
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Observed by another life-form
Behold the Common Brimstone butterfly, Avebury
July 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Behold the Common Brimstone butterfly, Avebury
Butterflies, Wiltshire.
Top : The dark side and the bright side of the peacock butterfly.
Top : The dark side and the bright side of the peacock butterfly.
July 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Butterflies, Wiltshire.
Top : The dark side and the bright side of the peacock butterfly.
Top : The dark side and the bright side of the peacock butterfly.
Beach face, Littlehampton
July 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Beach face, Littlehampton
Child’s dress from Ramallah, Palestine, 1930, from an exhibition of Palestinian textiles 2024.
July 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Child’s dress from Ramallah, Palestine, 1930, from an exhibition of Palestinian textiles 2024.
A 2,775 year old face stares apprehensively at the future of humanity.
Bologna Archeology Museum
Bologna Archeology Museum
June 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A 2,775 year old face stares apprehensively at the future of humanity.
Bologna Archeology Museum
Bologna Archeology Museum
Very serious and concerned looking faces gather to see the raising of dead Lazarus.
Painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna around the year 1308 AD, Siena art exhibition, National Gallery
Painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna around the year 1308 AD, Siena art exhibition, National Gallery
June 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Very serious and concerned looking faces gather to see the raising of dead Lazarus.
Painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna around the year 1308 AD, Siena art exhibition, National Gallery
Painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna around the year 1308 AD, Siena art exhibition, National Gallery
A creature of startling livery seen for the first time on an Iron Age fort on the South Downs today. Looks like the caterpillar of Saturnia pavonia - the Small Emperor Moth, but I am no expert.
May 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A creature of startling livery seen for the first time on an Iron Age fort on the South Downs today. Looks like the caterpillar of Saturnia pavonia - the Small Emperor Moth, but I am no expert.
Shells gathered on a Sussex beach
May 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Shells gathered on a Sussex beach
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social Bollard with attitude
May 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social Bollard with attitude
‘Nurse Brown’ 1956 by Irene Welburn (1910-2000)
May 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
‘Nurse Brown’ 1956 by Irene Welburn (1910-2000)