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Mo Burns
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It was the worst of times, it was not the best of times. It was definitely the fucking worst of times.
Currently listening to this audiobook. Love it and going to take a punt and predict it could well be a big hit for the author.

#tracychevalier
#girlwithapearlearring
#vermeer
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Shore Collective art exhibition, ' Source to Settlement ' which runs from 15 November 2025 to the 21 March 2026 at Enniskillen Castle, County Fermanagh. I have four small paintings in the show.

#irishartists
#art
#painting
#sculpture
#ceramics
#textiles
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Some recent work in progress. Spray paint on A2 sheets.

#painting
#art
#illustration
#pattern
#texture
#blackandwhite
#wip
#art
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rubbing ny hands together gleefully. A classic picaresque William Boyd novel for the long Winter nights.

#williamboyd
#booklovers
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Some paintings (not all finished) from September/ October. Four of them will be exhibited at Enniskillen Castle in the next Shore Collective show, Source to Settlement. Preview - Friday 14 November.

#painting
#irishart
#northernirishart
#illustration
#samhain
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
José Belmonte artwork with selfie
Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid
October 2025

#selfreflection
#retiropark
#madrid
#maninthemirror
#art
#sculpture
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just returned from my first visit since '92 to the Prado to see the Velázquez, inspired by The Vanishing Man. Fairly sure the room was almost empty last time but memory plays tricks. Started this last night. Probably takes longer by train to get to Chapel Sands from Manchester than plane to Madrid.
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Shore Collective show, Confluence 2.10.25 to 25.10.25 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh. I have two pieces in it. Please pop along if you are anywhere near the vicinity.

#shorecollective
#art
#artexhibition
#omagh
#struleartscentre
#painting
#sculpture
#ceramics
#jewellry
#northernirishart
#irishart
September 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth. Acrylic paint on paper. A3

#painting
#art
#manchesterartist
#irishartist
#bear
September 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Some recent paintings on paper. Better stages are buried under some of the layers but you gotta crack a few eggs...
29cm square and a couple are A3

#manchesterartist
#irishartist
#worksonpaper
#art
#painting
#workinprogress
September 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
September 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?"

The curious history of Irish dogs.

#irishdogs
#shitzu
#davidblakeknox
September 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Monochrome version of #workinprogress #paintonpaper
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some more of my paintings in progress. Hopefully, at some point they'll move to completed.

#wip
#workinprogress
#art
#irishartist
#manchesterartist
#abstractpainting
September 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Some recent acrylic paintings on paper. Most are first stages for something else yet to be figured out. Some I quite like as they are. Might as well document them before potentially destroying them! Most 29 x 29cm

#paintings #irishartist #manchesterartist
#pattern
#texture
#art
#moody
#colour
August 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Currently listening to the audiobook, Made in Manchester by @groomb.bsky.social (narration David Judge) borrowed from Manchester Libraries on the BorrowBox app.

#supportyourlocallibrary
#briangroom
#manchester
#books
#madeinmanchester
#history
August 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Otto Six, self-portrait, aged 21.
#corduroy
#ottodix
August 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
August 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Photo I took in 2010. Hum Garden by The Fall to yourself while looking at it for full effect.
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I have a sleeping guard dog in the corner of my bedroom #Pareidolia
#letsleepingdogslie
July 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Borrowed from my local library in Fallowfield, Manchester. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. Beautiful writing.

#manchesterlibraries
#supportyourlocallibrary
#locallibraries #readers
#andrewmiller
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This sport's bottle available on eBay holds up to 1.5 litres and a million damned souls locked in a vortex of pain. Comes with a choice of lid colours. Rinse before first use. Mine should arrive by Wednesday or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath at the latest.
I'll report further on its contents.
June 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Drawing from today. 23.05.25
May 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Painting by me with some effects jiggery-pokery. Shame I can't easily add the Henry Hall song version which always gave me the creeps.

#teddybearspicnic
#teddybear
#scarredforlife
#art
#illustration
#painting
#macabreart
#thegreenman
@scarredforlife.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I've had a copy of this on my wall for almost 30 years. Only now can I see how faded it is. The original (?) was one of the pieces in an exhibition of the grotesque in Brighton. Cherished possession.
May 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM