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Sally Barton SGFA
@sallybartonart.bsky.social
Artist & illustrator www.sallybarton.co.uk
@SGFADrawing @RIwatercolours @STWatercolour
instagram: @sallybarton_artgallery2022
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SallyBartonArtPrints
From the archive - detail from the first of a number of narrowboat portraits executed over the years. This is 'Dawn Chorus' #canalboat #riverlife #watercolour #portrait #narrowboats #narrowboatsofinstagram #artistonbluesky #waterside #bargee #canalboatlife #watercolorpainting #reflectionsinwater
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Watercolour portrait sketches - selected bits from my figurative paintings. My attempts to suggest the look of a face using only a few brushstrokes #watercolour #portraits #fıgurativeart #faces #lightandshadow #peoplewatching #youthandage #artistsonbluesky #watercolorpainting #greyscaleportrait
October 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Detail from a portrait of the narrowboat 'Hrafn', moored in the Potteries, England. A commission from last year #ThePotteries #narrowboats #watercolour #watercolorpainting #portrait #boats #figurativeart #MiddleEngland #LordVernonsWharf #VictorianIndustrialLandscape #MiddleportPottery
August 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pencil sketch of group of young people on the steps in Trafagar Square. This was sketched from a photo rather than from life #portraits #figurativeart #wolffpencil #peoplewatching #TrafalgarSquare #London #lunchbreak #charcoalpencil #artistonbluesky #figurestudy #pencilsketch #faces #studyofyouth
August 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Detail from a #watercolour painted a couple of years ago 'Out of the Shadows' based on figures observed in Folkestone, Kent #figurativepainting #peoplewatching #watercolor #lightandshadow #artistonbluesky #portrait #KentEngland
August 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
July 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
July 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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"The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist
He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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*glancing around nervously

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 Middlemarch lovers together in a single online location!
May 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
May 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Detail from a just completed watercolour 'Spring sunshine: urban pub garden' #watercolour #peoplewatching #portraits #figürativeart #watercolorpainting #Spring #londonart #pub #society #citylife
April 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Detail from work in progress. Love groups of figures - these were eating lunch outdoors #watercolour #tonal #peoplewatching #figurativepainting #lunchbreak #lightandshadow #portraits #sunglasses #watercolorpainting #greyscale #artistonbluesky
April 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn'

Snyder on the new US imperialism

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
March 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Donald Trump's executive order would make it harder for millions to register to vote, would disenfranchise voters Trump doesn't like, and give power to election deniers to overturn elections they don't win.

This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Spring sunshine here in the UK today. Here's a watercolour based on sketches & photos taken at a Broadstairs beach, Kent, last summer - families in silhouette against a sparkling sea #watercolorpainting #beachlife #watercoloursketch #figurativeart #Kent #seashore #EnglishSummer #holiday
March 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
5 years ago today - 23rd March - the first UK Covid lockdown began. I sketched the view from an upstairs window, showing the socially distanced queue for our village post office #lockdownanniversary #covidqueueing #coronavírus #pencilsketch #sociallydistanced #queue #drawnfromlife #postoffice
March 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour exhibition opens on 25th March at Mall Galleries in London, but all works available to see/purchase now via online gallery:
buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/ri-2025/
#watercolourpainting #figurativeart #watercolor #watermedia
March 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'm really happy to have work selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Society of Graphic Fine Art respective exhibitions at the Mall Galleries this Spring.
SGFA - 10th to 15th March.
RI - 26th March to 5th April. #watercolour
Details from 2 of the artworks below:
February 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Reposting, because it's so important that people know about this...

#neonicotinoids #cats #dogs #birds #pesticides
"100% of the nests contained fipronil, banned in the UK and EU for agricultural use, and 89% contained imidacloprid, banned in the EU as a plant protection product. Both are still widely used in pet flea treatments..."

#neonics #cats #dogs #birds #pesticides

www.theguardian.com/environment/....
Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM