Dorian Grey
@truedoriangrey.bsky.social
No portrait in my attic. Husband, Dad. Untutored enthusiast of art/photography, music, travel, watching cricket 🏏 on the telly, dabbler in oil painting. All photos I post are my own. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
In London Docklands this morning. Photo by me.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In London Docklands this morning. Photo by me.
I thought this painting was by John Singer Sargent. Photo by me at the Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain in June 2024.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I thought this painting was by John Singer Sargent. Photo by me at the Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain in June 2024.
My painting of Matera, Italy. Oil on canvas. From a photo I took in June 2023.
August 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
My painting of Matera, Italy. Oil on canvas. From a photo I took in June 2023.
July 15, 2025 12:28 pm South Florida rainstorm. 📷 by me.
July 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
July 15, 2025 12:28 pm South Florida rainstorm. 📷 by me.
Earlier today, on a chilly blustery morning, at Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 📷 by me.
May 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Earlier today, on a chilly blustery morning, at Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 📷 by me.
I had seen the painting it in an art book but did not know it is at the PMA. The detail in the painting is astonishing but not overwhelming. The gull in the foreground is a portrait of a gull as Sargent might have painted it. The herring are alive. 😀
May 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I had seen the painting it in an art book but did not know it is at the PMA. The detail in the painting is astonishing but not overwhelming. The gull in the foreground is a portrait of a gull as Sargent might have painted it. The herring are alive. 😀
This afternoon at the Portland museum of Art: Newell Convers Wyeth. 1882-1945
Dark Harbor Fishermen, 1943
Tempera on hardboard. 📷 by me.
Dark Harbor Fishermen, 1943
Tempera on hardboard. 📷 by me.
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This afternoon at the Portland museum of Art: Newell Convers Wyeth. 1882-1945
Dark Harbor Fishermen, 1943
Tempera on hardboard. 📷 by me.
Dark Harbor Fishermen, 1943
Tempera on hardboard. 📷 by me.
Our Labs, Tessa and her son Link, were more than 15 years old when they, separately, crossed the rainbow bridge. We had them from when they were born in Chile.
April 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our Labs, Tessa and her son Link, were more than 15 years old when they, separately, crossed the rainbow bridge. We had them from when they were born in Chile.
Blue Jacaranda - Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon - 30 May 2024 2:08 p.m. 📷 by me.
April 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Blue Jacaranda - Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon - 30 May 2024 2:08 p.m. 📷 by me.
Wonderful!
Your etching reminds of the Portrait of Lugne-Poe by Edouard Vuillard, which I saw at an amazing special exhibition (After Impressionism - Inventing Modern Art) at The National Gallery in London on 12th June 2023. 📷 by me.
Your etching reminds of the Portrait of Lugne-Poe by Edouard Vuillard, which I saw at an amazing special exhibition (After Impressionism - Inventing Modern Art) at The National Gallery in London on 12th June 2023. 📷 by me.
March 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Wonderful!
Your etching reminds of the Portrait of Lugne-Poe by Edouard Vuillard, which I saw at an amazing special exhibition (After Impressionism - Inventing Modern Art) at The National Gallery in London on 12th June 2023. 📷 by me.
Your etching reminds of the Portrait of Lugne-Poe by Edouard Vuillard, which I saw at an amazing special exhibition (After Impressionism - Inventing Modern Art) at The National Gallery in London on 12th June 2023. 📷 by me.
A sign of the Apocalypse? I just chanced upon this photo I took in south Florida on 10th July 2018 at 7:04 a.m.
March 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A sign of the Apocalypse? I just chanced upon this photo I took in south Florida on 10th July 2018 at 7:04 a.m.
One of the most memorable art installations I have seen: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London. There were 888,246 ceramic red poppies commemorating the outbreak of WW I. 📷 by me on 22 September 2014 1:57 p.m.
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One of the most memorable art installations I have seen: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London. There were 888,246 ceramic red poppies commemorating the outbreak of WW I. 📷 by me on 22 September 2014 1:57 p.m.
A view from the battlements of Óbidos Castle in Portugal. 31st May 2024 5:19 p.m. Photo by me.
February 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A view from the battlements of Óbidos Castle in Portugal. 31st May 2024 5:19 p.m. Photo by me.
Matera, Italy, was one of the locations in the film. ‘No Time to Die’. 📷 by me on 18th June 2023 9:24 a.m
February 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Matera, Italy, was one of the locations in the film. ‘No Time to Die’. 📷 by me on 18th June 2023 9:24 a.m
Cerro Macá, a stratovolcano in the Aysén Region in the south of Chile. 📷 by me on February 11, 2019.
February 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Cerro Macá, a stratovolcano in the Aysén Region in the south of Chile. 📷 by me on February 11, 2019.
South Florida sunrise. 7:05 a.m. 11 September 2018. 📷 by me.
February 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
South Florida sunrise. 7:05 a.m. 11 September 2018. 📷 by me.
Mist on the water. Just before sunrise on 2 February 2021. South Florida. Photo by me.
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Mist on the water. Just before sunrise on 2 February 2021. South Florida. Photo by me.
The coming storm. On the other hand, it's an ill wind that blows no one any good. Photo by me: 20th January 2019 7:03 a.m. in south Florida.
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The coming storm. On the other hand, it's an ill wind that blows no one any good. Photo by me: 20th January 2019 7:03 a.m. in south Florida.
19th June 2023 (3:40 pm): The day the sun shone: The Shard, London Bridge, through the train window. 📷 by me.
January 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
19th June 2023 (3:40 pm): The day the sun shone: The Shard, London Bridge, through the train window. 📷 by me.
On a walk we did through Watkins Glen State Park on 14th August 2024. 📷 by me.
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On a walk we did through Watkins Glen State Park on 14th August 2024. 📷 by me.
Cézanne’s ’Still Life with Apples’ (1878) at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 📷 by me 2nd January 2025. A wonderful art museum. Definitely worth visiting.
January 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Cézanne’s ’Still Life with Apples’ (1878) at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 📷 by me 2nd January 2025. A wonderful art museum. Definitely worth visiting.
The Pagoda Clock: At Anglesey Abbey. 30 December 2024. Photo by me.
December 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
The Pagoda Clock: At Anglesey Abbey. 30 December 2024. Photo by me.
Casa Milà - “La Pedrera” (the quarry) in Barcelona. Gaudi’s bizarre chimney stacks. My 📷 12 June 2024.
December 26, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Casa Milà - “La Pedrera” (the quarry) in Barcelona. Gaudi’s bizarre chimney stacks. My 📷 12 June 2024.
Red Amaryllis (oil on canvas).Teaching myself to paint in oils.
December 23, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Red Amaryllis (oil on canvas).Teaching myself to paint in oils.
In my imagination I see a phoenix rising: a long ago South Florida sunrise - 13 September 2018. 7:09 a.m. Photo by me.
December 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
In my imagination I see a phoenix rising: a long ago South Florida sunrise - 13 September 2018. 7:09 a.m. Photo by me.