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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · 25d

Bloody hell: best year ever for our garden apples. Branches touching the grass. . . "and there may be two or three / Apples that I didn't pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now." Robert Frost.

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · Aug 30

"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting

By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]

#art #painting #illustration #caturday

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 16

Joyce Carol Oates (2010). This oil portrait is based on how joycecaroloates.bsky.social was when we had an onstage conversation in Chicago as part of Story Week 2010. The painting is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, @raioxford.bsky.social

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 16

Arthur Miller (2009). Standing outside his home in Roxbury, Connecticut in the summer 1990, he's holding a copy of his autobiography, Timebends. This oil portrait is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 16

Tango, Buenos Aires (2016)

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 13

My portrait of painter, Richard Ewen, an American who settled in Wiltshire. I inherited his easel.

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · Aug 13

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At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

Podcast Episode · Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso · 07/19/2023 · 53m

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 10

Paris Métro (2023)

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 9

Bouquiniste (2025)

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 6

October in the Tuileries (2023)

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Hey Hey, My My" is one of the very few guitar riffs I learned as a teenager. But I found a Heart of Gold and now the Old Man really is a lot like me.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 4

I once knew someone who knew Fowles. I had a hardback of Daniel Martin & a friend with a son named Daniel Martin. Fowles signed the copy "to Daniel Martin."

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 3

Charity shop find. I used to see the Picador paperback of this in the early 90s when I started reading novels, and was always intrigued by it. I’ve read only two Fowles books: The Collector and French Lieutenant’s Woman. Loved both but I know his reputation otherwise is shaky.

Daniel Martin by John Fowles. Triad Granada A-format paperback, late 70s/early 80s. Cover art is The First Marriage (1962) by David Hockney.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 29

@lsupress.bsky.social have included a monochrome reproduction of this painting, "Art Appreciation," in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our cat, Socrates, died aged 21 in April. In youth he was a remarkable leaper. Later he was arthritic, deaf, and poor-sighted, but remained philosophical.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 24

"I wander & I find," writes Pessoa. "I find because I wander." I found him through Saramago & both accompany me on visits to Lisbon (Ch. 20 of Portraits from Paris @lsupress.bsky.social). The Book of Disquiet is a strangely relaxing read. "Life is an experimental journey that we make involuntarily."

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

Published by the Half Pint Press, London, 2017.

There were only 50 copies of this made for sale (out of a total run of 80), so I thought I’d share as much of it as I can. Numbering of fragments follows the 1982 edition.

Cardboard box letterpressed with the title and author

Back of box stating 80 copies were made of which 50 were available to buy. This is copy number 37.

The box opened. Inside are objects and documents and scraps of things, the ephemera of a life, each printed with one of the fragments of text that make up The Book of Disquiet.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Bonjour Bluesky. I'm visiting locations featuring in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (lsupress.bluesky.social 2025) - here the Tuileries & Musée d'Orsay. It's also about how 1970s boarding made me an oil painter. "Away to School" is reproduced in the book.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 24

"I lost my head and went straight to the cellar to look for my hat which was in the attic." François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb.

Barry Walsh @pimlicokid.bsky.social · Jan 15

Temporary memory loss is undoubtedly linked to altitude. Go to the top of the house and forget why you're there. Return to the ground floor and remember.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jul 24

I remember reading Light in August in Vancouver in the summer of 1983. I know the meaning of the title, but a certain light in the trees never fails to remind me of it.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · May 19

The @lsupress.bsky.social virtual book launch for Portraits from Paris will take place on 26 June. Please see the LSU Press Facebook page for details.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thank you to all who came to the PV of Paris Paintings on 6 March. The paintings are on display until 30 March.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy New Year, Joyce.

Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Dec 4

Welcome to the TG Club.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wonderful! A range of emotions in evidence. A mind full of energy.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social · Nov 25