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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
YOUR choice!!
3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Three individual book covers with different images and colours

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 1

'Reframing Women Printmakers' discusses the significant and vital history of African American women printmakers, from Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Taylor Burroughs to the contemporary US group Black Women of Print.

Three prints with images refecting portraits of Black people in various styles

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

NEED A GIFT? 🎄🎁 🧡
Be quick - While stocks last....
The newest womensart book, #BestSeller #MostGifted !..
At any online or local bookstore.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

'Wheelbarrow washing' by Pamela Grace, hand coloured etching by contemporary printmaker living and working in Galloway, southwestern Scotland #womensart

Print of a garden scene with washing drying on a line and a green wheelbarrow in the foreground

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890. The Impressionist painter and printmaker was inspired by Japanese woodblock prints for the style, layout, and colours of her work in print #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a woman in a blue patterned dress to the left sitting at a desk in an interior while licking the glue of an envelope

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a hare against a pink background with sun and stars

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Louise Stebbing, contemporary Norfolk based (UK) printmaker working mostly in lino printing & etching #WomensArt

Print featuring a sun rise over a river in dawn light with the silhouette of a church tower to the left bank

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Cloud over past generations, 1991
by Bronwyn Bancroft, Indigenous Australian printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Screenprint in colours of blues, purples and yellow with significant motifs and forms as well as representations of people in a line

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Tamara de Lempicka,
Blue Woman with a Guitar, 1929
Polish painter who created her work in an Art Deco style #womensart

Stylised painting of a white woman in a soft blue dress holding a round stringed instrument with a long neck on her lap and holding it as if playing

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Saturday

Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1

Holiday reading?⛱️☀️
Gift or gift yourself?? 🎁

REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS' is OUT NOW!
The NEW womensart book.....
from any good bookstore in your area or online!
🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️
If you like this account you'll love this!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

Print featuring a curved London Underground station as a train arrives, with a small number of people waiting on the platform

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic and collage artist #womensart

Photo of three birds as if flying left created with fast pieces of patterned paper

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for following WA!
Have a coool Friday ....🧡

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart

Painted artwork of a stylised female figure, a white woman as a queen with a crown and golden robes holding a red rose and surrounded by heart motifs, organic lines and a dashed border

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