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Lark & Key @larkandkey.bsky.social · 6d

The Art of Birds celebrates our feathered friends and, hopefully, provides an uplifting escape for your viewing pleasure.

Explore, shop and share with your bird loving friends!
larkandkey.com/collections/...

#birdlovers #birdart @streanor.com @brigmills.bsky.social @hannahseng.bsky.social

Lark & Key art gallery's promotional image for The Art of Birds group exhibit, featuring artwork from Janet Eskridge, Ninalee Irani, Eleanor Miller, Bridgette Guerzon Mills, Diane Savino, Hannah Seng, and Sarah Treanor, with ceramic birds by Becky Story.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · 10d

Recent piece: Eternal Unfolding, encaustic mixed media, 12x16 inches. To read some monday morning thoughts and a poem by John O'donohue, head over to my blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/eternal...

#art #encaustic #mixedmedia

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · 17d

Most recent painting "The Wind Is More Than Just Currents of Air", encaustic mixed media, 30x24 inches. Inspired by the tall grasses in DE near the ocean. blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/the-win...
#art #mixedmedia #encaustic #painting

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · 23d

I keep adding rusted materials to my mixed media paintings lately. Return to the Earth, encaustic mixed media, 20x16 inches
guerzonmills.com/blog/return-...

#art #mixedmedia #rustecoprints

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · 25d

The Blanket Around Her by Joy Harjo

maybe it is her birth
which she holds close to herself
or her death
which is just as inseparable
and the white wind
that encircles her is a part
just as the blue sky
hanging in turquoise from her neck
oh woman
remember who you are
woman
it is the whole earth

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · 25d

Framed this small piece up and now it's packed up with 4 other paintings to ship out to Lark and Key Gallery in Charlotte, NC for a bird show. 🐦🕊️

#art #mixedmedia #collage #encaustic

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yvesbroeckx.bsky.social @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · 26d

I E C L I P S E D R A D I A N C E I

A single sunflower, half in light, half in shadow—like the sun caught in eclipse.

- Fix The Shadows -
Art and words by Yves
#Photography #NatureArt #Sunflower #flower #blueskyart #complexptsd #cptsd #eclipse #photo #flowerart #colorphotography

Eclipsed Radiance captures the quiet duality of light and shadow through the close-up of a sunflower. Its golden petals, glowing like flames, reach outward against a dark, velvety void. The image embodies both warmth and solitude, symbolizing resilience in darkness and the eternal pursuit of light.

Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx
This is digitally created art
concept and execution by Yves

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Jennifer Holmes @jenmededit.bsky.social · 25d

“What is a plant without a means to communicate? A husk. And without conversation, a forest is not a forest.”

THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoë Schlanger

#SundaySentence #naturewriting

The tall moss-covered trees of the Lovers Lane trail in Olympic National Park

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Sep 9

thanks! My encaustic paintings are 99% done on wood panels. This one was not. It's on canvas that has been painted so many times and collaged as well that it was pretty stiff. So I used it for this encaustic piece!

Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Sep 9

"The Last Harvest", 20x10 inches, encaustic mixed media including rust prints on rice paper. blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/the-las...
#art #encaustic #mixedmedia #collage

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Sep 5

8:00am - The world is my oyster and anything is possible! Each day is a blessing and truly this morning is no different! Today we rise with the sun and shine just as bright! Carpe diem, I say!

8:03am - burn. it. all. down.

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Integration of Duality, I" encaustic mixed media including salvaged copper, 16x12 inches. blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/integra...
#encaustic #mixedmedia #salvagedmaterials #art

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Sep 4

True. swfa.substack.com/p/for-artist...

For Artists, Rest Isn’t Luxury, It’s Survival

Recently, I came across a fantastic post about the importance of a “third space” - that place outside of home and work where you can exist without pressure to perform, or perform by different standard...

swfa.substack.com

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Sep 2

Most recent painting "Threshold", encaustic mixed media, 24x18 inches
blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/thresho...
#encaustic #mixedmedia #art #painting

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 31

Collage no.47. I was hoping to get 50 done before August was over, but doesn't look like that's going to happen.
#collage #art

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oops. Should be 8x6 inches

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 29

collage no. 46. This rabbit has appeared a few times in my collages recently. I finally figured out why. Definitely has something to do with feeling on high alert. I wrote about it on my blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/collage...
On Alert, various papers, graphite, beeswax, 7x5 inches.
#art #collage

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yay, a red dot on one of my pieces in the "From the Forest" exhibit and Manor Mill Gallery! 🥳 The show will be up through September.
#artexhibit #art #marylandartist

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have a bird show coming up this fall and I just finished this last piece for the show yesterday.
Blog on "Flight Patterns": guerzonmills.com/blog/flight-...

#encaustic #mixedmedia #ilovebirds #painting #art

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 21

No. 43
#collage #mockingbird #art

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills @brigmills.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yesterday I dropped off these 6 pieces for the "From the Forest" exhibit at Manor Mill in Monkton, MD. Opening is this Saturday! 🌿
#artexhibit #marylandartists #encaustic #mixedmedia #salvagedmaterials

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 17

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear

Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · Aug 16

You do not have to win at a crisis. You do not have to push yourself to learn a new language or write a book or take up an instrument.

Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma. Take this time to look at the stars.

- @nikitagill.bsky.social
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

The Fawn

(After Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese")

You do not have to win at a crisis. You do not have to push yourself to learn a new language or write a book or take up an instrument.

Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma. Take this time to look at the stars.

Take this time to look at how the sky still holds clouds that are the shape of hope.

How the dawn begins at the tips of dewy grass, for this is where the horizon begins.

Somewhere the dappled fawn raises her soft neck to watch the sun rise over her meadow.

Somewhere else monarch butterflies begin their long migration, knowing many of them will not make it home.

Remember that you do not need to earn your right to the precious minutes you have on this planet. They are already yours, like the fawn and the butterflies.

The universe beckons you to enjoy this life it has given you through a heart that beats to the rhythm of its very own cosmic song.

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