Kristian Purcell
@kristianpurcell.bsky.social
Artist working between the historical & personal. Illustrator of ‘Doom Towns, a Graphic History of Atomic Testing’. Teacher of Art. He/him. www.kristianpurcell.com
Insta: @kristianpurcell
Insta: @kristianpurcell
Pinned
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Ambrose McEvoy, The Ear-Ring, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112764
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112764
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Ambrose McEvoy, The Ear-Ring, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112764
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112764
Obsessed with Hania Rani’s Non-Fiction right now sptfy.bio/nonfiction
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Obsessed with Hania Rani’s Non-Fiction right now sptfy.bio/nonfiction
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The book to which - by chance - I owe my getting back into academia…
I love this book.
I love this book.
After listening to the second iteration of the @backlisted.bsky.social on All the Devils are Here (Una’s Version?) (the Miller redux?) i’m finally diving in.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The book to which - by chance - I owe my getting back into academia…
I love this book.
I love this book.
Newly finished bit of drawing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Newly finished bit of drawing.
After listening to the second iteration of the @backlisted.bsky.social on All the Devils are Here (Una’s Version?) (the Miller redux?) i’m finally diving in.
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After listening to the second iteration of the @backlisted.bsky.social on All the Devils are Here (Una’s Version?) (the Miller redux?) i’m finally diving in.
How it’s going.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How it’s going.
Building up early layers on a new piece inspired by a photograph of Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Building up early layers on a new piece inspired by a photograph of Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
My painting of Vivien Leigh on her birthday
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My painting of Vivien Leigh on her birthday
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
November 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bedford School Staff & Friends exhibition, PV 6.30-8 7th Nov
Show runs until 12 December
Show runs until 12 December
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bedford School Staff & Friends exhibition, PV 6.30-8 7th Nov
Show runs until 12 December
Show runs until 12 December
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Sometimes I like to little studies of old master works to challenge myself. This is a copy of Odalisque, 1839, by Francesco Hayez I have been working on this on and off since last year and was determined to finish it. Learnt a little from this experience, especially with glazing. #painting
October 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Sometimes I like to little studies of old master works to challenge myself. This is a copy of Odalisque, 1839, by Francesco Hayez I have been working on this on and off since last year and was determined to finish it. Learnt a little from this experience, especially with glazing. #painting
A favourite corner of a painting if mine
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A favourite corner of a painting if mine
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This is quite a read!
The event was a disaster but the music is very atmospheric.
www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/lon...
www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/lon...
Tangerine Dream: The Reims Cathedral Disaster – Electronic Sound
www.electronicsound.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is quite a read!
Saw some amazing art today:
1. Kristian Evju
1. Kristian Evju
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Saw some amazing art today:
1. Kristian Evju
1. Kristian Evju
New beginnings
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New beginnings
"Every intelligent painter," wrote Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which anything he paints is both a homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss."
#painting
#painting
October 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Every intelligent painter," wrote Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which anything he paints is both a homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss."
#painting
#painting
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laura palmer / everybody scream
October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
laura palmer / everybody scream
A little acrylic study after David Jagger. i did this when I first started teaching to test out acrylics. Ended up getting lost.
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A little acrylic study after David Jagger. i did this when I first started teaching to test out acrylics. Ended up getting lost.
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Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.
September 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.
So here’s my studio for the new day job: teaching painting at Bedford School. A beautiful 1752 building that started life as the Bretheren Hall of a Moravian Chapel, became a school( which a young James Gillray attended, the Ladies School, and sold to Bedford in 1921 and became their Art School.
September 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
So here’s my studio for the new day job: teaching painting at Bedford School. A beautiful 1752 building that started life as the Bretheren Hall of a Moravian Chapel, became a school( which a young James Gillray attended, the Ladies School, and sold to Bedford in 1921 and became their Art School.