Botanically-accurate knitted and crocheted sculptures of flowers by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

Swapping anxiety for creativity - how making stuff can help us find ourselves and understand others

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Trying to make events happen is such a rollercoaster. An ongoing exercise in determination, graft, humility, surprise and unexpected generosity, all in the name of human connection. Heaven forbid people decide that staying home to watch telly is better. It’s never better.

Come and join us! Some fabulous writers coming up for the weekend. www.shropshirelive.com/entertainmen... @robinince.bsky.social

We’ve got folk musicians in this weekend and I mentioned I used to play the violin 30 years ago. Today this turned up. Many mixed feelings about my Nemesis as we meet again. My wrist remembers, my fingers do not.

Paula Estevan, contemporary Native American potter born in Acoma Pueblo who learned the art of making pottery in the traditional way from her mother #WomensArt

Ethiopian photographer and artist Aïda Muluneh was commissioned to create a body of work highlighting water scarcity, 2018 #WomensArt

Successful integration into the new-to-me Zumba group of very local women achieved. They have established that I am longer-term local than they thought, they know where I live, we have found the people we know in common and agreed on features of another Zumba group led by someone else a while ago.

'Williamina Fleming (standing) supervises the team of (underpaid) women “computers” at the Harvard College Observatory as they help map the universe – one star at a time' US, 1875 (via Smithsonian Insider) #WomensArt

Like the author of this article I read Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear when I lived in Los Angeles 20 years ago. I have been thinking about it a lot this week. I am so sorry for this tragedy. I wonder what will change now that so many rich people’s houses are burning? www.frieze.com/article/mike...

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Frida Kahlo with singer Chavela Vargas, 1945 #WomensArt

First day back at work and my new programme has gone live. You never know if it’s a good programme or not until it hits the public, no matter how good it is in your head. The test is when people you don’t know vote on it with their money. Today was a GOOD day. Regulars and new people. A good day. 🥳

Through the windows, 2021 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

Ludlow has pulled the fog over its head like a duvet. Go back to the sofa, it says. Go back to the sofa.

A beautiful sunlight midwinter picnic today, watched for a while by a muntjac who browsed gently in the trees beside us.