Laurie Merrifield
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Laurie Merrifield
@laurieboy.bsky.social
We draw what we see before we read or write
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I look person.
I look.
I like look person.

I have friend.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I so clever
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It is becoming like NK except Trump’s sycophants probably can’t spell, so an absence of note takers in America…
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If one looks at a broad swathe of different artists and the work around this time one can also see in those tensions Expressionism forcing its way into the reckoning, for example in Emil Nolde’s ‘Flower garden girl and washing’
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Imagine being the poor sod on the right, listening to these two bores, making small talk and shit jokes, while turning the air rancid with bad farts, in a room with crap art and sad decor.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Still listening to him, love his words too, and drive the motor on the album…
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Two actors at the top of their game…

Just watched this again, another genius.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Does Trump think he’s running a TV Reality Show or Beauty Pageant?

His thoughts are preoccupied with ‘Ratings’, or phrases like “no talent”.

Is he really an American President?
Is America now in The Truman Show?
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
your self portrait is very good.

I saw an exhibition of Soutine quite by accident while visiting Chartres Cathedral.

Several paintings of his in a small exhibition space at the back of the Cathedral, almost unadvertised.

Beautiful works like this one, and similar to yours in style.
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Is this your work?
It’s very strong in style and reminds me of Soutine.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You are right also, in saying “it became a way of looking at, and thinking about everything.”

In drawing the one I love, I can add an extra dimension, an important element in life, essential in artistic expression, love itself.

The photo records the image, but drawing expresses emotion.
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The expressions on these faces say all we need to know about this charade…
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Could it be something to do with this?
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
…and can see the too
October 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Two suspect elections, with striking similarities: almost as many people didn’t vote as did, because they couldn’t cast their ballots.
October 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And must be a man thing, as it was for Francis Bacon.

I prefer Daumier’s approach, though Bacon’s eroticism and impact is irresistible.
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The last Magnolia Grandiflora flower of summer.
October 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Further to artist’s awareness of photography and its influences on the way we view pictures, Jacob Riis took this in 1888 In New York.

Difficult to unsee these development.
October 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Beginning to look like Ena Sharples in Coronation Street but Ena had to wear make up to look that bad!
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A country with an economy no bigger than Italy has bought America on the cheap…
October 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Could be room for improvement?
September 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM