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Helen Saxton
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Organic chemist, been working in journals publishing for years. Interests include peer review, also genealogy, language, occasionally politics, Yorkshire. She/her
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Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt
Print featuring a dramatic red, gold and blue dawn or sunset over a hilly landscape with a row of bare winter trees in silhouette
December 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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'A winter sunset over Bolton Priory to mark today's winter solstice' The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154. The canons lived and worshipped here until 1539
'A winter sunset over Bolton Priory to mark the winter solstice' The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154.
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Brighton Street Art Advent Calendar, Day 13

North Laine
I don’t know why this didn’t post the first time, so annoyingly I’m having to do this again. A snowy owl in flight is painted into a bricked up window frame on a pink house above its red door
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Love the painting like quality of this Tim Green photograph of Sandbeds, Queensbury in Bradford. At over 1,100 feet above sea level It is often the first area in the region to experience snow, which tends to stay longer than in lower-lying areas. CC BY 2.0
Tim Green photograph of Sandbeds, Queensbury in Bradford. It is often the first area in the region to experience snow, which tends to stay longer than in lower-lying areas.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Brighton Street Art Advent Calendar, Day 5

North Laine
Painting of young woman with purple bob wearing a wolf skin
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
Photo featuring two sculptures of horses created with driftwood, side view facing each other on a beach in shallow water with reflections in blue sand under a pale blue sky
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart
Photo of a white woman standing by a table on which a large pink crocheted organic looking piece rests
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
A brown pelican, just appearing as a black bird against a muted orange sky, dives into the ocean.
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt
Photo of a street with a woman and child looking down to a painting on the stone floor of a view to a cityscape
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October
Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Stained glass roof of The Peace Portal, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia by glass artist Ulla Darni #womensart
Photo close-up of a stained glass window with spiral design and in varios volours
October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt
Painting with a series of images, one above the other, showing the same scene of a park with grass trees, a pond, over a 24 hour period with xhanging light and changing interactions from people and animals
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
A circular embroidery in a wooden hoop of the White Horse using various stitches including hundreds of French knots for the main grass, long and short for the folds of the hill below the horse, and turkey tail for a field and scattered trees.
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Fennec fox (dog star) by Anne Lemanski #womensart
Sculpture resembling a sitting fox with large ears in dark blue with star constellations overvits body
July 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt
Embroidery hoop with pictorial embroidery resembling a forest in silhouette under a deep blue starry sky
July 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart
Colourful print featuring a silhouette of a large tree in the valley between two rising slopes either side, under a streaked pink and yellow sky
July 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The Faroe Islands have a unique summer tradition where a large rock in Sandur is yarn-bombed by local women, inspired by a local legend about a "Troll Woman's cave"...... #WomensArt
Photo of a large boulder covered in knitted and crocheted patterned material, among other uncovered rocks on a grassy surface under a pale sky
July 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Embroidered artwork created by women of the Otomi people of the central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt
Colourful and busy embroidered artwork featuring stylised animals, birds and plants on a white background
July 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt
Photo of a willow sculpture in a woodland, the sculpture resembles a female archer with flowing long skirt about to shoot an arrow into the distance
July 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Fiona Watson, visual artist based in Scotland with a diverse body of work including printmaking and digital art...
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in blue of a manual typewriter facing forwards with a paper inserted with a text which states "every day I love you more. Well not every day- yesterday you were a bit annoying xx' x
June 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic

Photo: Pete Seaward
A fallen oak turned into a bench with elaborate carvings resembling oak leaves
July 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Rowena Cade (1893–1983) artist, builder, creator of the open air cliff-side Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt
June 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Louise Durham creates driftwood and glass sculptures #WomensArt

#Solstice Northern & Southern hemispheres
Rectangular driftwood vertical post inlaid with circles containing coloured stained glass, tbe sculpture is sited on a shoreline next to the sea at dawn, under a goldon sky in twilight
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM