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@britishart.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 12:35 PM

BCA newsletter now live. Read about the fab new art here:
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@stanjwild.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 9:10 AM

Another one by my uncle, sitting beneath a dust sheet somewhere in Croydon.

Daily Life on Stockwell Road, S.W.9 – Early Morning

#ArtistsOnBluesky #Art #BritishArt #LondonArt #UndiscoveredArt

Daily Life Stockwell Road S.W.9. - early morning by Steve Gibbs

@annedenoon.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 4:06 PM

Harold Knight, 1874-1961
A Window in St John's Wood
oil on canvas, c. 1932
30 x 25 in.
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
📸GMRS, Estate of Dame Laura Knight

#WindowsOnWednesday #BritishArt 🎨

A woman in a long gold satin skirt and dark green velvet top sits sewing in front of a large window with a view of a garden in winter and, beyond a low stone wall, bare trees and white houses with black roofs.

@famousart.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:11 PM

🌊⭐ A giant starfish, strung up on a sunlit beach? Edward Wadsworth’s North Sea (1927) is pure surreal precision. The Vorticist who oversaw Dazzle camouflage on 2,000+ WWI ships swapped oil for egg tempera, hence those crisp, glowing edges. 🚢🎨 #ArtHistory #BritishArt #Surrealism

Surrealist coastal painting in egg tempera. A large green starfish with serrated edges hangs from a rope at the centre of a sandy beach, suspended from tall red wooden scaffold poles. Other poles hold strings of wooden beads, a wooden pulley wheel, a ring-shaped lifebuoy and ropes tied with red and white twine. Small red spade-shaped posts and green ramps sit on the sand, casting long shadows. In the distance, white sailing boats cross a deep blue sea beneath a clear turquoise sky. Signed E. Wadsworth 1927 at lower left.

@open-art.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:33 AM

#GainsboroughDupont #Dupont #ClevelandMuseumOfArt #RococoArt #OilOnCanvas #BritishArt #Rococo

@mdstamper.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:34 PM

“Green Tea” by Leonora Carrington (British) - Oil on canvas / 1942 - Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #LeonoraCarrington #Carrington #Surrealism #BritishArt #MoMA #ModernArt #art #artText #arte #painting #BritishArtist #MuseumOfModernArt #1940sArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists

British artist Leonora Carrington painted “Green Tea” during a turbulent period of displacement and reinvention. After Nazi authorities imprisoned her partner, artist Max Ernst, during World War II, Carrington fled France for Spain. There she experienced a psychological crisis and was confined against her will in a psychiatric institution in Santander, where she underwent harsh treatments. She later escaped her family’s plans for further institutionalization, traveled to New York, and painted this work shortly afterward.

Across a strangely manicured green landscape, a solitary woman stands wrapped from shoulders to ankles in black-and-white, cowhide-like fabric. Her arms disappear beneath the constricting folds, while her pale, masklike face and bare feet remain exposed. Beside her, four small antlered heads rise from a purple vessel. Farther right, a reddish doglike creature and a white horse are tethered to slender trees that seem to grow from their own elongated tails. Behind them stretches an intricate countryside of hedges, paths, miniature trees, towers, and distant fantastic structures beneath a blue sky. Along the bottom edge, the earth appears sliced open, revealing a shadowy underground realm inhabited by bats, birds, bodies, and mysterious cocoons.

The bound central figure has often been interpreted as Carrington herself. Its enveloping garment evokes both protection and restraint, making the surrounding open landscape feel paradoxically inaccessible. The white horse carries particular autobiographical resonance: horses recur throughout Carrington’s art and writing as figures of freedom, transformation, and rebellious energy. Here, however, even the horse is chained.

The serene English-looking countryside coexists with impossible animals, ritualistic objects, and an ominous world literally beneath the surface. The painting embodies a central Surrealist impulse: ordinary appearances conceal unruly inner realities.

@annedenoon.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 5:55 PM

Laura Knight, 1877-1970
Pearl Johnson
oil on canvas, 1926

Johnson was either (according to differing accounts) a nurse or a secretary at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, who was active in the civil rights movement. Knight met and painted her on a trip to the U.S.

#FacesOnFriday 🎨 #BritishArt

Portrait painting of the head and shoulders of a Black woman in a sleeveless blue garment. She has short hair, wears dangling lozenge-shaped earrings, holds her right hand on her chest over her heart and looks serenely at the viewer.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:39 AM

#OCTOBER
‘Red Shop (The October Sun)’
Walter Richard Sickert (1860−1942). Oil on panel. 267 x 356 mm. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Ca. 1888.
#WalterRichardSickert #BritishArt #PostImpressionism #painting #OilPainting

@breakingnews06.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:54 PM

Close-up look at Turner's '£50m' Rome painting on show in the city #Turner #RomeArt #ArtAuction #HistoryOfArt #BritishArt

@jemmesedi.c.im.ap.brid.gy Sep 27, 2026, 6:16 PM

The Mandolinist -- Mark Gertler --Oil on board --1934

I'm surprised that Tate Britain does not currently have this work on display. Gertler is a significant British painter, and this work both merits attention and would be popular with the public.

#Art #BritishArt […]

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@penleehousegallery.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 10:51 AM

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is gold, silver & bronze. We chose A Golden Dream (1893) by Thomas Cooper Gotch, owned by The Harris. Gotch drew on fables and folklore, often leaving his sources mysterious. 🍎✨

#ThomasCooperGotch #NewlynSchool #BritishArt

A young woman in a green dress with a red sash reaches toward golden leaves and fruit on a tree branch in a lush, autumnal garden setting.

@thezenoftrueart.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:00 PM

Charles Ginner (1878-1952), "Street Scene," watercolor on paper, nd; Royal Watercolour Society. #art #arte #britishart #modernart #watercolor #watercolour #paintings #peintures #kunst #london #urbanart #museum #artgallery

@britishart.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 6:51 AM

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@annedenoon.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 2:30 PM

Rex Whistler (1905-1944)
Girl's Head beside a Skull, circa 1934
oil on board
20.2 x 24.2 cm.
signed 'Rex Whistler' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'Rex Whistler 20 Fitzroy St W1' (on the reverse)
Sold at Christie's, 2001

#FacesOnFriday 🎨 #BritishArt #Mood