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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some recent nighttime sketchbook wandering

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Night time in the morbid sketchbook

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some characters from instruments at the Ashmolean museum

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s World Gratitude Day, so I’m going to thank Jemima who donated her stem cells to treat my blood cancer, and then two years later, her lymphocyte cells to rescue me from relapse into leukaemia. Without her, I almost certainly wouldn’t be here today.

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sketchbook hour-Cranach collage painting

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sketchbook hour: the guy who still lived in King Arthur’s Cave till the mid 19th century known as Slippery Jem

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I found an odd plant I had never seen before up at the hill fort above Monmouth. Black Nightshade aka Pretty Morel

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Captain of my Soul…. #sketchbook hour

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Things of beauty which are not also sinister sometimes fail to register with me but I found much to enjoy in the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social exhibition about botanical art

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Books, art & music save us over & over. So far 2026 a very fun reading year (after a blah 2025)

Huge pile of books

Middlemarch, Mansfield park, forms of time, dungeon crawler carl, parade, onlomov. Earthsea, terrestrial, the gift, films of Antonioni, magic mountain, Kafka on the shore, Samarai detectives

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The thing I like about a learning curve, with Gouache paint in this case, is that there is no controlling the outcome. What comes out comes out. Today:

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Anxious page in sketchbook, it’s a n anxious time, best to express not repress

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Beautiful 18th-century botanical models in wax from the Museo della Specola in Florence (source: www.finestresullarte.info/opere-e-arti...)

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A bit of sketching from a Van Dyke in my book, now to draw ghosts on the facing page

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A wander by the Roman wall around Silchester Hampshire

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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you remember, or watched or queued in the late Queen’s Lying-in-State you might want to check out this exhibition.

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Goodnight from this collage with its umbilical attached twin

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m sitting here trying to read Hölderlin in German and the actual football on the tv keeps distracting me, most untoward. This may be the first time this has happened in my little art life.

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The pale waxwork head I made at the Careggi museum of pathology in Florence a while back

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Goodnight from my wax sculpture Dreaming Dissects the Soul

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Larry Rivers, Double Portrait of Frank O'Hara, 1955 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The windows at Cornelissen art shop on Great Russell St Bloomsbury

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Some pages from my fanciful sketchbook

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today I learned influential photographer August Sander had a son, Erich, who was a socialist & activist imprisoned for high treason by the Nazis. Erich Sander smuggled a camera into prison where he took photos like this one of French Resistance member Marcel Ancelin weristwalter.eu/project/port...

Photograph of young man with mustache and bushy hair, shirtless, facing the camera

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I could write a thread on clearing out my studio for moving house and arachnophobia. And my screams and suffering. I could, but I will leave it to your imagination.

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My anatomical painting of Eurydice at the Gates of Hades feels like last week in the furnace. More info at: www.eleanorcrook.net/product-page... #morbidart

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Searching for chairs for our new place, these are so handsome and ancient but they make you sit up all proper and tense…. Perhaps not the most relaxing

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Collage day… what else to do on a hot afternoon? Quite a few of my sculptures start life as paper collages

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Underwater photography by my dad in 1975

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Underwater photography by my dad in 1975

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sketchbook hour: another centaur from the Capitoline Museum

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sketchbook hour: another centaur from the Capitoline Museum

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sketchbook hour: a centaur from the Capitoline Museum, Rome

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Arrived in the Roman Forum and had a monochrome spree

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Highly recommend the beautiful Marino Marini museum in Florence. I had a Modernist Moment. Space, invention, scale

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Oil Painting today just for the heck of it

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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Not only do the police have to contend with a fascist demo, the Nakba Day event and the FA cup final, this is also the weekend of the annual Grand Flaneur walk

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Chris Roberts @oneeyegrey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

had lovely day out and about starting with the superb (if disturbing Gordon Museum) which had this on exhibition. No photos allowed in museum. Bored of Peace types might wish to take note andthebandplayedonblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Currently on exhibition in the CARITAS group show in Antwerp, my new collage painting The Bardo of Anaesthesia . Where we go when we are under. www.eleanorcrook.net/product-page...

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Well today still incapacitated with broken ribs. Can only do tiny things. So , planning to carry on reading The Man Without Qualities and make a tiny brass keyhole escutcheon for my antique writing box. Extremely slowly….

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I was touched by the care taken by Parliament and people to pay their respects to the late Queen and honoured to be invited to make a permanent memorial to the occasion. I researched Westminster Hall and the Palace of Westminster and their sculptures for my design. @ukparliament.parliament.uk 3/4

Bronze angel with detailing, open wings and elaborate robes , on a plinth designed by Augustus Pugin in the Norman Porch of the Houses of Parliament, a new work by Eleanor Crook to commemorate the Lying in State of the late Queen Elizabeth II

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Died (alas!) on this day in 1444, Robert Campin of Tournai. Here, his beautiful Annunciation in a Gothic chapel. Mary trying to finish the chapter before she has to deal w/ this.

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Howling wolf, southern Siberia, 500-200 BCE (www.clevelandart.org/art/1986.26) 🗃️

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