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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Think it’s finished. Glen Rosa on a hot day in May, we went swimming in the pools. I wrote a Substack about it yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/heatherl... #ampainting

A painting of Glen Rosa on the Isle of Arran on a hot day.

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A new Substack - this time a short story open.substack.com/pub/heatherl...

Hot days in the forest - a pastel sketch

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bit of Friday evening pastel sketching as the oil painting dries. #ampainting

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Sketching new greens and light.

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Looking south from Red Pike on a January afternoon a few years ago. A work in progress, trying to remember how to paint in oils. #art #mountains #buttermere #lakedistrict

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Lunchtime climbing in the sun. Did a few problems including this one, my favourite at Shipley Glen. But if I’m honest I mostly basked in the light ☀️ #climbing

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Pastel sketch of Fleetwith Pike, reflections on Buttermere. #lakedistrict #pastel

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Oil paintings and dry pastel paintings. I’ve been in a pastel kind of mood for over a year now. While I’m sure the urge to spread and mix oils with my pallet knife will return at some stage, right now I’m getting my fingers caked in multi-coloured pastel dust from all the sketching and blending.

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Books. 📚 Both reading and writing. As I’m getting close to a final draft of my new book, I’m finding myself reflecting as I complete the concluding chapters. #amreading #amwriting #AI #intuition #art #mountains

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A quick visit to the Lakes with Alanna and an evening climb of Helm Crag. It’s 17 years to the day since I did the Bob Graham Round. Memories of a long, hot, beautiful day up and around the fells. So awesome to be be back remembering and making new memories 🙂 #lakedistrict

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District. www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Pastel sketch of Sasso Lungo in the Dolomites. #dolomites #pastels

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve not painted for a looong time. Very early days for this one but I’m loving it already, even the beginning frustrations caused by nerves and impatience. I need to wait for it to dry a bit… #ampainting #workinprogress

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The mountain is out. I didn’t know it before I came to Seattle but for a lot of the time you don’t see the mountains from the city. One of my friends told me a volcano appears from time to time on the horizon, always dependent on the cloud and haze.

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Definitely late forties now… cake as baked by my lovely daughter and there’s not much left 😋 #cake

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More birch sketching. Lawrencefield from a couple of weeks ago. #pastels #birch

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fine morning for a wander around Silver Howe and Easedale. #lakedistrict #grasmere

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Last night’s walk on the Chevin.

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A henna tattoo of a lizard on my forearm by my niece. It’s giving me ideas… I always said I’d only get one tattoo (and I got that when I was 19). 🦎 #henna #lizard

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Work in progress - Blea Tarn and moody Langdale Pikes beyond. #workinprogress #langdale #pastels

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Trees and light. A pastel sketch from last summer. #pastels #art #trees

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Someone's got the UK edition! (It's out in the US, UK, and Spain in May, with wildly different covers in each.)

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Early bike ride into Leeds and the London train. Had to stop to look at the view :) #wharfedale

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A pastel sketch of Cìr Mhór and Goatfell from a bright evening on Arran a couple of years ago. #Arran #art #pastels

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

‘What’s the most challenging thing about working in AI?’ I was interviewed by the BBC on a theme of the proportion of women working in AI development and why we need to change it. This proportion is currently 22%. Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s keep pushing!

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I went looking for land skeins at sunrise and found some. This place is so beautiful, feeling so inspired to paint and write. #sunrise #andalucia

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I was interviewed by Diginomica. We spoke about AI bias, the ways you can make AI ethical and why responsible AI and AI innovation are not mutually exclusive (despite some implying otherwise). diginomica.com/ai-innovatio... #AI

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Quick pastel sketch, mostly done en plein air earlier today. #pleinair #sketching #pastels #andalucia

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

There’s a spell - a few minutes in the evening - when the light turns these wonderful glowing colours. Tonight I legged it up the hill, under the crag to the ridge to be met by this. I am rapidly falling in love with this place, paintings everywhere I look. #sunset #andalucia #elchorro #light

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just finished this pastel sketch of birch and winter light. I saw these trees when I was just south of Doncaster on the train to London a couple of weeks ago. The train was going slow and I took a few photos to work from. Don’t forget to look up :) #pastels #birch #light

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

New book. I couldn’t really resist given the title, it’s proving to be very mountainy. #amreading #mountains

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Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

View from the train. Heading north this time. #sunrise

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