Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Two new works in progress, exploring my visit to Derry/Londonderry a couple of years ago. (Acrylic on canvas board, 12x10 in.) 060
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Butterfly Boy (Acrylic and collage on canvas panel, 10x8 in) I spent the weekend at a science fiction fanzine fan convention, catching up with buddies from around the world, and while I was there I donated this little curiosity to an auction. Much fun was had. #corflu 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025@creativeartshelp.bsky.social I like to think about work in progress over lunch. The tulips are nice too. 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Messenger of Freedom (Acrylic on block canvas, 9 x 12 in) The latest in my series of Croatian "Kastela" paintings. #painting #art 040
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The House by the Cypress Trees (Acrylic on box canvas, 12 x 9 in) Somewhere else in Croatia, the silence broken only by the wind in the trees. #painting #art 0110
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Meteorologist (Acrylic on canvas board, 8x8 in) The latest in this occasional series of imaginary portraits, finished only a couple of days ago. No doubt there will be more. #painting #art 040
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025King of the Castle (Acrylic on canvas board, 8x8 in) Something else from 2023, spruced up a little. The castle is mine, but that’s not me. #painting #art 090
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The Commuter (Acrylic on canvas board, 8x8 in) A bit of fun from 2023, given some tidying up last night. One of the imaginary portrait series. #painting #art 0131
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025A busy evening, finally pulling together several paintings in need of revision or completion, and now on the table. I was beginning to think I was lost, but maybe I’m on a path again. One still to complete fully, but I’ll be making individual postings. Watch this space. #painting #art 050
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Pere et Mere Tanguy’s Night Out (Oil and postcard on board, 12 x 13.5 ins.) Here’s an oddity from far in the past. It resulted from an exercise in which a postcard was stuck down and then extended. The postcard has faded now but I still have a soft spot for the picture. #painting 070
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Coffee Shop Laptop (Acrylic on canvas, board, 8 x 8 in.) First time I’ve used a fluorescent paint in the mix. I’m told it’s relatively archival in mixtures. #acrylicpainting #painting #art 0161
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Yummies (Acrylic and collage on block canvas, 24x30 cm) Another piece of Newcastle architecture. I love the disjunction of the cheap and brash modern fascia with the fake medievalism above. #painting #art #urbanart #northernart 070
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The Pontificator (Oil on board, dimensions n/k) Another old one, from even longer ago than the previous two. Cut down from its original size, after a slightly different version was painted. #painting #art 0211
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Jiggery Pokery (Oil on canvas, 24x24 in) Awful photograph, I know, but the multiple glazes and varnish defeated my photography skills. A curious one this, again from the turn of the century. Based on photos taken at the eponymous junkshop. #paintings #art 091
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The Duke (Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 ins.) An old (and gloomy) one from the turn of the century. The view is from inside the Duke of Wellington in Newcastle, the eponymous “Duke” is a fiction. #painting #art #northernart 0172
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The Domino Player (Mixed media on board, 8x8 in.) Not strictly speaking a portrait, but definitely from my imagination, so let’s keep the theme running. #painting 090
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The Green Children of Woolpit (acrylic on card, 10x10 in) Not exactly an imaginary portrait like the others I’ve posted, but seems to fit here. Inspired by real events in the 12th century (allegedly). #paintings #art 1110
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The Young Fisherman (Acrylic on board, 9 x 9 in) The boats were in Madeira, I think; the Fisherman was in my head. 020
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Redjacket (acrylic on canvas board, 8x8 in) One more imaginary portrait. #paintings 020
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025The Ethnologist (acrylic on canvas board, 8x8 in) Another imaginary portrait from 2020. #paintings 020
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025The Botanist (acrylic on canvas panel, 8x8 in) I’m in a creative low spot. Short of visual stimulus and not inclined to go out looking for it in this cold weather. Back in 2020, when going out wasn’t really an option, I turned inwards, to my imagination. This fellow was the result. 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Pollock’s Toy Museum (Acrylic on board, 10x10 in) I’m late to be posting my Xmas card here, but it holds up as a standalone painting, so here it is. #paintings 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024At the Lighting Emporium (Collage and acrylic, 12x22 in) I started this one in May last year and I finally gave in to its pleas for completion this week. A real curiosity in terms of technique and subject matter, I think. #painting 060
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Blue Pots alla prima (Acrylic on watercolour paper) Every year, Gateshead Art Society set an alla prima challenge - two hours for everyone to paint the same subject from a printed photograph. This is how mine turned out today. #paintings 070
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The trouble with spending most of your time making a painting for a Xmas card is that you can’t really reveal it until it’s printed and posted. #painting 010
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024A friend in Germany asked if I had any Xmas cards for sale, so I referred her to my account on LoveFromTheArtist. She tried to order and found they no longer deliver to Europe. Brexit just keeps on giving. lovefromtheartist.com/Artists/gate...lovefromtheartist.comArtist's PageContributing artist's page on LoveFromTheArtist.com 010
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024 Sawrey Farm (Oil on canvas, 61 x 48 cms) Another tree for National Tree Week 2024. 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Near the Rookery (Oil on canvas, 24x24 in) A tree for National Tree Week 2024. #painting 020
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024General Dealers (Acrylic on board, 10x10 in) SOLD, and off to its new home with a collector in Sunderland. #art #painting 1472
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Our street this morning, and my Xmas card from 2021. Not even raining now. 160
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In the Rice Museum (Acrylic on board, 12x12 in) Completed yesterday. I’m so relieved to be done with reflections on metal 😀 #art #smallpaintings #harrybellartist 190
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The Dotty House (Acrylic on board, 10x10 in) Another of my small paintings in the Gateshead Art Society show. I think I must have one leg longer than the other 😀 #GatesheadArtSociety #ShipleyArtGallery #harrybellartist 020
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Three of my small paintings currently on show as part of Gateshead Art Society’s annual exhibition at Shipley Art Gallery. #GatesheadArtSociety #ShipleyArtSociety #smallpaintings 071
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My two paintings now hanging in the cafe area of Newcastle Arts Centre as part of the current exhibition. #artshow #artforsale 040
Reposted by Harry BellJanet E Davis @janetedavis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Not long now until Ouseburn Open Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. I’m in B.Box Studios (next to the Biscuit Factory, down the ramp/steps on Stoddart St, or up at the top of Bermondsey St). Open 10am to 5pm 23rd & 24th November 2024. 011
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024See you there? I have two paintings I hope will be hung. 010
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024We’ve been having some lovely and interesting blue skies recently. 030
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Now there seems to be increased movement to this platform, I figured I should look at it again. Hi out there! 010
Harry Bell @hrbell.bsky.social · 17/12/2023Christmas Lights (Acrylic on mountboard, 9x9 in) This year’s Xmas cards should have arrived at their destinations by now, so I can show the painting here now. Merry Xmas to one and all! 070
