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@jonthomson.bsky.social
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thomson & craighead: www.thomson-craighead.net / Making art in someone else's world. also @jonandali on IG and @jonandali@mastodon.scot

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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Easy does it
A woman edging along a flooded path by holding onto the railing moving from right to left. The concrete path is under a road bridge where a fast flowing river runs from left to right behind the woman. Trees and a rocky river bank beyond
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Late night amphibian
A toad seen from above at a back door at night with the porch light on. A geranium in a terracotta pot and some herbs in a wooden rectangular planter
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fermented stuffed peppers (Ukrainian recipe) are beginning their sweet sour spicy journey
Fermented stuffed peppers (Ukrainian recipe) in a 5litre kilner jar
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Loch Achilty is cooling down 😥
Two swimmers sillouetted in the shallow waters of Loch Achilty. Sun behind is in shot above a diagonal hill line running down from right to left
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cruise liner blasting Barry Manilow into the glen and Loch Broom the other day. Should've been Dolly Parton at least
A cruise ship anchored in a Scottish glen seen from above. Heather in the foreground. A strong curving hillline and a bright cloudy sky
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Andrew Heard at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London
A self portrait by Andrew heard. A blue strip along the top of the square canvas with a yellow cartoonish head floating in the middle. Two line drawing of a sitting male figure are in the bottom left and right with text A detail of the bottom left figure, the text reads 'sometimes I think I'm the only person on earth and everyone else are robits' The other figure on bottom right, the text reads, 'and sometimes I think don't be so stupid'
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Breakfast of champions
Two slices of pizza on a white plate seen from above
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Time of the wild garlic again
Lots of wild garlic leaves in a silver bowl on a table with Swedish geometric design table cloth. Aerial view
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Felices Fiestas!
A plastic troll on a shelf with a Santa hat on with lanterns behind a brass plate on the right side and a photograph of a saint on the left
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Tis the season...
White paper Christmas paper wheels strung up above with lights and with dried orange slices in between.
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Red cabbage sauerkraut in the making. Used the two percent rule for the ferment 🤞
A glass kimchi jar with a red top packed full of red cabbage sauerkraut. White tiles  behind the jar
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Claire Fontaine at mimosa house, London
A variation on Duchamp's defaced mona lisa where the letters along the bottom now read, 'LGBTQ+
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Dom Sylvester Houédard typewriter drawing in the V&A drawing room
A black and white drawing of three distorted cubes with a snaking linear ribbon variously tracing a path around and over these images of cuboids. The entire drawing made using a manual typewriter
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Colquhoun is a must see if you can at Tate Britain ♥️
An esoteric painting by ithell Colquhoun -three disks with interconnecting strands seemingly floating in a landscape of a hillside horizon with a dusk or dawn sky to the right
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Farewell Scottish Highlands. Until then ♥️
A gravel path, heather either side. A very long view of the sea beyond, some islands and a tiny looking ferry heading towards the horizon in the distance
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Near Suilven in Assynt yesterday. September transitions in full swing as we race towards Alban Elfed in a week or so
The rounded humps of a mountain silhouetted in the distance. Lochan and trees in the foreground. Cloudy sky with some blue. Strong light from a lowish sun
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Farewell summertime...
A beach in the Scottish Highlands at sunset. A few clouds, the low sun reflected by the incoming tide, a low hill line in the distance. Orange and pale blue
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Plockton dusk approaching
A calm reflective sea, boats, clouds and a blue sky paling towards the horizon. Hills in the background in silhouette but the furthest of them in sunshine as the sun slowly sets behind
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Boiling some water for morning camping coffee in bed
Looking over a camping stove, pot, and a water bottle from inside the awning of a tent with grass, dunes, a glimpse of beach and the sea beyond. A pale blue sky with ribbons of cloud
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This 475 year old Spanish Chestnut tree in Strathpeffer lost two big boughs to Storm Floris a couple of weeks ago. Summer storms
A massive Spanish chestnut tree with two boughs broken off on the ground in front, already chopped up a bit by a tree surgeon earlier. More trees behind and blue sky and cloud above A massive Spanish chestnut tree with two boughs broken off on the ground in front, already chopped up a bit by a tree surgeon earlier. This is a close up of what has fallen to the tround. More trees behind
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Lurch
A detail of a pile of logs photographed ends on. One end is sprayed orange with the word, 'larch' although it looks like, 'lurch'
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Sorrel muthiya. Only two pieces left!
Two pieces of an Indian snack called muthiya on a white plate with some crumbs around it. Seen in medium close up at an angle from above
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Summer fruit, salad leaves, edible flowers and mangetout. It's all happening :)
Blackcurrants and some leaves in a sieve shot from above A salad in a steel bowl photographed from above.leaves and flowers A compote of summer fruit in a saucepan photographed from above Mangetout just picked and photographed from above in a sieve
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just back from the PV and amazingly we won the Photography Prize 🏆
Seen from behind, Tltwo women looking at a photographic light box at an exhibition opening with work either side of them
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Scottish Landscape Awards exhibition opens tomorrow in Kirkcudbright Gallery, Scotland. Our work, 'Gas Giant's (2022) is part of it. PV and awards announced this afternoon 3pm+
A photograph of a pebble in a black void. It looks a bit like a gas giant planet
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Ali investigates....
A woman standing in front of the large carcass of a wooden boat beached with the tide out. In the Scottish Highlands west coast landscape
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
First pickings for compote
A blue bowl full of blackcurrants on a geometric patterned table cloth shot from above.
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Edible garden update in the Scottish Highlands
Mangetout plants flowering trained by bamboo canes seen slightly from above Blackcurrants in close up leaves all around, still ripeningCavalo Nero leave finally shooting up seen in close up A close up of a gooseberry plant, some gooseberries slowly ripening
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The longest day
A hill and some trees in sillouette on the far shore of a small lochan. The Sun behind the trees and a glowing blue white evening sky
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Late last night in the Scottish Highlands. The longest day is nearly here..
Hills in the distance below a pale blue sky and hazy clouds. A rowan tree flanks the left side of the image, a silver birch flanks the right side. The very low sun casts a glow and shadows across the scene. It's around 22.45hrs near the summer solstice
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Pesto time in the Scottish Highlands
A close up of a stack of garden herbs, fennel fronds, rocket, parsley, chives
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Unceremonious but pretty decent Pav Bhaji, Inverness. The Scottish softie ideal as the toasted bread element
A cardboard food tray with half eaten Indian street food snack on it called Pav Bhaji, some chutney, a red brown curry and a white soft bread roll. The curry is a little bit smeared into the adjacent food tray pockets. A wooden spoon is stick into the curry and exits the left side of the image
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Big boat in Ullapool
A large fishing vessel in harbour with hills behind, white clouds and a big blue sky
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
New kimchi jars. Feeling like pros
Two glass jars with red plastic lids and rubber valves in the top and packed with kimchi. Orange and white. A wooden board underneath and a defocused kitchen worktop in the background
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
'Gas Giant' (2022) will be included in this year's Scottish Landscape Awards exhibition opening in July @kirkcudbrightgalleries #scotlandawards
A black and white photograph of a pebble made to look like an astronomical body in the void of deep spaceA lightbox in a gallery with the cable to it dropping to the wooden floor. On the lightbox is the image of a pebble shot as if it is an astronomical body in the void of deep space
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Puffins on a cliff edge with the landforms of Fair Isle beyond and the sea and the horizon and steely grey sky
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
South coast stacks on Fair Isle yesterday
Pyramidal stacks poking up from a choppy sea with cliffs to the right, a hazy pale blue sky and further crags in the foreground on the left and the right. A gliding seagull is also caught in the relative foreground flying away from us.
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The boat came in so the shop is stocked up. Heading there now... #fairisle
A winding sunny lane. A bluesky, a few cotton wool clouds. Cliffs in the distance to the left and a gentle hill line to the middle and right. a few houses below the hill line. wooden fence posts either side of the road and a stone dykevon the right. grass lands
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Final approach to Fair Isle; three miles long and with a population of around fifty-five. Home for the next two weeks while filming
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Delays at Tingwall airport on Shetland
A small room in magnolia, notice boards and a table laden with leaflets. A man stands in front of two women seated against the wall with a glass screen above them. Suitcase and bag against the far wall. This is Tingwall airport on Shetland
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It's wild garlic time in the garden 🥰
A bunch of wild garlic on a grey work top photographed from above
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Really good Donald Rodney exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. Go go go see ❤️
A motorised wheelchair in front of two monochromatic painting/drawings. A polished wooden floor and white walls
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A short sweet and athletic program of two works from the Trisha Brown dance company last night at Sadlers Wells 💯
Eight humans in a line in a large blue lit stage. You can pick out some of the audience in the darkness Infront and below. Blackness looms overhead
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Three super improvised sets at, 'a moment's notice'tonight. Amp Studios, Old Kent Road. Nice!
A trio of musicians (double bass, guitar, percussion) performing in a railway arch. Moody orange lighting and audience In foreground on folding chairs
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Ali's up a hill
A figure walking up a rocky hill with a sea loch and peninsula behind grey rolling clouds
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dusk earlier
Birch trees sillouetted by a glowing pink band of cloud above a dipping hill line. Rust red dead bracken in the foreground woodland
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Austin Osman Spare's training tarot deck he made for himself. Part of the Tarot exhibition @warburginstitute.bsky.social ❤️
A grid of annotated tarot cards drawn by the artist Austin Osman Spare in a vitrine. The top two rows are a selection of major arcana cards. Yellow background with each illustration outlined and then coloured in. The bottom row are adapted playing cards acting as minor arcana where drawn elements continue across multiple cards
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Bright and fading winter dusks. Northwest Scottish Highlands
A harbour at dusk under a clear winter sky, the blue of above and below mirroring each other. A grass lawn runs down from the sash window that frames this view seen from the inside seemingly right down to the waters edge. Pinkness blushes close to the horizon
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thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The lighthouse at Rubha Réidh yesterday.
A lighthouse on grassy headland on a clear blue day with calm seas and a near cloudless sky. Rocks can be seen in the foreground and a tarmac lane on the left. You can't see if it runs down to the lighthouse but it almost certainly does
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