Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A leafy lane at the end of September, oil on canvas. #LandscapeArt 071
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A small canvas, 20x20cm capturing #golden hour on a summer’s evening. #BlueSkyArtShow Oil on canvas board. 1143
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtWren @housewren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#BlueSkyArtShow Saturday August 29, 2026 The theme is #Summer Figure inspired by a photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue of Renee Perle, French Riveria, early 1930s. Background inspired by a pattern from Marimekko. #watercolor and pen 0113
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtEmily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"This Guest Of Summer - Housemartin" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p71/ho... #summer #BlueSkyArtShow #SmallBirdSaturday #art 05710
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I painted this to have as something to stare at in the depths of winter - a reminder of #summer green “Let me Lie here Holding on to Shades of Green” #BlueSkyArtShow #AcrylicPainting 0110
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Work in progress; shades of green. A step back to those early days of summer when the landscape was lush. 020
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026When life gives you lemons; paint them. Watercolour and mixed media. #watercolour #mixedmedia 051
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026#BlueSkyArtShow painting clear #glass isn’t always easy but I’m pleased with the vase in this. I started with a background of tiles that I transferred to the watercolour paper. This really helps the illusion of transparency. #WatercolourAndMixedMedia #MixedMedia 0101
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Shades of green, sketches for something bigger #MixedMedia #AbstractLandscape 120
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“Over in The Long Grass” Collage and mixed media #curlew #mixedmedia 020
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Summer Field - collage, print and pastel #MixedMedia 020
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Some more vivid late spring coloured mixed media studies. Just loving the mix of green, yellow, blue and violet #MixedMedia 040
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I’ve been trying to capture the #edge that’s created when the sun shines from behind and illuminates hillsides and dark clouds #BlueSkyArtShow #Watercolour #MixedMedia 0100
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Watercolour textures #sketchbook #watercolour #abstract 091
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The #background to my lunch break between classes last week; Bardsea beach and Morecambe bay beyond. #BlueSkyArtShow #LandscapeArt #Watercolour 0170
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Celebrating the return of Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture; Oval Form (Trezion) to Abbot Hall Gallery. Charcoal sketches, paper models and drawings of #Flowing lines #BlueSkyArtShow #BarbaraHepworth 1101
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Apple Acrylic background, neocolor crayons and artgraf 000
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Snowdrops for Imbolc. Spring is close, the light returns. simple embroidery and appliqué on a base of Manx Patchwork #TextileArt #Imbolc #Snowdrops #Embroidery 093
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtTisha Mark @tishamark.com · 31/01/2026My obsession with painting light is related to my love for #clouds, for the effect they have on light. Here's a peaceful one for you. Tisha Mark ©2025, A Day to Remember, oil on linen, 16"x20" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/a-da... #BlueSkyArtShow #art #painting #SciArt #bsnm 619940
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtRosemary Allison @rozesall.bsky.social · 31/01/2026#BlueskyArtShow #Clouds mixed media painting of clouds over mountains. 07912
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtGina Kellogg @gsew.bsky.social · 31/01/2026#blueskyartshow #clouds Art quilt landscape. #artquilt #quiltsky #landscape 810911
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Storm #Clouds over Calf Top, Cumbria. Acrylic on canvas #BlueSkyArtShow #AcrylicPainting #landscape #cloudscape 0140
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...petition.parliament.ukPetition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another partyWhen an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their... 771391693
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 10/01/2026…but it won’t pass unless we push it 📣 Email your MP before Wed. Please. It takes seconds to email them and could make the world of difference… Just hit the link below: www.compassioninpolitics.com/write_mp_acc...compassioninpolitics.comThe Public Accountability Bill AmendmentAsk your MP to support a ban on lying in politics today. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law would make it a criminal offence for politicians and parliamentary candidates to deliberately mislead ... 2420895
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 10/01/2026A somewhat #Vibrant representation of a winter sunset through birch trees. Painted as an example for an exercise in gouache painting that I’m planning for my class next week. I got carried away with the colour - oops! #BlueSkyArtShow #Gouache 0170
Reposted by Karen Akers ArtBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Barbara Hepworth (1903-75), sculptor and artist, was born on this day in Wakefield. One of the foremost modernists of the 20th century. 421136
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Winter sunset. Gouache sketch on paper #gouache #Landscape 060
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 31/12/20252025 in 67 pages from this years nature sketchbook #ArtYear #sketchbook #nature 050
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 29/11/2025The #Warmth of frosty winter light on the last of the autumn leaves #BlueSkyArtShow #Watercolour 0170
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 22/11/2025@jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social thanks for the repost x 010
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Two of one hundred metal sculptures, part of Anthony Gormley’s Another Place. A 3km installation but taken in isolation each sculpture feels so #Small and alone when faced with nature, the sea and the sky. #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache 0181
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 08/11/2025@katherinemancuso.bsky.social thank you for the re-post 😊 010
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 08/11/2025#Evening in Seillans, Provence. A watercolour study from my holiday sketchbook. #BlueSkyArtShow 0201
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Autumn in north west England, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #WatercolourArt 0241
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Sketchbook studies in gouache #inside #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #sketchbook 0313
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 18/10/2025This is a work in progress but I thought it fitted with the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #vertical so here you go. My work seems to have been somewhat preoccupied with trees lately. #watercolour #Mixedmedia #Painting #art 0190
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025So proud of this collaborative charcoal collage. Made this morning at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal and inspired by the Simon Starling Boat Works exhibition. This is our floating island. #CollaborativeArt #Collage #Charcoal #ArtYear 041
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Lazy summer days under a canopy of green #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow gouache sketchbook study. #gouache #painting 0150
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles Rows of plane trees #WatercolourSketch #SketchbookStudy #PenAndWash #ArtYear 0151
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 13/09/2025#Home The landscape of Cumbria and The Lake District. This is the view from the field near our house, a view I never grow tired of. #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear 0230
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Dappled light through leafy trees, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #ArtYear 0160
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 05/09/2025August, captured in pen and paint. So much early fruit this year! #NatureJournal #ArtDiary #ArtYear 091
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025A bientôt Provence. My family are not early risers so each morning, armed with a cup of coffee, a pain au raisin, the view or photos taken the day before, I spend an indulgent hour recording memories. 030
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Le Ciel et Rose - Grasse. I’m working from photographs taken the previous day - ain’t no way I’m drawing en plein air in this heat! Il fait très chaud! 🥵 #holidaysketchbook #penandwash #provence #ArtYear 0100
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025My little Provençal sketchbook #ArtYear #HolidaySketching 060
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Some studies made on Saturday at Abbot Hall Gallery. Sound drawings made outside in the grounds and then two pieces influenced by Thistles by Frederick Cuming and the sounds of the gallery. #ArtYear #SketchBook 020
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025July in six pages from my #NatureSketchbook #ArtYear #NatureDiary 020
Karen Akers Art @k-akersart.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I spent a long time on this. It’s a 60th birthday present for a special friend. Her favourite place, Trevone Bay in Cornwall. #ArtYear #Scape #AcrylicPainting 090
