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Martyn Lucas

@martynlucas.bsky.social
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Artist, Curator, Educator

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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 19h
Thank you Paula for the shout out and to everyone for your kind words. Apologies for my own laziness and lack of posting! If you are in Bolton on a Friday or Saturday afternoon until the 24th Oct then do pop in to the Hive Gallery, it would be lovely to see you!
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
⚪️ Drawing/Photo Mash-up. #sketchbook
A black & white mixed media, gestural sketch/drawing of an oak leaf on a thin branch, bare tree branches behind. The leaf is highlighted by a surrounding black rectangle. A black strip boarder on the right hand side & a small circle is cut out of the paper. Behind, white pigment & the edge of the rectangle, blurring the distinction between foreground & background. A black& white photograph of bare trees is super imposed over the drawing.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cold and white here today in Leigh #brrr
Mural of Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) in Leigh with snow in foreground and white cloudy sky
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Winter Portal ⚪️ #photography 📷
A digital collage.
A colour photograph of winter trees on on a foggy grey day in low light.
A circular photo of bare tree branches reflected in a puddle is overlaid onto the photo as if balancing on the horizontal branch across the photo.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year everyone! Here's a snap shot of some things I get up to on a Sunday morning in the studio #studiotime #collage #fragileearth
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Winter Solstice folks❄️ #Yuletide
Black & White double exposure photo.
Looking down at the top of a circular tree stump in a snowy hedgerow & a view of bare trees with arching branches covered in snow, almost like a bower. The circular & flat surface of the tree stump serves to frame the image overlaid of the avenue of snowy trees.
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The Turnpike Gallery @turnpikegallery.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Our gallery is closed after today until Tuesday 7th January, but you can still view HOME: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words on the outside of our building. #openeyegallery #leigh #wigan #ukraine #photography #poetry
Exterior of Turnpike Centre building with photographs and poems in the windows
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Ever fallen (in love)... #windythismorning
Fallen Christmas tree on town square
Christmas tree blown over by wind in front of a town hall
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Peter Doig, Pink Snow, 1991 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of David Teiger
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Camille Corot Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau
"Corot painted this study in the summer of 1832 or 1833 in Bas-Bréau, a section of Fontainebleau forest that was famous for its immense oak trees." (The Met)
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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Herbstabend auf Alsen, Emil Nolde 1903
Herbstabend auf Alsen, Emil Nolde  1903
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WJB @wjbphoto.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Moody #SkySunday
B&W image looking across a frozen over lake with a partial tree in the top right hand corner and a moody dark sky.
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
'Wild Pool' Mixed media on Paper Private Collection.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings
B&W digital photography collage.
Two photos adjacent to each other.
One third of the photo is looking up at the branches of a bare oak tree against a cloudy sky. The other a close shot of an oak leaf balanced upright on a curved branch with woodland trees blurred in the background. The curve of the branch lines up with the thick branch of the adjacent photo. A visual dialogue.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The Pearls. Collage from discarded art books. #titian #coello #studiosunday #collage
Collage of old master image fragments with a hand and pearls
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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 12/12/2024
Feeling a strong need to go and clamber around some Welsh slate quarries in the fog... Dinorwig, January 2022
A working level within the huge Dinorwig slate quarry in Eryri / Snowdonia. Jagged slate and looming mist make it resemble an inhospitable alien planet. A solitary bare conifer and some scrubby grasses the only colour in an otherwise monochrome and darkly shadowed scene.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Involuntary painting ✨ 📷 #noticing
Abstract detail of the side of a metal skip, badly scratched and rusting. The sunlight hits the top half aligning with a horizontal seam in the metal, the rest in shadow.
The gouges & scratches seem like drawn gestural marks & the horizontal seam & light give the impression of a landscape.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Father Christmas is out again! Another year survived in the loft, a Christmas miracle. 53years of dragging that lolly stick sleigh😭 Bravo Martyn on your childhood skills☺️ @martynlucas.bsky.social
A homemade worn & battered Father Christmas made from a toilet roll, crepe paper & cotton wool dragging a lolly stick sleigh with tiny presents.
He looks like his life is a misery.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Congratulations to children from Sacred Heart school who have contributed drawings to Keely Hodgkinson's plaque on our Wall of Fame in Leigh. An 'Our Art Neighbourhood' project with Leigh Neighbours started four years ago, Keely is the 15th person to be included in the mural. #communityart #leigh
children standing in front of a plaque which includes their drawings of olympic athlete Keely Hodgkinson
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Shoals of Autumn leaves 🍂 #photography #noticing 📷
Looking into the water of a pond. Many yellow and gold autumn leaves under the surface of the water as if swimming fishes. Nearby trees golden from the sun, overhanging bare branches and a blue sky are reflected in the water.
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Simon Denis, Landscape near Rome during a Storm Flemish, ca. 1786–1806
"Denis painted the majority of his informal nature studies out of doors. Notations on the back of this example, however, indicate that he based it on a drawing that he had previously made in the countryside near Rome while observing the phenomenon of passing rain accompanied by a rainbow. The horses and rider fleeing the storm are a motif borrowed from the seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin." (The Met)
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Peter Doig, Daytime Astronomy, 1997 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
Presented by the artist and Charles Booth-Clibborn 1998
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you’re looking for a fabulous gift this Christmas, I can’t recommend Nick’s book enough @northernmailman.bsky.social Packed with nostalgia, wit & genuine relatable voices. Loved it!
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Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 29/11/2024
It’s tough being an artist these days, as confirmed by this new research published in Artnet: U.K. Artists’ Earnings Dropped 40 Percent Since 2010. Some 80 percent of artists surveyed reported that their earnings were “unstable” or “very unstable.” news.artnet.com/art-world/uk...
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U.K. Artists' Earnings Dropped 40 Percent Since 2010. Will They Stick Around? | Artnet News
A new U.K. artist income survey from Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (CREATe) found a 40 percent median income drop since 2010.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings
Two B&W photos joined together.
The top photo of a telegraph pole by a hedgerow & low cumulus cloud catching the light in a clear sky.
Below that an abstract detail of the lines & swirls in a frozen puddle, a darker section lines up to the bottom of telegraph pole as if one photo.
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colin @clcart.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
slipway (day 91) #photography #OneCameraOneLens #photooftheday #365project #nature www.clcart.co.uk/post/one-a-d...
A red kayak rests on a sandy beach, angled towards the water's edge. The water is calm and clear, with a gentle gradient from light blue to dark blue. The beach is pebbled, and a small concrete structure extends into the water. The sky is overcast and pale.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/12/2024
Trees in Fog, Chile, 1939 by John Swope
tall trees shrouded in fog.
a tiny car on the road below adds scale
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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mountain Landscape I, Emil Nolde c.1948
Mountain Landscape I, Emil Nolde  c.1948
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Twenty five years ago today this marvellous human arrived into our lives❤️ Happy Birthday Joe! @martynlucas.bsky.social
 A composite photo of nine different shots of a small boy.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Remembering with love good friends gone & celebrating those living life to the fullest ❤️❤️❤️ #NoMoreStigma
A red AIDS ribbon on a coat lapel.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A powerful and moving exhibition of Ukrainian photography curated by Max Gorbatskyi & Viktoria Bavykina at the Turnpike Gallery. Delighted to host this show from Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool before its final display at UK Parliament in March 2025. #leigh #wigan #photography #ukraine #contemporaryart
two large photos of LGBTQI+ soldiers on green wall with four photos of damaged road signs in Ukraine on background grey wall
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings
Two B&W photos joined together.
On the left a close shot of autumn leaves on a thin branch with a snowy blurred flat landscape behind. On the right a close shot of a small double daisy head with ice particles on a slim stem. The photos join at the point where branch and stem meet.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
All change at the gallery. One exhibition taken down and a new one to install for Saturday. More painting of walls still to do. This is an in-between moment. #curatorslife
2 blue chairs in an art gallery in front of a bright orange wall, next to a green wall, on a grey floor. All clean and tidy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/11/2024
Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010
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Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010
Report says funding cuts, inflation and rise of AI contributing to median income dropping to £12,500 Earnings for visual artists in Britain have plunged by 40% since 2010, with experts predicting a “talent drain” from the UK because EU countries offer…
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Laurie Anderson last night 🤍 ARK: United States V a show that gives you an insight into her brain…synapses sparking!
Laurie Anderson in silhouette on stage playing an electric violin, light rays from above & a large fabricated cloud. Heads of the audience in the foreground.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Landscape Dialogues. #photography #BNW 📷 #Ideasfordrawings
Two B&W photos joined together.
The top photo of a bare twisted tree with trees & electricity pylons in the distance & a clear sky.
The bottom photo joining at the trunk of the tree, an abstract detail of a frozen puddle. The dark icy patterns spreading downwards as if roots of the tree.
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Portraits of Recovery @porecovery.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Last Chance to See Beyond the Surface 📣 Only a few days left to see Beyond the Surface at the #TurnpikeGallery, #Wigan. Explore 10 years of #FallenAngelsDanceTheatre & experience digital dance installation: Samadhi. Until 23 Nov. Find out more: portraitsofrecovery.org.uk/whats-on/bey...
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Something a bit different... Off and on over the last couple of years, I've worked with local children on developing a Wall of Fame in Leigh, celebrating local cultural and sporting heroes. Here are some drawings for the latest addition. Keely's plaque will be unveiled in a couple of weeks!
Children's drawings of athlete Keely Hodgkinson with Paris 24 olympics gold medal
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Plastic nature. #My400 📷
A discarded small green plastic tree lying amongst brown ferns & autumn leaves.
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Shona Grant @monde.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A few more from my trip to photograph the ancient oaks of Drum Wood in Aberdeenshire. They're amazing trees. They're like some sort of huge tentacled whippy crazy creatures. Well worth a visit if you're in Aberdeenshire, even on a dull overcast day like this was. #trees #oaks #photography 🌳📷
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Dr Susan Jones @susandrjonesarts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just published @theguardian.com #artistslivelihoods hampered by #artspolicy favouring of #artsinstutions www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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WJB @wjbphoto.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
15 minutes can make a difference… #SkySunday
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NotQuiteLight @notquitelight.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Manchester / Salford tomorrow, 18th November, 2024 First Light: 06.18 Sunrise: 07.40 Sunset: 16.07 Nightfall: 17.29 Pic: Bridgewater Canal, #Salford
M60 Motorway bridge over the Bridgewater Canal at Worsley. It's a yellowy orange picture due to the sodium light, and Autumnal atmosphere. The trees are halfway through losing their leaves. There are no people. The water is still.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Studio time. Another collage with a brooding, melancholic feel; partly from the images I'm using (discarded old books featuring Renaissance painters) and partly because they are imbued with a sense of our current political & environmental situation. #fragileearth #woundedlandscape #collage #drowning
Collage using found images. Below, a fragment of painting by Constable featuring trees. Above, a partially hidden face withing a cascading red wall of cloth from the sky
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Involuntary painting ✨ 📷
Abstract photo of aqua & blue distressed peeling metallic paint, with areas of the silver metal exposed.
A darker area of blue cuts across almost serving as a horizon in a seascape.
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J. Ashley Nixon @jashleynixon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Interstitial Upper Kananaskis Lake Alberta, Canada
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Sit awhile 🍂 #photography 📷
A white metal stool beside a small beech tree on the edge of woodland on a mid Autumn day.
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Martyn Lucas @martynlucas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Studio time. The Watcher. Collage using found images from old art books. #woundedlandscape #gordalescar #jamesward #grunewald
Paper collage using old images of paintings in art books. A dark landscape with a brooding pair of eyes 'watching'.
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Involuntary painting ✨ 📷
Abstract colour photo of layers of rust & metal with black peeling paint.
Could be viewed as an abstract landscape under a dark sky.
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Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Rain (Study) www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/rai…
Rain (Study)
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