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Rather Good Art

@rathergoodart.bsky.social
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Publishers of rather good greetings cards, postcards & prints by Ravilious, Nash, Klimt, Simon Palmer and many more. www.rathergoodart.co.uk

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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like an abelone-stuffed sea otter - I'm starting with ‘Lady of Shalott’, Edward Robert Hughes, oil on canvas, painted between 1888 and 1905. Available as a single card or as part of the Edward Robert Hughes Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/edwa...
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a suet-stuffed long-tailed tit - I'm starting with a reminder that we have 11 calendars available for 2027, including two from Eric Ravilious, a Simon Palmer, a Paul Evans, and many more. Well, seven. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product-cate...
A selection of eleven art calendars from Rather Good Art.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a but-stuffed dormous - I'm starting with ‘La Merenda’ Elin Danielson-Gambogi, oil on canvas, 1904. Available as a single card or as part of the Elin Danielson-Gambogi Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/elin... #elindanielsongambogi #greetingscardsuk
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a prickly-pear stuffed javelina - I'm starting with ‘Senju Waterfall, Akami’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1951. Available as a card, print, postcard and bookmark. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/senj... #hasuikawase #woodblock #woodblockprint
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Introducing the Adrian Sykes Calendar for 2027. A new calendar from the Bristol artist Adrian Sykes, featuring twelve of his finest imaginative, idiosyncratic and on occasion icy images. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #adriansykes #calendar
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like fern-stuffed okapi - I'm starting with ‘Farm in the Valley’, Valerius De Saedeleer, oil on canvas, 1916. Available as a a pack of four winter/Christmas cards. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/chri... #valeriusdesaedeleer #snowart #christmascards
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a sapodilla-stuffed spider monkey - I'm starting with ‘Pennine Railway’, Simon Palmer, watercolour, ink and gouache, 2003. This pack contains four A6 cards printed on Invercote card stock. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo...
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a crustacean-stuffed curlew - I'm starting with ‘The Vicarage in Winter’ Eric Ravilious, watercolour, 1935. Available as a pack of four cards & envelopes. A donation from each sale goes to the housing charity Shelter. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/eric...
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a huhu-grub stuffed tuatara - I'm starting with ‘Midsummer Eve’, Edward Robert Hughes, watercolour and gouache, 1908. Available as a single card or as part of the new Edward Robert Hughes Greetings Card Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/edwa...
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a plankton-stuffed vendace - I'm starting with ‘The Tall Trees’ Valerius de Saedeleer, etching and aquatint, 1930s. A donation from each sale goes to the housing charity Shelter. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/vale... #valeriusdesaedeleer #christmascards
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a date-stuffed Fennec fox - I'm starting with ‘A Grand Day Out’, Mark Harrison, oil on board. Available as a single card, or as part of the Mark Harrison Coastal Collection. Have a splendid day. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/mark... #brighton #brightonarts
A figure on a bench on a shingle Brighton beach. To their left, a small fishing boat, in front, a large bank of 'interesting' sky.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a bilberry stuffed capercaillie - I'm starting with ‘Halstead Road in Snow’ Eric Ravilious, watercolour, 1935. Available as a four pack of Christmas cards, with a donation from each sale going to the charity Shelter. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/eric...
Halstead Road in Snow - a watercolour by Eric Ravilious depicting a yellow Georgian house on a snowy night.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope you slept like a grunt-stuffed vaquita - I'm starting with L. birge Harrison's ‘Old Oaks Defiance, Woodstock, Vermont’. Available as a pack of four cards, with a donation from each sale going to the housing charity Shelter. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/chri... #snowart #winterart
A snowy hillside, a farmhouse on the left, and old oak, hanging onto its last few leaves to the right. Oil on canvas.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LAST DAY OF THE 30% DISCOUNT SALE. Good morning - I hope you slept like a kelp swaddled sea-otter - just letting you know that the 30% Discount Sale closes tonight at midnight, if you haven't yet had a chance to swan around our shop, picking up bargains like autumn leaves. www.rathergoodart.co.uk
A Ravilious watercolour of a flint-knapped cottage below the Sussex downs. A figure is in the garden looking back towards the house, seemingly satisfied with their morning's digging, and the view.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ANNOUNCING THE AUTUMN 30%DISCOUNT SALE! Apologies for raising my voice - I just didn't want you to miss it, as it's probably the last one of the year. Come and spend an adle five minutes perusing our cards, Christmas cards, board prints, bookmarks and jigsaw puzzles. www.rathergoodart.co.uk
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a suet-stuffed long-tailed tit - I'm starting with ‘The Library of Thorvald Boeck’, Harriet Backer, 1902. Available as a single greetings card, or as part of the Harriet Backer Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/harr... #harrietbacker #libraryart
An oil painting by Harriet Backer depicting a friend's library. Sunlight enters through a window on the left, illuminating the green foliage of a houseplant, a table set with four chairs, and behind, rows of enticing books.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Introducing the Paul Evans Calendar for 2027: We're happy to announce the new Paul Evans Calendar - twelve beautiful images printed using archival quality inks on 170 gsm satin paper from the truly arresting Paul Evans. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/paul... #paulevans #Calendar2027 #calendar2027
The cover art for the Paul Evans Calendar 2027, depicting a low September moon over a harvested field. An oast house and farm building occupy the centre frame. All is good.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a clam-stuffed puffer-fish - I'm starting with Simon Palmer's captivating 'Low Thorpe', available as a greetings card or print. Have a magnificent Sunday! www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo... #simonpalmer #simonpalmerart
A watercolour by Simon Palmer - a view down a quiet lane - trees form a tunnel, autumn colours abound.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning. I hope you slept like a plum-stuffed badger - I'm starting with Paul Nash's captivating ‘Wittenham Clumps’, watercolour, ink and chalk on paper, 1912. Available as a greetings card, and a bookmark. Have a splendid day. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/paul... #paulnash
A watercolour of Wittenham Clumps by Paul Nash. A hill rises, flanks of freshly ploughed fields surround a clump of trees on the crest; corvids abound.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning. I hope you slept like a daphnia-stuffed stickleback - I'm starting with the glorious ‘Bathsheba’, by the equally glorious Jo March. Available as a single card, board print, or part of the Jo March Moonlight Collection. Have a splendid day. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/jo-m...
A moonlit cottage in the cornish countryside. The moon is full, there is a patch of distant sea between the rolling hills. On the roof of a cottage, someone takes a bath.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a fruit-stuffed megapode - I'm starting with W. Paul Davis' enticing ‘An Autumn Idyll’, oil on board, 1891. Available as a single card or as part of the Autumn Greetings Card Collection No. 3. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/autu...
An oil painting by W. Paul Davis, depicting A heavy velvet curtain, a lustrous and indeed lush dresser, and a jack russell who's giving every indication of being a Very Good Dog, while we all know better. The living beings in the picture are placed in the open doorway of a garden room. The woman on the right glances towards us, while the dog is watching an apple tree, ready should a squirrel appear.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a fig-stuffed binturong - I'm starting with ‘Park in Autumn (detail)’, Michał Gorstkin-Wywiórski, oil on canvas, 1900. Have a splendid Available as a single greetings card, or as part of the Autumn Collection No. 3. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/autu...
A figure and a hound walk down and avenue of trees, the ground littered with golden leaves.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a lichen-stuffed caribou - I'm starting with the remarkable Simon Palmer's equally remarkable 'The Estate Plantation', which coincidentallygraces the November page of the Simon Palmer Calendar for 2027. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #simonpalmer
A planted woodland scene - many bare trunks rising from the bottom and disappearing at the top of the frame. The ground is littered with brown and russet leaves. In the distance, wooded hill.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a crustacean-stuffed curlew - I'm starting with ‘Ushibori in the Rain’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1929. Available as a single card, or part of the Hasui Kawase Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/hasu... #hasuikawase #rain
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're having a RAINY DAY POSTCARD AND BOOKMARK SALE to celebrate the kind of grey, rainy Sunday that, for a little while there, was but a distant dream under the baking sun. Ends tonight! (Apologies - didn't mean to end on an apocalyptic sounding note). www.rathergoodart.co.uk
‘The Yerres, Effect of Rain’, Gustave Caillebotte. A light rain falls on the surface of a canal. In the foreground a towpath, on the far banks, green trees. Emerald is the prevailing colour. All is well.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a liana-stuffed lemur - I'm starting with ‘Farm House and Field’, Eric Ravilious, watercolour, 1941. Available as a single card, or as part of the Ravilious in Bloom Postcard Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/eric...
A Ravilious watercolour depicting a hedgerow in bloom, with a farmhouse on the horizon, and one of his 'clever skies'.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Afternoon all - here's the rather splendid ‘Matin à Villeneuve (From Waters Edge)’, Henri Biva, oil on canvas, 1905, which graces the cover and the month of June of the Rather Good Art 2027 calendar. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #henribiva #rathergoodart #rathergoodartcalendar
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's Paul Nash's 'Wittenham' - you can almost smell the turf breathing out as the deep grey clouds move in. This one's available as a single card, or as part of the Paul Nash Landscape Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/paul... #paulnash #paulnashartist #chalkdowns #wittenham
A Paul Nash watercolour depicting a clump of beech trees at the top of a chalky rise. Rain is on the way.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning. I hope you slept like a plum-stuffed badger - I'm starting with George Clausen's, ‘Sunrise in September’, oil on canvas, 1924. Also available as part of the George Clausen Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/geor... #autumn #autumn🍁 #sunrise #sunriseart #georgeclausen
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a midge-stuffed pipistrelle - I'm starting with J. A. Grimshaw's ‘In the Golden Olden Times’, oil on canvas, 1870. This also graces the September page of the JOHN ATKINSON GRIMSHAW CALENDAR for 2027. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/john... #johnatkinsongrimshaw
‘In the Golden Olden Times’, oil on canvas, 1870. A view down a leaf strew road lined with nearly bare trees, their leaves lying below. On the right is a large decorative building, on the left the figure of an adult and child - all is suffused by a warm amber light.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a seed-stuffed snow bunting - I'm starting with David Inshaw’s rather brilliant depiction of a charm of 28 goldfinches. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/davi... #goldfinch #goldfinches #birdart #birdartist #davidinshaw
A David Inshaw painting of 28 goldfinches and one robin, overfling some flowering thistles.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a grass-stuffed springbok - I'm starting with John Atkinson Grimshaw's ambrosially amber ‘An Autumn Lane’. Available as a single card or as part of the John Atkinson Grimshaw Collection Part 4. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/john... #johnatkinsongrimshaw
An evening in autumn by artist John Atkinson Grimshaw. Tall trees line a quiet road, their leaves fallen to the ground. In the foreground a figure makes their way towards the viewer, all is golden.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a truffle-stuffed boar - I'm starting with ‘The Pilgrimage of Philanthropic Philosophers’ by the ever remarkable Simon Palmer. Available as a greetings card, and also graces the cover of the Simon Palmer Calendar for 2027. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo...
‘The Pilgrimage of Philanthropic Philosophers’ Simon Palmer, ink, watercolour and gouache. The pilgrims in the lower part of the picture move along a winding, uphill track between tall trees and freshly mown grasslands. Three rust red tractors can be seen.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a clam stuffed hermit crab - I'm starting with Hasui Kawase's brilliantly coloured ‘After Drizzle in Autumn, Nazen Ji Temple, Kyoto’, woodblock print, 1933. Have a splendid day. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/hasu... #woodblock #colourwoodblock #hasuikawase
Hasui Kawase's brilliantly coloured woodblock of Nazen Ji Temple, Japan.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
'Gleaning the Seed', Simon Palmer, ink, watercolour. This rare beauty is the October image from the new Simon Palmer Calendar for 2027. Three scarecrows in the one field, not scaring the crows. There's a story there, for your own making. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #simonpalmer
A Simon Palmer painting in greens and umbers, depicting three scarecrows in a field with some very unscared crows.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a suet-stuffed starling - I'm starting with Henri Le Sidaner's subdued yet striking ‘Canal in Autumn’, oil on canvas, 1913. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/autu... #henrilesidaner #autumn🍁 #autumn #autumnart #autumnartwork
Henri Le Sidaner's subdued but captivating oil rendition of a canal in autumn. All is umber, tall tree line the left bank, a building fills the right, all are reflected on the surface of the water.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good morning. I hope you slept like a daphnia-stuffed stickleback - I'm starting with ‘The Branch Line Railway Restoration’ Simon Palmer, watercolour, gouache and ink. Available as a greetings card, and also part of our 30% sale, which ends at midnight. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo...
‘The Branch Line Railway Restoration’ Simon Palmer, watercolour, gouache and ink. The painting depicts a brick-built railway bridge on a quiet road, with trees either side, and a small caravan on the left bank.
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#simonpalmer #simonpalmerart #samuelpalmer #englishlandscape #watercolour #watercolor #watercolourpainting #watercolorpainting #watercolourartist #watercolorartist #gouache #treepaintings #treesofintagram #watercolourist #watercolorist #britishart #watercolourart #oilpainting #landscapepainting #landscapeart #countryside #perspective #perspectivepainting #texture #countrylanes #shadows
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a suet-stuffed starling - I'm starting with George Clausen's magnificently hazy 'The Road, Winter Morning'. Available as part of our not quite over, but nearly over 30% discount sale. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/geor... #GeorgeClausen #greetingscardsuk
An oil painting by George Clausen depicting a hazy winter morning - a road leads away from us, upon it cart, to the right a collection of houses. The trees either side of the road are hanging onto the very last of their leaves.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like fern-stuffed okapi - I'm starting with 'Saturday Afternoon' by Simon Palmer - part of our 30% DISCOUNT SALE, Don'tcha know. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo... #simonpalmer #simonpalmerart
A Simon Palmer watercolour depicting a quiet country lane in which a five bar gate hangs open. The shadows appear to be coming from more than one light source.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like fern-stuffed okapi! It's true - we're holding a 30% discount sale on all of our cards, postcards, board prints, bookmarks and jigsaw puzzles! And don't fret - the young man will shortly stop wishing he'd never been Bjorn. www.rathergoodart.co.uk
A mother and son in a brightly lit summer garden, reading and drinking tea, which may or may not be causing hallucinations.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a pollen stuffed rose chafer. I'm starting with the cool, shady 'The Towpath' by the brilliant Simon Palmer. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #simonpalmer
A painting by Simon Palmer, depicting a cool scene with a towpath on the left, and centre-frame, a brick bridge spanning a canal on which drifts a canal boat. All is quiet.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with 'Over the Bridge' by Simon Palmer. The keen eyed amongst you may recognise this landscape from another Palmer painting - but which one? www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo... #simonpalmer
‘Over the Bridge’ Simon Palmer, watercolour, gouache and ink. This painting depicts a figure on a bridge in the mid-ground, with his customarily tentacular trees to the right, with a road sloping away from us in the foreground., and ploughed fields climbing to the horizon.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a moth-stuffed meadow pipit - I'm starting with ‘Junction at High Newstead and Hammer Farm’ This one's the August selection for the Simon Palmer calendar for 2027, don'tcha know. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #simonpalmer #simonpalmerart #samuelpalmer
A landscape by the artist Simon Palmer, showing rolling hills, wavy trees, ploughed fields and a small flock of sheep by a quiet road leading to a junction.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Introducing the 'Genius Loci' Postcard Collection, by the remarkable Thomas S. Brown (@tomsbrown.bsky.social). This collection comprises Tattercat, Lady Moon, Green Man, Corn Jenny, Queen of Owls, and Pegana. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #Hookland #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography
A set of six postcards by the artist Thomas S. Brown, featuring various Genius Loci and small gods.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a shrimp-stuffed cuttlefish - I'm starting with Samuel Bough's gloriously golden 'Entrance to Cadzow Park', oil on canvas, 1859. Available as a single greetings card, or as part of the Summer Collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/samu... #greetingscard
A sunken lane leading in to Cadzow Park. In the doorway of a rustic dwelling a man smokes a pipe, a dog relaxing at his feet. On the right a curious cow.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like an ostrich-egg stuffed honey badger - I'm starting the day with Carl Larsson's wonderfully lit 'Holiday Reading', in which mother and child are so busy reading, they've forgotten all about the tea. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/carl... #carlarsson
Carl Larsson's wonderfully lit 'Holiday Reading', in which mother and child are sitting in a wonderfully lit garden, absorbed in their choice of books.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a berry-stuffed mistle thrush - I'm starting with with the arresting 'May' by Eric Ravilious. If you'd like a set, they're available from our website as a postcard collection. Currently 25% off too! www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #ericravilious
A wood engraving depicting the Wilmington Giant above a star-filled dew pond - on the right, a bull enters the picture from the air. A full moon is apparent.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a clam-stuffed puffer-fish - I'm starting with William Turner's 'Stonehenge, a Showery Day'. It's William Turner of Oxford by the way, not the other one, or indeed William Turner of Oxford's uncle, William Turner. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/will...
William Turner of Oxford's painting of Stonehenge on a showery day. Stonehenge is in the midground, attenuated, strange, mirrored by a rainfall on the left. The inevitable shepherd tends his flock in the foreground.
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a naseberry-stuffed palm civet - I'm starting with Carl Larsson's 'Woman Lying on a Bench', featuring fabulous fabrics, and unconscious pets. But how long until the dog sees the cat? www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/carl... #carllarsson #greetingscardsuk
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good afternoon - I hope your day is proceeding pleasantly - my afternoon choice is Gustav Klimt's 'Kirche in Cassone'. He wasn't just all about the boobs and gold you know. Although I must admit they did attract a large proportion of his attention. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/gust... #klimt
Gustav Klimt's 'Kirche in Cassone', a view of Cassone hovering above Lake Garda in Italy. Lots of greenery, poplars, terra cotta rooftiles and water.
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