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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With words by Rumi And a big day for me today as my new website has gone live. All coded by my newly graduated son who headed off to the big smoke yesterday to start his new job. Slightly sad mum who will be enjoying extra donkey love to compensate. www.samcannonart.com

A sleepy fox in a tree.
With words by Rumi - The inspiration you seek is already within you.
Be silent and listen.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Changing between Sped up and actual speed. I do all my lettering with a paint brush ❤️

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A close up of a bigger picture. But how I'd love all foxes to be. Safe, secure, rested.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Her heart was made of liquid sunsets. Virginia Woolf Have a wonderful autumn equinox. Treasure the light. Look forward to more time with the stars.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My work this week. I have worked soooo hard ❤️

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some badger love today. Words by: 'We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness.' George Orwell 'Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.' Einstein 'A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.' Douglas Pagels And

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week - painting 8x12” slates. Very different technique and a fun change.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What I’ve been up to this week. My neck and shoulders are shot! Tiny brushes, hours and hours of work. Hope you like them! Available as soon as my new samcannonart place goes live!

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You're going to need to click on the last one to see it all, but the others are all cropped versions of bigger paintings. And the theme today - silver birch trees. So beautiful and I come back to them time and again ❤️

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A bit of badger love today. Because they are beautiful. They are precious. They need all the help they can get from us whilst they continue to be persecuted. Our own, very beautiful, stripey bears.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Your challenge today. Can you watch it through to the end…..

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pebbles from many moons ago….. Homer & Mark Twain

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't like autumn as much as like Spring. But the colours - the colours I love. I could have posted 30 pictures with the autumnal colours.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Picture one I painted a few weeks ago. At the weekend I got to add a coule of extra details. Picture two I painted a couple of years ago. And last week added some glistening holly all around the edge. I hope you like them.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A new painting with pictish symbols. And the second slide shows the last time I did paintings with them back in 2022 with the foxes.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A bit of hare love today. I love these crazy, sometimes beautiful, sometimes scary creatures. With their very unique style of parenting!!

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just put my brush down. With words from The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Not what I was expecting to paint this week. I found the sketch of the tree from over a year ago when tidying up.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Brand new work. With words by John Muir And when it feels like autumn outside, it comes out in my work. I really hope you like it. The original, painted in watercolours, shines all over from the Schmincke Aqua Bronze paint that I used for leaves and ferns. #womensart

A view from the woods. With a sleeping fox curled up in the base of a tree. And in the distance, a single tree with a stag beneath, a large setting sun behind it.
And words by John Muir = Going to the woods is going home.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Two new paintings. One an updated version of an old painting. The other, my not entirely successful attempt at capturing ethereal looking hares. First go though so more to practice :-)

2 hares, a sun and words by Isadora Duncan

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Beautiful cosmos - hanging on in there in the garden. New prints. New calendars all ready to go. And updated paintings with damselflies. Have a lovely weekend.

Lots of cosmos - currently doing its best in my garden.

3 updated paintings. Of this set of 4, I've one left to do.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In case you’d like to know what I use for my gold paint. It’s amazing ❤️

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A close up and the full thing. A new idea for a Christmas Card. This is painted in watercolours but also 'no bleed white' gouache for the snowy bits. If you saw the work in progress pic at the weekend, you'll see I had some stuff to sort out. But I love it now. Especially the hog.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's only a work in progress picture for a new Christmas Card idea. I'm hoping to do 2 new ones this year. That's about all I can hope with! Lots still to do. But that's what happens when you make it up as you go along. #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Experimenting again. I cut the Lino last year then lost confidence. I hope to cut some more very soon so I can experiment some more ❤️

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

All new bits and pieces from the last couple of weeks. And a go at blind embossing. Much learning to do!

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness. George Orwell. I'm a bit sad that I've not seen any evidence of dragonflies having emerged from our pond. I wonder if it was just too hot last year.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Words by Emily Dickinson. I'll tell you how the sun rose. A ribbon at a time. With a sleepy Appaloosa. The horse of my dreams.

A horse sleeping with foxes. With silver birch trees in the background, a huge golden sun rising. And words by Emily Dickinson.
I'll tell you how the sun rose. A ribbon at a time.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Newly finished. I really hope you like it. I love badgers and wish that we all appreciated them more. Painted in watercolours. #womensart

A badger, paws on the edge of its sett, looking out. Surrounded by grasses, stitchwort and her robert.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Virginia Woolf 'She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.' From a few years ago now. And in honour of tomorrow's 2nd full moon of the month, the glorious Blue Moon. #womensart

Virginia Woolf — 'She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.'
Two hares by a fallen stone. The silver moon. A barn owl taking off.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sunday morning in Dorset and a new painting. ‘You were wild once here. Don’t let them tame you.’ Isadora Duncan.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Just finished. A nod to our beautiful butterflies and wonderful summer visitors. It’s taken me ages…. #watercolours #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. - Elizabeth David And a brand new painting that I've worked hours and hours on this week just ready for a new card. I live close to the Jurassic Coast and finding fossils here as been so wonderful. #samcannonart www.samcannonart.co.uk

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” Guillaume Apollinaire A new twist on an old painting. For a new project - trying to keep my little business going in these difficult times.

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” Guillaume Apollinaire

Swallows flying up high in the sky. With Colmers Hill and the sea in the background.

Colmers Hill lies just outside of Bridport and looks out to the Jurassic Coast. Dorset is beautiful.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Simone de Beauvoir Watercolours and then Schmincke Aqua bronze for the hand rendered lettering at the top.

A fox lying in the grass with snakeshead fritillaries growing around.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

**** needsaclick **** to see it all. 'Friendship is a sheltering tree' from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Youth and Age. And the gorgeous of face of a Herwick Sheep with her hen companion on her back. www.samcannonart.co.uk

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.' Hafez Inspired by Flaco. A watercolour of an eagle owl. #womensart

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.' Hafez

A watercolour painting of an eagle owl.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You have seen my descent now watch my rising. Rumi Simple things for complicated times. Painted in watercolours on watercolour paper. I don't use AI in any of my work. #womensart

You have seen my descent now watch my rising. Rumi
A watercolour of two bluetits, fennel and butterflies.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

All with paintings with the words from Philip Larkin's 'An Arundel Tomb' - What will survive of us is love. #womensart And I'm sending out today all the love I can to counteract all the other things that are happening right now.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hafez - I will always lean my heart as close to your soul as I can. And this is for every mum. The ones still with us. The new mum's. In memory of the ones no longer here. The ones who step in and provide the love of a mother in whatever form it has taken. #motherslove #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Some paintings are harder than others. One of these was, one of these wasn't. "For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” William Butler Yeats Both watercolours. #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just in case you need to hear it today..... “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.' Hafez ***needsaclick*** to see it all.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm going to make time today to put together a new 'flowers' greetings card pack. These three will all be in there. All containing my favourite flowers. Watch this space. #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hello Spring I couldn't resist including you in a painting any longer. This is all done in watercolours. The lettering is drawn by me in pencil and then I paint over it with watercolours and white gouache. I don't use computers for this, just 4 years of training at uni. #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

As the world seems so very scary right now, I'm fully focussed on Spring blossoms and bird song. The Robins are serenading me wherever I go. And now the Wrens are joining in too. Watercolours from 2024. #womensart

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With words by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This painting of our peacock and peahen has been tormenting me all week. I have really stressed over the colours of their feathers. Not all paintings come easy and this is one of the hardest I've ever painted.

Two peacocks with lettering from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee. Let me count the ways.

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Virginia Woolf - Her heart was made of liquid sunsets. Watercolours on watercolour paper. #foxoftheday #womensart

A fox painting with hand lettered words - her heart was made of liquid sunsets - by Virginia Woolf

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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My finished painting with the words by Louisa May Alcott. Sleeping horse. Flying short eared owl. Running hares and a halo around the moon. I really hope you like the finished piece.

Horse sleeping amongst the beech trees and bluebells.
With a short eared owl flying and hares running.

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