anny brackx

walker, fisher, arty/ farty music and nature lover with some science and politics thrown into the mix

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

The sycamore tree on Hadrian’s Wall is as close as our culture got to a sacred tree - venerated, visited, endlessly represented - anachronistic in age weaving Robin Hood and St Oswald and the frontier forts and tribes of the Roman wall - and now felled like the druids’ groves

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

I love the Carrion Crow, one of the most intelligent birds in the world! 😍 Are there any other Crow fans out there? 😊🐦

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

Imaginatively rooted in #SriLanka’s multicultural heritage, @ShehanKaru’s ‘The seven moons of Maali Almeida’, is beautifully written and structured, while giving us a shockingly graphic account of the civil war. It is unique and highly recommended.

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

A #heron in #ClissoldPark

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

So sad #sineadconnor died. What a fighter, what a mensch.

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

🚨We can’t sit back while plans to respond to the climate emergency are scrapped.

❗️Join me and tell Rishi Sunak: don't ditch the climate pledge 👉 https://t.co/p8M9eDAJVz

#KeepThePledge

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

‘#Photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from anecdote, and even from the subject. So shouldn’t painters profit from their newly acquired liberty to do other things?’ - #PabloPicasso

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

Yes, it’s #Bacon’s portrait of #LucienFreud ⁦@tatemodern⁩’s #CapturingTheMoment, an exhibition that makes you think about the difference between #photography, and #painting and how either tries to make sense of reality. As #Picasso new, photography liberated painters.

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#Drawing and #painting progress 146: a #watercolour impression of #LochFionn

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#PaInting and #drawing progress 145: ‘sunrise’ over #Drumbeg, #Scotland

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#painting and #drawing progress 144: ‘sunrise’ after #Turner

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#Painting and #drawing progress 143: #watercolour done near #Achmelvich in #Scotland

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

I am sure your local cinema won’t show #DarrenAronofsky’s 2022 #film ‘#TheWhale’ - after all who’d want to sit through (for over an hour) the story of a very obese man. And yet you will have missed a wonderful film, with sensitive acting and amazing dialogue (see it on #Prime).

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#AiWeiWei’s ‘#MakingSense’ exhibition ⁦@DesignMuseum⁩ is a poignant example of how art can be a political statement: see below his juxtaposition of mass produced Lego and the disappearing craftsmanship of #woodcarving in China

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

In this mix of #guerrillagardening, billionaire #survivalism, #raremetals extraction, #conservation, all set in #NewZealand, you’re never clear whether this novel wants to be a political tract that could have been set in the Seventies or a modern fast-moving thriller.

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#mariekeLucasRijneveld won the #InternationalBookerPrize in 2020 with ‘The discomfort of evening’. It’s the observations of a 12-year-old girl who lives on a farm, and is trying to make sense of the world and the sadness surrounding her. Stunning writing.

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#Drawing and #Painting progress 142: a #watercolour of the roofs in #Ragusa, #Sicily - trying to be minimalist!

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

Chartbook 208: "as a historian ..." - the courage of Vladimir Kara-Murza , by @adam_tooze https://t.co/wr758Othkd

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

Ferocious nature, how people cope with it, and the darkness it brings out in them, is the main subject of #Icelandic director #HlymurPalmason’s ‘#Godland’. Also shows many lovely #horses and the sweetest #dog

[anny brackx @annybrackx]

#Drawing and #painting progress 141: more playing around with #light and #shade