Clarrie-Anne

Creative Designer & Artist | I have a grey cat and no volume control.
My art is available from

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

I can't emphasise enough how important creativity can be for mental wellbeing 🖌
You can read my blog about how painting has helped me through the pandemic below 💙
@MindCharity
#MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #arttherapy

[Mind @MindCharity]

“On a day I was suffering particularly badly with my mental health, I picked up a brush and have been painting ever since.”

Clarrie-Anne blogs about how art has helped eased her lockdown anxiety – and raised money for Mind at the same time > https://t.co/ivhYe7PDgT

[David Firth (Salad Fingers) @DAVID_FIRTH]

The software I make Salad Fingers with..

[Matt Phillips @bigevilboss]

Thank you all for the patience. It's a been a wild ride getting this one finished!

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

Bless her 🖤

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Matt Phillips @bigevilboss]

Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch is just entering QA :)

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

@emiplayz 🥰

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

'Make sure you always have fun!'
The best advice from my late Nanny Lil 💙
#art #ArtistOnTwitter #artshare

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

@AnthonyPutson So sorry to hear this. I hope you find your muse 🖤
All the best, I mean that x

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

My boy 🖤

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

A tribute to Joni Mitchell 🩵
- by me

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

Two legends - Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock jam with the Fairlight CMI in the documentary 'I Love Quincy' in 1984.

Quincy Jones, the iconic music producer who won 28 Grammy Awards over the course of his career, has passed away aged 91.

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

'Pondering'
#ArtisticExpression by me.

[Bottom Official @official_bottom]

“Trick or ruddy treat…”

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

Handsome lad.

[Kate Bush @KateBushMusic]

https://t.co/m2024szG3A @WarChildUK @BBCRadio4

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

Good evening.

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

It's finally here and it's beautiful.
After 16 years.
Of course I cried
🖤

[The Cure @thecure]

ALONE
OUT SEPT 26 | 12PM BST | 7AM EST | 9PM AEST
EXCLUSIVE FIRST PLAY WITH #MARYANNEHOBBS @BBC6Music

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

Hello.
My name is Bao.
Today, I got registered and chipped at the vets as 'Pork Bao Bun With Szechuan Sauce'.
Thank you.

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

@CharlyPudding As a designer, the product placement and god awful editing skills are actually bothering me more. If you're going to create something imaginary at least do a good fucking job.

[Clarrie-Anne @clarrieanne]

@bigevilboss @danhett