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Floral Heart The most detailed painting I’ve done. 19hrs sketching & 300+hrs painting. This is for everyone who adores flowers. Oh how ephemeral beautiful things are, like life💐 ~watercolor ~sold / prints available #watercolor #artwork #painting #artists #art #florals

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“And while Angband was besieged and its gates shut there were green things even among the pits and broken rocks before the doors of hell.” - The Silmarillion

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'Twilight Landscape' by Victoria Crowe, contemporary Scottish painter #WomensArt

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“I feel a harmony in the glen; I walk into the mountain.” #photography #photographer #photo #photographylovers #naturephotography #landscape #travelphotography #scotland #scotlandgreatshots #scotlandphotography #mountain #wild #wilderness #wildernessnation #wonderful #landscapephotography

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🥳NEW BLOG POST 🥳 I had a lot of fun writing this one! 'Eldest and Oldest: Middle-earth's Mother/Father Trees' explores how we can rethink the Old Forest, #Lothlórien, and #Fangorn Forest through the work of @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social in 'Finding the Mother Tree'. will-sherwood.com/2025/02/28/m...

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Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt

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Eglerio! The Proceedings of the #Tolkien 2019 Conference had been published papers by an incredible group of scholars honoured to be amongst them! Close to 1,000 pages of academic exploration from @lunapress.bsky.social www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/01/new-...

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Emma Haworth, contemporary London based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

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Happy publication day to Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines (Paperback) www.waterstones.com/book/modern-... #naturewriting #envhum

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On Wonder! Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025! Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book! #C18L #18thcentury @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Sarah Jane Brown, contemporary Welsh land and seascape painter #WomensArt

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I think she’s still on a bit of a social media break, but OMG this is GORGEOUS! Thank you so much @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social. What a fantastic birthday present! 🩷

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To celebrate a major #PhD milestone I took myself off to #Glencoe and Rannoch Moor. So glad I moved to #Scotland 🥰

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📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP 📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market 🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025 📍in-person in Mainz or online 💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky

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A new opinion poll indicates surging support for the reintroduction of #LynxToScotland with 61% of Scots keen to see #lynx return 🐆 The First Minister’s recent refusal to consider lynx reintroduction is completely out of step with public opinion. Full story 👉 buff.ly/3QmJ32z

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Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Indigenous artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt

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Anthill, c.1916 by Expressionist painter Marianne von Werefkin #womensart

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🌧️🌳 Scotland’s #rainforest is a rare and precious habitat, thriving in mild temperatures, clean air, and high rainfall. 🌿 Want to see a beautiful example of community-led action that is protecting rainforests for future generations? Watch this film 🎥 👉 youtu.be/K1hcIkFz5oU?...

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#CFP #18thC #skystorians 'Gilbert Whilte and his Contexts', 3-5 June 2025 at Selbourne (Hampshire) Proposals welcomed for 20min papers, panels of 3 speakers, or roundtables of 5 speakers. Please submit abstracts (300 words) by 4 April 2025 to [email protected] gilbertwhite.org.uk

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The Caspar David Friedrich show at the Met is great, but there's an irony to seeing such solitary, still, and meditative works in a room absolutely packed with people. Some artworks work fine with noise and chaos, but Friedrich not so much.

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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else" - Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart

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I 'think' chapter 1 of the #PhD is finally done. The original aim was to end year one with ch1 complete... that did not happen 😂 But the multitude of discoveries make the extra time worthwhile as I have a smorgasbord of ideas/drafts for the other chapters! #Tolkien #Romantic #Romanticism #PhDLife

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The thinner tree was cut down years ago, and the larger one has been supporting and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn. This natural phenomenon is known as inosculation.

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Good news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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The next edited book is hitting the virtual shelves later this month. Place your order now 😁

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Just preordered this beauty for myself, as a treat (read: hedge against despair): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... If somebody wanted to let me review it, I'd be delighted, just saying . . .

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Well, I have an approximate publication date of 1 February, 2026 for "Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany." Just finalized the illustrations list this week. Below: "Children of the Stones" (ITV, 1977)

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The CfP is open for ‘Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Humanities’ 🥳 Send @clarelmoore.bsky.social and I your proposals!

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Reading @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social's superb article 'Women's #Walking Tour and #Romantic #Wilderness' and ideas like this are making the neurons fly! Can't wait to rethink #Tolkien's #LordOfTheRings using her work. #Women #LotR #Hobbit #MiddleEarth #Romanticism

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Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now! For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-... And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Oooh. New book in the mail today: Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies!

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Creator of Nightmares has just been delivered to my door. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it for @blakequarterly.bsky.social

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It's here! Registration is now open for our Publishing Fantasy for Young Readers Symposium this April! Book your tickets to our FREE in-person event on Eventbrite: shorturl.at/5Awu8 Visit our website for the full schedule: shorturl.at/yjghx Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #ChildrensLit #Publishing

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Professor Alexander Schlutz is the new Editor of Essays in Romanticism, and Volume 32.1 will be published this year! Until then, you can browse the latest issue on the LUP website: bit.ly/EiR31-2 @bars.bsky.social @johnjayrec.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social @cunygcps2.bsky.social

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Recent oil experiments in many shades of green 💚

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I'm so excited to share the punk-rock-vibes cover for Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane. The book will be out 2 Sept '25. Thanks so much for your ongoing help getting this closer to the finish line for #JaneAusten's 250th, which promises to be a bright spot in 2025.

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If you see this, quote with your Night/Dark art! My Hour is Almost Come, a piece on British folklore death omens for the End is Nigh at Light Gray Art Lab in Minneapolis (I think 2021!)

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“Dian's bright crescent, like a silver bow New strung in heaven, lifts high its beamy horns” - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘A Summer Evening’s Meditation’ #Moon #Luna #Romantic #Romanticism #Myth #Mythology #Photography

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Today is #Imbolc - the Gaelic festival celebrating the first signs of #spring 🌱✨ New life begins to emerge, early shoots push through the earth, and the promise of brighter days is in the air. Take a moment to embrace the renewal, growth, and changing of the #seasons. 🤍

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Imbolc is here! The snowdrops are pushing up in my garden, just like on my Wheel illustration 🌿 #imbolc #stbrigidsday #wheeloftheyear

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CfP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies (organised by BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow 2025) Royal Holloway, in collaboration with BARS & BAVS, will host an in-person research day on Tues 3rd June considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5781

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Job posting: Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Humanities, Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Apply by February 24, 2025, 11:59 PM CST at emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #AcademicSky

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New Release! The Brontës and the Fairy Tale By Jessica Campbell "Jessica Campbell brilliantly reveals how the Brontës mined rich veins of lore, local and global, in ways that have gone undetected in previous scholarly works."—Maria Tatar Learn more: www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425640

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