Kim Winter

Toilet roll holders filled with soil with parasol-shaped mushrooms growing inside and outside the tubes.

Toilet roll tubes filled with soil with tiny mushrooms growing on outside of tube.

Last week I sowed some broad beans in toilet roll tubes to get them started before planting out. The seeds have sprouted, but so have some tiny parasol-shaped mushrooms, both inside and outside the tubes. Any idea what species? #fungifriday #mushrooms

It is - a tomato nest 😁

Small basket woven from tomato stalks

11 tomato stalks against a marble backdrop

If you ever wondered whether it's possible to weave a basket from tomato stalks, the answer is yes.

If you've never wondered, never mind. Move on - nothing to see here. 😊

@nigelslater.bsky.social In your Christmas fruit cake recipe I can't see when to add the fruit and hazelnuts to the batter. Is it before or after the flour? Thanks.

Lice in Wonderland

Young fox lying on top of a green bag filled with soil in a London garden

Young fox waking from a nap on top of a green bag filled with soil in a London garden

Urban fox decided that our bag filled with soil was the ideal place for a nap.
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Row of yellow penguin sculptures on a platform by a river with Charles Bridge and buildings of Prague in the background.

#urbangaze

Grey squirrel lying on a wall beside the Thames in London with modern blocks on the other side of the river

#urbangaze

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

I’m sitting next to a 4 foot tall Hyphae lamp outside in the night with tree like shadows cast all around

For years, we've been making Hyphae lamps that fit in your hand. Now we're working on something a bit bigger #sciart

A coral-like ceramic sculpture in the shape of a comet with a short tail. It is made of porcelain and is currently unfired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, the tail is mostly made of fans, with the body of the comet covered in large rosette-like craters. The piece has the look of a messy goldfish, somehow!

POLONIA-Coral Comet, work in progress.

#SciArt #MarineLife #comet
#ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

Pope Duck Confit III. Ooh, get me 🙄

A display of a well preserved bast object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz. One of its many stunning objects is this Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast with a willow handle. Lime bast fibre is a flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for ...🧵1/2

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a reddish nudibranch sea slug with yellowing spots and branching spikey cerata covering its back

a translucent nudibranch sea slug with ice blue and orange racing stripes, the cerata covering the back are lined with brown and white and tipped with orange

a translucent nudibranch sea slug with ice blue and orange racing stripes, the cerata covering the back are lined with brown and white and tipped with orange

a translucent nudibranch with more sparse cerata which are pinkish and tipped in white

As promised, here are some nudibranchs I saw yesterday on the docks. The first one is Dendronotus venustus, the second and third are Hermissenda crassicornis and the last one, which I had to hang half off the dock to reach, is Coryphella verrucosa.

#InverteFest

a young girl drawing at a table in one of RAMM's meeting rooms

#Opencall for artists!

We're looking to commission a Devon/Cornwall-based artist to run a series of 7 workshops with a selection of community groups, working with diverse communities to create textile artworks exploring stories of place.

Find out more + apply >>> rammuseum.org.uk/jobs/#artist...

Leading 20th century textile artist Itchiku Kubota reinvented ancient dye techniques for use on modern kimono, creating panoramas of colour and light ~ here are some of his beautiful works thekubotacollection.com

I've been away for a few days, so here are some embroidered stones from 2023.

Fabulous! 😍

Thank you 🙏 And your beaded pieces are gorgeous 😍

Multiple species of colourful natural creatures

19/20C biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel, coiner of the term “ecology”, created these vivid depictions of sea anemones, jellyfish and hummingbirds (1904, from his book ‘Art Forms in Nature’)

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

Yu Chengyou is one of China’s most prominent contemporary printmakers. Chengyou's favorite subjects often reflect traditional elements of Chinese art, including fans, tea bowls, and musical instruments. He is particularly skilled in calligraphy, a recurring feature in the background of his prints.

Hi Kelly - welcome to Bluesky! Great to see you here! 😘

glass feather
Flameworked; bolosilicate glass

#glassart #ガラス #glass

Screenshot of the beneficiary page for Women & Children First bookstore on Bookshop dot org. Tagline says, your local feminist bookstore since 1979! Along the top it says, $35,498,084.53 raised for local bookstores.

One of my new resolutions is to avoid buying print books from Amazon—so I finally set up an account on Bookshop.org, which benefits indie bookstores. I should have done this sooner. They had the book I wanted in stock and I was able to choose Women and Children First as beneficiary of the sale. Win!

A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible.

Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

Tiny thrown and carved cup in dark brown clay, much narrower at the bottom than the top, carved with leaves somewhat resembling ferns, but improvised, that appear to wrap around the cup. Glazed in a deep blue glaze that was wiped off the raised areas of the carving before firing, revealing the brown clay.

Another improvised leaf wrap-around on a tiny cup. Could possibly be used as an egg cup, or shot glass…. really a glaze test, but a lovely one, if I do say so myself.

#ArtAdventCalendar

Two bug like amphipods rest on either side of a cylindrical shaped radiolarian colony. The colony appears to be a series of 8 polka dot yellow spheres smushed into a line surrounded by a halo of blue dots representing a mucus layer.

A duo of amphipods have made this radiolarian their home. Radiolarians are part of the marine #plankton. Individual radiolarians are normally hundredths to tenths of millimeters in size, but some species amass into colonies like this one which may reach size of a whole centimeter! #marinelife 🦑

paresthesia (face) 2016 An embroidery of the outline of a face in bone coloured thread on bone coloured linen. The forehead, cheeks, jaws, and temples are covered in filigree lines in dark blues, greens, and yellows. There are French knots spaced out along the lips. Lines of beige strands of thread are strung from the knots across the face in a geometric formation.

Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery, paresthesia (face) (2016), looks abstract at first glance, but is a visualization of the tingling I felt on my face at the time. #MedSky 🐡🧪🧶

A cluster of lichens. Each looks like a little grey satellite dish ringed with tiny bright red balls.

Cladonia #lichens. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungifriends