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Bank Holiday Monday - a gift of a day in many ways, with many of you heading off for a walk in a special place , a day ‘out’ perhaps, to relieve the lockdown . Not for me, so I am gazing instead at Bridget Tempest’s… instagram.com/p/CAmrX53F6qq/…

He has a new rope game to play from his tree house deck. Always something new in this one’s Caturday life. #lovemycat #catsofinstagram #pussycat #tabbycat #playful #stimulated #happy #entertained #game #agile #tree… instagram.com/p/CAlBBLUFXw8/…

Sun-loving Icebergs leading to the front door. May’s magic. Happy Sunday everybody! * #londonlife #roses #naturalbeauty #may #sunshine #therapy #plants #gratitude #peace #goodmood #london instagram.com/p/CAj8BQqFVvs/…

Simon Lewty’s penned drawing, ‘Event’ (36x36cm) should be on our stand at DRAW, that elegant French Art Fair dedicated to drawings and due to stage its second edition @saatchi_gallery with its first day today. ART… instagram.com/p/CAcUYFEl8Ol/…

Standing up for The Chelsea Flower Show @the_rhs - alexlowery offers ‘Poppy’ , 2020, oil on cardboard, 21x15cm, @ £200 plus postage on the #artistsupportpledge scheme initiated by #matthewburrowsstudio . Visit… instagram.com/p/CAaHUDjldD6/…

Before you go to sleep after another still warm day, think of all those kites in a lockdown of their own. @granatiere allows them to escape in this bold collage bearing that title.... 10x 15cm, it is on offer for… instagram.com/p/CATTs21FTTN/…

Dealing with news. #cats #energy #financialtimes #game #release #fury #furry #flurry #catsofinstagram #london instagram.com/p/CAS1ia-FYFd/…

On #sarurdaycaturday he declared a computer lockdown and got us to play games with him in the garden. Feline will. Insistence. Triumph. #cats #lovemycat #catsofinstagram #felineelegance #determination… instagram.com/p/CASH6iHFMic/…

Graeme Williams comes upon homes with attitude in his long standing exploration of townships around ‘post apartheid’ South Africa. Amidst poverty and hardship he detects signs of dignity , humour and hope in his… instagram.com/p/CAMxBLkFYoO/…

When your French Goddaughter knows how to please her Mother’s collectors! See katemccrickard for her drawings of Sarah, her siblings, cousins and friends. A magical world of creativity and inspiration. * #drawing… instagram.com/p/CAKEzsMlSw5/…

Ben Dorain - an installation view of Helen MacAlister’s memorable 2013 exhibition ‘At the Foot o’ Yon Excellin’ Brae’ (Stornoway and @ Art First London. The coloured glass piece in the previous post was part of the… instagram.com/p/CAHpciLlg9u/…

Despite the sunshine, we have had ‘Cold air in the nostrils’ just as Helen MacAlister describes it on post card size sand blasted wavy glass. It is an eloquent, poetic metaphor, indivisibly word and image where the… instagram.com/p/CAF8zOzl11t/…

On the subject of swimming, here are 4 delightful gouache post card paintings of bathing beauties by Margaret Hunter, each £200 plus postage on the #artistsupportpledge scheme conceived by #matthewburrowsstudio to… instagram.com/p/B_67C_ilqlN/…

Leon Kossoff, ‘Children’s Swimming Pool’ 1971 @tateshots . For katemccrickard ( before you were born! ). Timeless imagery, urban pleasures , impossible during #covid19 . May it end soon. #arthistory… instagram.com/p/B_66EPzFsZt/…

‘Swimmer’ 2020 by Kate McCrickard (see previous post) -offset drawing with monotype, oil paint in Japanese paper. 33x24cm. This powerful small image is being generously offered on the #artistsupportpledge scheme… instagram.com/p/B_641Hhlk1v/…

Swimmers, in the great heatwave of 2019 in Paris, by Kate McCrickard, oil on canvas 46 x56cm. An artistic tribute to Leon Kossoff’s 1971 ‘Children’s Swimmingpool’ @tateshots but even more so, an independent and… instagram.com/p/B_63wouFgb5/…

Third and final Friday Fish offering: @jackmroy who mostly eats sardines for lunch then puts their tins to good use . Here are his joyful sardines leaping in ecstasy as they escape their tin on 1 May , May Day ....… instagram.com/p/B_pF84ullU4/…

Another Scottish offering for Fish Friday: by a grand prize winning national fly fishing champion ( when he wasn’t Professor of Sculpture @eca_edinburgh ), jakeharvey.sculptor . ‘Two Fishes’ 1986, bronze, edition… instagram.com/p/B_pDss6FTS5/…

It’s Fish Friday. Will Maclean’s ‘Fish Games’ is a playful print in an edition of 6 (3 available) measuring 30 x 21 cm Yours for £200 + postage on the #artistsupportpledge scheme. Visit our website and explore the… instagram.com/p/B_pA0QllxaM/…