Doreen Fletcher

‘Walk on By’ 2026. A cold, damp winter’s night in Woodgrange Road, East London will be on display during my next show at Townhouse in Spitalfields from Saturday June 13 ⁦@thegentleauthor⁩ ⁦@ahistoryinart⁩ @PaintingsLondon

@Wiseworlduk @thegentleauthor @PaintingsLondon Pet shop next door is no more 😢

@DFletcherArtist @thegentleauthor @ahistoryinart @PaintingsLondon Stunning, Doreen. Every little detail tells its own story.

‘Walk on By’ 2026. A cold, damp winter’s night in Woodgrange Road, East London will be on display during my next show at Townhouse in Spitalfields from Saturday June 13 ⁦@thegentleauthor⁩ ⁦@ahistoryinart⁩ @PaintingsLondon

Figures in the city Southwark, London, 2018 Silver gelatin print #London #Southwark #streetphotography #men #woman #figures #city #lunchtime #officeworkers #sidewalk #pavement #urban #urbanlandscape #SE1 #sunlight #shadows #innercity #street #road #town #blackandwhite #film #bnw

From unpromising, semi-amateur beginnings, Paul Cézanne retreated to Provence on a struggle to create a new way of picturing the world. 'What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious; it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.'

Dots prize bingo by Stuart Walton. #stuartwalton #northernart

To celebrate the arrival of spring, this weekend all our books are on sale at HALF PRICE until Sunday at midnight. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com Simply add the code SPRINGSALE at checkout to get 50% discount.

Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history in Spitalfields at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

Now open @staedelmuseum in Frankfurt: Claude Monet on the Normandy Coast. It's a terrific show, which we saw at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon late last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-wh…. Pictured: Monet's Etretat, mer agitée, 1883, MBA Lyon.

Your last chance to catch the intriguing Stanley Spencer in Suffolk exhibition @GH_Sudbury, closing Mar 29 before heading to @SpencerCookham. This is View from Cookham Bridge (1936, Stanley Spencer Gallery). Read about the show here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-si…

Meet me on Easter Monday on the steps of St Paul's for a tour of sightseeing and storytelling, rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

None of Morandi's pictures are simple once you start to think how they were made. Once you get beyond admiration of his skill you start to wonder about him working in his bedroom and living with his sisters in a flat in Bologna, and how he produced purity of form like this.

Hammersmith Grove, by Hammersmith artist Ruskin Spear

Return your unwanted Reform UK flyers to this address and it costs them £2.50 a pop. Pop this address on an envelope with the flyer in, and pop it in a post box! The more we return, the less they will send!

'Still Life with Mustard Pot.' By the the early 1860s, Henri Fantin Latour was producing three genres of painting that would sustain him throughout his entire career: portraiture and imaginative or mythological scenes and still life painting with which he had the most success.

‘Electricity Substation, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton’. Oil on board, 30 x 30 cm. Work in progress! I’m now working regularly back in London, esp. in Waltham Forest. You might catch me outside Leytonstone tube station. It feels good to be satisfying my East London obsession again.

Pls read & share this Ruby’s Law has officially become the Domestic Abuse (Pets) Bill following its first reading in Parliament. A huge thank you to @RuthJonesLabour  for a powerful speech advocating vital amendments to the Family Law Act 1996 & the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Pets are too often used as tools of coercive control in abusive households. Protecting them means protecting survivors too. Next stop: Second Reading in May. #RubysLaw #DomesticAbusePetsBill #EndDomesticAbuse #ProtectOurPets #FamilyLaw #AnimalWelfare #SupportSurvivors 📷

My old cat Schrodinger loved the spring sunshine

TWICE A BROKEN BREATH 🌆 She stole his world. He's got 24 hours to get it back. ⏱ "Traveling from New Jersey to the rain-soaked streets of New York City, Liam searches for his family and for unanswered questions that have lain dormant for years." mybook.to/TwiceBroken 📕

This is "Essex Landscape" by W S Mummery from 1930. It is the only known example of his work to have survived. Born in 1873, William Mummery was one of the oldest members of the Group as he was 56 when they started in 1929. #WSMummery #EastLondonGroup #Essex

‘Vacant’ #Abandoned #Derelict #UrbanDecay #UKPhotography #DocumentingBritain #GrimArt