Helen Tipper

Defendent was in the dock for just 80 seconds! Sketch on BBC national news & Midlands Today

Definitely never AI. But I do love sharp pencils and tiny brushes ❤️

Oh good. This video popped up on my timeline again. Today is a good day.

The most beautiful moth this morning

Carol Long, contemporary US ceramicist who draws influences from plant and animal life and also Art Nouveau #WomensArt #CeramicsArtWeek

The art and origins of the courtroom sketch from ABC Australia. Includes interviews with Anita Lester and Rocco Fazzari. abc.net.au/news/2026-02-2…

Which medieval lion are you today?

Thursday

Unclaimed things: orphaned umbrellas, lonely gloves, half-finished thoughts left trembling in public places. Objects with stories nobody came back for—still waiting, still accusing. Lost & Found is just a museum of small abandonments. #UnclaimedThings #RalphSteadman #Collage

Spiders & webbs are often added to crazy quilts as symbols of good luck and industry. Crazy quilts, popular in the 19thc, are a patchwork of irregular fabric scraps, thus differing from quilts with neat geometric patterns #Womensart #QuiltArtWeek

A new year — a timeless miracle. Peacock butterflies, newly emerged from their Nettles Nursery, resting briefly before taking to the wider world. Metamorphosis reminds us that change happens in its own time — patient, tender, unseen. Here’s to small miracles and wild wonder.

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, #WomensArt

The Dream of the Magi, Saint-Lazare Cathedral, Salle Capitulaire (Chapter Hall), Autun, France. Date: 1120–1130 AD.

Worked on me.

Cats by Endre Penovác

An 8th century stone fragment which formed part of a saint’s shrine. The fragment was found at Jedburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #SundayStonework #JedburghAbbey

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in recycled silver: snowdrop,bluebell, lily of the valley, wild carrot, forget me not seedheads,tiny heather wreaths. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make tiny wearable versions: wren, blackbird, swift. 20% off my jewellery just now with code TINYOWL20. Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: etsy.com/uk/shop/silver…

From "The Snow Leopard", 2007 written and illustrated by © Jackie Morris

A number of manuscripts in the renowned Cotton collection were damaged or destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House, London, #OTD in 1731. Asser’s biography of King Alfred of Wessex was lost. The Lindisfarne Gospels was among those to survive.

Just keep pinching myself and feeling a bit sick! Can’t believe I’m part of this. therp.co.uk/the-rp-inaugur…

Some stunning lace in this portrait