Becca Thorne

My latest painting: Barmouth Harbour, oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm #oilpainting #Barmouth #Wales #irishart

Second tripler of the weekend. Oh stiley³ fans, someone must have a third example?

My latest painting (reworking one from several weeks ago): oil on canvas, 80 x 80cm #landscapepainting #mountains #irishart

Lil spooky guys still available for forever haunts Wee BOO-ty Ghosts …JUST HERE FOR THE CRAIC Large - £13 Medium - £10 Small - £7 Any 3 for £25 + £4.15p&p Who you gonna call? GHOST-BUTT-STER DM/comment HAUNT ME to adopt First come, first spooked #bsnm #ukgiftam #mhhsbd #spooky #lilguys

ravel.me/another-day-... knitted in various Aran yarns 🧶 #knit

My latest painting (reworking one from several weeks ago): oil on canvas, 80 x 80cm #landscapepainting #mountains #irishart

🆘PICASSO TO B KILLED “Picasso def knows how 2 express his happiness: adorable tippy taps & nonstop wiggles!…his tail NEVER stopped wagging…so sweet, happy &playful, esp when chasing 🎾! Even during exciting playtime, he never jumped up on me…well-mannered.” “Very sweet affectionate guy.” 🙏Repost

⚡️Zelenskyy: "I'm against any lifting of sanctions. I've always said this to European partners, and I've said it directly to the American administration. I know that if you give something to Putin, he will want everything."

VOTE BLUE 2026 VOTE BLUE "FREE BALLS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAVE LOST THEIRS" 👑 NO KINGS IN AMERICA 👑 🗳️ THIS MUST STOP 🌊 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY

🎉PS Member News: Michele Ashby PS SWA SGFA Michele's work ‘Quietly becoming’ has won the Hosking Houses Trust Artists Residency #Award at The #WomenInArt Prize Exhibition! womeninartprizecic.com #pastelsociety #pastel #pastelart #draw #womeninartprize #womenartists #contemporarypastel

THIS 👇 TOO.......

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

The Old Barn at Llwyn Onn, oil on canvas, 40 x 120cm #landscapepainting #Wales #memories

I'd welcome that. And several more Supreme Court justices, please. It's been forever since they've expanded the number, and we need some balance.

The Old Barn at Llwyn Onn, oil on canvas, 40 x 120cm #landscapepainting #Wales #memories

While there is increasingly strong evidence that global warming is accelerating, we need to be careful about how we detect it. Unfortunately a newly published paper on the topic makes a number of mistakes in it approach, as I discuss over at The Climate Brink:

And unfortunately, what happens in America doesn't stay in America. This will have global impacts

Sunrise just beginning to touch the tops of the Sliabh Liag cliffs. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in 1 day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median US worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams & various grifts. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

Save this!

Massive #explodey Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg overnight. Targets: * Petersburg Oil Terminal, the main fuel export hub on the Baltic, now on fire * Ruchyi fuel depot, gasoline and diesel storage facility, ablaze

In response to @peterthorne.bsky.social - a bit of video from our morning walk!

A stile for @lakesstiles.bsky.social and a shallow inversion for my met followers from a walk this morning with @beccathorne.bsky.social who took many more higher quality photos but (inexcusably) none of the stile. Croghan hill county Offaly

Repeat after me: 1) PIP isn't an out of work benefit. It is a benefit paid to disabled people to pay for the extra costs of living with a disability. 2) Some PIP claimants work. Some PIP claimants will never able to work at all. 3) Impoverishing people doesn't get them closer to employment

Delighted that this painting has found a home in the US. Enormous thanks for the support.

On this #SpiritDay, we’re proud to show our support for LGBTQ+ youth and take a stand against bullying. Learn more and take action: glaad.org/spiritday

Reworking a #painting of #HiggerTor Bolder and stronger. #WIP

ORSON WELLES’ 3rd completed feature film as director centres on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It was the first Hollywood film to incorporate actual documentary footage of the Holocaust. THE STRANGER (1946) #EdwardGRobinson

BYD’s new seven-seater gets the fastest charging on the market 10–97 percent in nine minutes! The Atto 8 (Tang L in China) is essentially an extended version of the current #BYD Tang. However, new battery technology delivers massive charging power. $TSLAQ

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A mother is overcome with emotions watching her autistic son, who cannot be touched, lay on his new Service Dog of his own free will, with a purposeful, unspoken bond. "Share the post if you love animals."

Another old favourite bookshop of mine was Ken Spelman's, 70-72 Micklegate, York. Just around the corner from the office & with a coal fire during the winter my colleagues & I were always there. Recently been renovated & reopened by Lucius Books. #ArchitecturalIllustration #drawing #ArtShare

I've heard it's #BookshopDay so here are some of my favourite bookshops. Minster Gate Bookshop in York is still one of my favourite shops. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Just looked up what the current leader of the UK Conservative Party would do about climate change. Oh. "Kemi Badenoch announced that the Conservative Party would repeal the Climate Change Act of 2008 if they win a majority at the next General Election, due August 2029." www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Reposting without Bluesky corners!

CNN spent a month in Hettinger, North Dakota, to examine the impact of immigrant workers and how they were viewed in a rural part of the country that mostly voted for President Donald Trump. https://cnn.it/4rIIG4d

This piece is now available: €250 + shipping

Currently exhibited as part of the An Chead Tine 3rd Annual Exhibition in Kilkenny - available (€650).

These are still available!

Whilst I’m without a website, I’m continuing to offer paintings at reduced prices. This landscape in oils is large: 100 x 100cm on canvas. €500 + shipping (worldwide). Message me for more details.

Now €150 + shipping.

This one is still available. Happy to negotiate on price.

New work: The Folded Earth, oil and peat (collected on a walk) on linen, 60 x 80cm

🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not bad - I like it! 😂