#southwark park

[kentengland]

Cherry Bullet ~ Love In Space #mikfestival #london #cherrybullet #lovein...

[actaecon]

Southwark Park London

[eopederson]

Imperial War Museum, London, 2010.

[aisphotostuff]

Robin Fattening for Winter! by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Lovely robin storing up his food in Peckham rye park in the woodland area..didn't know about the seed till i edited picture always a delight to see.

[fallanangel666]

My wall of art update

[yamnbananas]

Little Dorrit Court , London SE1 August 18th 2023

[gretchen-geraets]

Gretchen Geraets // Mother lode (2023)

Southwark Park Galleries // Annual Open 2023 // 11 NOVEMBER–9 DECEMBER 2023  

Watch twenty-nine Moving Image works by artists: Chris Avis, Simon Barker, Ruth Beale, Karen Byrne, Lee Campbell, Emily Cannell, Robert P. Clarke, Susanne Dietz, Jane Domingos, Jenny Dunseath, Lucy Ellis, Gretchen Geraets, Tom Hackett, Filip Haglund, Howard Hannah, Wenhui Jiang, Mikky Kuang, Ningrui Liu, Lana Locke, Maureen Maguire and Brian Francis, Marian Obando, Lewis Paul, Joyce jocelyne Saunders-diop, Sarah Taylor, Charlotte Warne Thomas, Kim Thornton, Anna Walsh, Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis and Lianjiang Zhu. https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/annual-open-2023-moving-image/ 

[thunderstruck9]

Frank Charles Medworth (British, 1892-1947), In Ruskin Park, 1913. Oil on canvas, 25.4 x 30.4 cm. Southwark Heritage Centre London

[sealedintime]

Boating Lake, Southwark Park, Rotherhithe, London, 1913

[axel-tiredstudent]

Eternity by your side ❤️

This took way longer than I expected but I'm just soooo happy with the result 🥰🥰

The paintings/photographies I've used as background in chronological order below the cut!

'Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Compass Image' taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch

'Noah's Ark' by Edward Hicks

'When the Morning Stars Sang Together' by William Blake

'Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz' by Salvador Dalí

'Roman fresco with banquet scene from Casa del Casti Amanti (IX 12, 6-8) in Pompeii'

'King Arthur' by Charles Ernest Butler

'London from Southwark' (painter unknown)

'La liberté guidant le peuple' by Eugène Delacroix

'The Cemetery Entrance' by Caspar David Friedrich

'London: The Old Horse Guards from St James's Park' by Canaletto

'St Paul's from Cannon Street' by Ernest Boye Uden

'Piccadilly Circus' by L. S. Lowry

'London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog' by Claude Monet

[kentengland]

Cherry Bullet ~ Love So Sweet #mikfestival #london #cherrybullet #loves...

[chihiro142bus]

Look very tired but very happy because I feel I’m expanding with my practice <3 also this weekend if u are around London im showing at Southwark Park Gallery (*´꒳`*)

[theholmwoodfoundation]

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PILOT EPISODE CAST/CREW - PART TWO

BECKY WRIGHT - THRALLS/PHONE VOICE

Becky voices weird things. Her speciality is small children and demons, make of that what you will... She works across every medium. She played Nic Grundy in ‘The Archers’ for 11 years and continues to appear in regularly in radio dramas on the BBC. Recent credits include: ‘You Must Listen’, ‘Car Crash’, ‘Children of The Stones’, ‘The Battersea Poltergeist’ (Bafflegab/BBC), ‘Lola vs Powerman’, ‘Making Plans with Nigel’, ‘Mythos’ (Sweet Talk/BBC), ‘Barred’ (B7 Media/BBC), ‘Billie Homeless Dies at the End’ (Holy Mountain/BBC) & ‘The Waringham Chronicles’ (Audible Originals). For Big Finish she has appeared in many episodes of ‘Dr Who’, ‘Doom’s Day’, ‘Blake’s 7’, ‘Avalon’, ‘Unit: Nemesis’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘Star Cops’ and ‘Pathfinder’.ops and development sessions for countless new writing initiatives. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and amassed a vast and varied array of weird and wonderful dubbing, animation and computer game credits. On stage she has performed for The Being Human Festival, Nutkhut, The Birmingham Rep, Wolverhampton Arena Theatre, The Bike Shed in Exeter, Hampstead Theatre, The Pleasance and The Tricycle, amongst others. She has toured open air Shakespeare and performed a rep season in a lift shaft! She is very passionate about new work and has been involved in rehearsed readings, workshops and development sessions for countless new writing initiatives.

JESSICA CARROLL - NEWSREADER

Jessica trained at LAMDA. Most recently she played Disciple Z’rell in the multi-award-winning video game Baldur’s Gate 3. Other video games include Divinity: Original Sin 2, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Elex, Spellforce 3, Dragon Quest XI, Unforeseen Incidents and Code 7. Jessica also voices Darcy the Driller, Riff and Jiff in the UK version of the Thomas & Friends cartoon.  Theatre includes Fence (Finborough); Fishskin Trousers (The Park Theatre, Finborough); The Broken Token (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Lakeside, William Andrews Clark - Los Angeles); Quirks (Southwark Playhouse); Old Bag (Theatre 503); Ghosts (Battersea Arts Centre); Hellcab (Old Red Lion); Last Seen (Almeida); The Woman of No Importance (Assembly Rooms Ludlow); Taking Steps (Assembly Rooms Ludlow); Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric Hammersmith). Film and TV includes Hotel Inferno, Polar, The Space In-Between, David & Olivia. Radio includes Life Begins at Crawley and The Future of Radio (Radio 4); The British Are Coming and Liberation Is Not A Recognised Protocol (Apple). Jessica has an extensive voiceover career in commercials, dubbing and the TV and film ADR circuit where she can be heard screaming, crying, doing the news and squawking down police radios in everything from Happy Valley to Bridget Jones.

LUKE KONDOR - ROBERT SWALES

Luke Kondor is a writer, creator, and the voice behind The Other Stories podcast, which has amassed over 12 million downloads. He was recently commissioned by the George A. Romero Foundation to write a Night of the Living Dead audio drama. Currently, he lives and works from a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest. For more, visit www.lukekondor.com.

PART ONE: HERE

PART THREE: HERE

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

Darkness Lane by Joan Hassall [ x ] - the piece that most inspired my recent woodcut-style piece.

When I found out I was drawing for @gorgeousundertow's regency AU fic, Half Agony, Half Hope, as part of the @ineffableidiotsbigbang, I started looking up Jane Austen novel illustrations for inspiration and ended up finding some really cool art and websites! I'm posting about some of the images and resources I found because I think it may be interesting to others too (and even if it isn't, I'll have gotten the infodump out of my system haha).

Illustrations from Mansfield Park by Joan Hassall [ x ]

The link above points to a gallery on pemberley.com which has deliciously old-school DIY website HTML and a wealth of Jane Austen illustrations, as well as references for regency clothing. This was where I discovered Joan Hassall's work and decided I wanted to do a woodcut style piece (and then subsequently regretted it many times during the process of making it because I had no idea what I was doing). The detail, visual texture and dramatic lighting in her work is so cool and I just got more obsessed the more I saw.

See more Joan Hassall on tumblr via @uwmspeccoll (a very cool account!) here, here, and here.

The gallery on pemberley.com also had a bunch of Charles Edmund Brock illustrations, which I could not get enough of and so returned to the searchpage and found Molland's Circulating-Library. SO COOL! Jane Austen fans have bought illustrated editions of her novels and uploaded scans of them and oh my gosh they are all so beautiful.

Northanger Abbey watercolour illustrations by C.E. Brock [ x ]

Side note about Henry Tilney (Catherines' love interest in NA), I also came across this old fan page for him from a mostly-broken-links-now site called THE CULT OF DA MAN and um it's great haha, check it out. (reviews of artists representations of him, more delicious HTML, and pixel art (!) of da aforementioned man)

There's also an article on Molland's about Charles and Henry Brock and their Jane Austen works that I found interesting. Charles is better known and did far more JA illustrations, but I do really enjoy Henry's tinted line pieces! (the article also dunks on some bad reproductions of them haha)

Pride & Prejudice tinted line illustrations by H.M. Brock [ x ]

C.E. Brock also did really cool title pages and when I found out that fic banners were a thing I knew what I wanted to do! (with the help of the symmetry tool and undo haha, so much respect for traditional art)

Title pages illustrated by C.E. Brock [ x ] and my banner - the banner design uses elements of both of the Brock images.

So, research in hand/bookmarks folder and banner completed, I decided on a scene from Chapter 10 where our beloveds are standing beside the Thames in the moonlight after walking around London for hours together and talking (CUTE). I wasn't sure what buildings to include in the background, so @gorgeousundertow gave me a few suggestions: Old Southwark Bridge, London Bridge, Southwark Cathedral, and Clink Prison. I realized after a bit of sketching that bridges would be hard to show with the straight-on view I wanted to do, so I decided on the Cathedral, partially because I had also considered drawing a scene that takes place in Salisbury Cathedral in Ch. 7.

OK BUT HOW? I struggled finding reference images for a while until I realized this was LONDON and would be very Google Earth-able. Big ups to Frank Cosgrove, whoever they are, for uploading this haha. This was also where I found out that all the suggestions were from a very small area!

View of Borough High Street, London, 1830, by George Scharf [ x ]

The building in front of the cathedral looked too new, so I went searching for an older image and found the second image. It's a completely different angle but it was enough to get me past the 'oh no idk what do'.

the much brighter concept vs the much darker finished product, featuring a barely-visible Southwark Cathedral

While looking for images of the Thames pre-Google Earth, I also found this website called Dictionary Of Victorian London which has a whole bunch of old images and excerpts from newspapers, etc on a variety of topics. One of the categories, Sex > 'unnatural offences', had this excerpt from The Times (1863), which reads:

Thomas Lane, a coffeehouse keeper, No.9, Love-lane, Eastcheap, city, and James Mortimer, a seaman, were charged with unlawfully meeting each other to commit an unnatural offence. ... The Magistrate committed both prisoners for trial.

Ugh. I hate that so much. Some sexy stuff happens right after the moment I'd chosen, and reading that reminded me that such things would be much more comfortable and safe in darkness (or if ppl just stopped being homophobic, but barring that). I wanted them to feel alone, like the whole world was asleep and it was just them, outside of time.

With that in mind, the iconic Thames Walk Lamp had to go bye bye, and when rendering the background I tried to minimize any light - it's just the suggestion of buildings. I also added tree cover! I tried to imitate how Joan Hassall does trees in some of her artwork, but when she rendered trees like this they were usually farther away/smaller, so my version looks more stylized with how prominent they are.

The ribbon border and book quote presentation is of course more Brock, but by making it black and having the interior image use it as a border instead of a fade-out inside it, I made it a bit of a reference to the very cool foliage edges you see in the very first Hassall image at the top.

I used the procreate brushes from this post on the Procreate Folio forums if anyone wants to try them!

Also fun fact! The font for the quote is called Chanson D'Amour <3 (I initially downloaded it when making the banner before changing the banner font to one called Dark & Black)

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That's all I have to say about the process for the piece, but here's a comic from Dictionary Of Victorian London, Thames > Sanitary condition that I thought was cute (and gross ig? but also cute):

a Punch comic from 1850, I can't link the page due to how the website URL system works but it's from the Thames > Sanitary condition page

[amaroadriana]

In memory of @berat-yalaz

Southwark Park was perfect in the late hours of the night. There were hardly any people around to disturb the peace she was seeking. With the river gently flowing by, Adriana settled on the side of it and opened a bottle of tequila.

They'd come here once before, drunk and high off their asses, just dancing down the path of the park, seemingly having the times of their lives when, in reality, they just wanted to hide whatever each was feeling inside.

She asked to be alone for this, not wanting anyone else to be by her side, not wanting any distractions, just a moment to herself. Picking up her phone, she found his name 'Bee" with the emoji at the end, and pressed the call button.

It immediately went to voicemail, just as she expected.

"Hey you." She started off, taking the bottle in her other hand.

"I guess this is the last time I will talk to you. I just hear the news..." A heavy sigh left her, as she looked down at the water below her feet. "You were a good one, you know? With all the shit, with all your troubles... You really were. You were a good friend, and you were fun to be around. Up or down, it didn't really matter to me. So it's sad to know that you're not going to be around no more."

She poured some of the tequila into the river, a last solute to him.

"I hope you're going to have rest now. I hope that you forget all your troubles, like they say, and can finally be at peace."

Adriana took a sip from the bottle. "A veces la muerte es más justa que la vida."

Sometimes death is fairer than life.

"I'll miss you."

And so she hung up on him, for the last time.

[cuffmeinblack]

Garreth Weasley x f!OC

Tags: explicit | friends to lovers | dark themes | trauma

Chapter 11

Adanna had never wanted for, nor worried about money. She was frugal; a little bit of her father she'd inherited along with his warmth and slightly naïve nature. Throughout her childhood years she had lived a comfortable life. Of what she remembered, their home in London had been a charming and spacious two-up two-down redbrick house on the corner of Southwark Park; she had lived in modest comfort and always had clean clothes and toys on hand. When her mother passed away and she joined her father on his travels, she hadn't exactly lived in the lap of luxury, and yet she never went hungry, and the pair of them lived on his researcher’s salary in perfect contentment.

As the days preceding Christmas finally dawned on the twenty third year of her life, Adanna finally found herself worrying about money.