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Main image: A painting titled Stilleben mit Krügen (Still Life with Jugs), created around 1908 by the German Expressionist artist Max Pechstein.

Artist in Focus: Max Pechstein

Main image: trowel and rake in the soil after preparing the ground for spring seedlings.

Allotment Diaries Part 20 – Squash Beds, Climbing Beans and Spring Seedlings

The Allotment Diaries Episode 20

Main image: a handmade, adjustable silver clay ring, with textured details.

Make Silver Clay Rings at Home

Main image: a woman sat at her laptop, attending a free, online British Sign Language class.

Learn British Sign Language

Main image: a Beatrix Potter illustration of a mother rabbit handing picnic baskets to her young rabbit children.

Artist in Focus: Exploring the Art of Beatrix Potter

Main image: beaded fringe earrings, in cream, yellow gold, white and black seed beads with gold metal connector frame.

Beaded Fringe Earrings

Main image: the Alan Turing memorial statue in Manchester City centre, with the pride and progress LGBT+ flags.

Alan Turing Walking Tour of Manchester

Part of LGBT+ History Month 2026

Main image: a blue tit bird standing on a leaf in the snow in winter.

Allotment Diaries Part 19 – Supporting Birds and Wildlife Through Winter

The Allotment Diaries Episode 19

Main image: "The Lion at Home" by French 19th century artist Rosa Bonheur, completed in 1881. A mother and father lion, lay with their three cubs.

Artist in Focus: Rosa Bonheur

Main image: Snow at Argenteuil" 1875. By Claude Monet. A winter snow scene, with trees, houses in the background and a snowy road with a person walking along.

Artist in Focus: How to Paint Winter Snow Scenes

Main image: "Among the Firs" by Canadian artist Emily Carr - an expressive painting of fir tress, with greens, browns and blues.

Artist in Focus: Emily Carr

Main image: 'Composition', painted by Piet Mondrian in 1921. A variety of blue red and yellow rectangles, with bold black lines.

Artist in Focus: Piet Mondrian

Main image: Sea Anemones, Actiniae by Ernst Haeckel, in his book 'Art Forms in Nature, 1899'.

Artist in Focus: Ernst Haeckel

Main image: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 by JMW Turner, a depiction of the fire see from afar, with blues and bright oranges for the flames.

Artist in Focus: J.M.W Turner

Main Image: "The Codomas" 1946 collage by 20th-century French Artist Henri Matisse. A collage of bright abstract shapes and colours.

Artist in Focus: Henri Matisse