Bishop Auckland Advent Windows presents AlterNATIVITY, download your copy of the list of dates, shops and the schools and community groups all taking part this year
https://t.co/MLX9Uuui5p

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Creativity in Austerity 'Watercolour at War' Superb sampling of official war artists (Sutherland, Nash, Bawden etc) alongside gems from the home front. Helen Kapp, Blackout:Listening to Beethoven, Louisa Hodgson:Study for the Nativity, Ruth Adams:Tea Towels

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Sketch for Christmas Day: Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank, , 2001

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Wishing you and yours a very merry, peaceful Christmas xx. Image: El Greco - Nativity, 1604

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(hope this hasn't been done before!)
The Nativity, Tintoretto, Late 1550s // Frank Reynolds emerges from the Couch, A Very Sunny Christmas, 2009 🎅

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Bethlehem church of the Nativity, 1982. And the crypt, also 1982 - very quiet, very dark, very empty - perhaps of the stone-throwing and buring tyres on the road between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

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William Blake 'The Flight of Moloch'
from his illustrations to Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' c. 1815

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Nativity, Pamplona Bible, Navarre 1197 (Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 168r)

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Sketch of the Day: Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, 2001

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