Yarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the 'knit graffiti' movement to brighten up public spaces in a form of street art with crochet and knitting #WomenArt

Yayoi Kusama,
Accumulated Eyes Are Singing, 2010
#womensart #FridayFeeling

Diana Keys, aged 70, who spent 40 years hand painting her own version of the Sistine Chapel in her council house, Hemel Hempstead, UK #womensart

Australian painter Nora Heysen, Self-portrait, 1932 #womensart

Unraveling, (2015-ongoing), by Sonya Clark, US artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage #womensart

Tomiyama Taeko (1921-2021) Japanese artist who created work in painting and prints with political and historical awareness #WomensArt

Sheena Rose, Caribbean artist from Barbados who works with hand drawn animations, paintings, drawings, performance art #womensart

Griffon E. Ramsey, US chainsaw carving artist known for large wood sculptures #WomensArt
(photo D.Parry)

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still life #WomensArt

'The Murmuration tree' by contemporary artist and printmaker Fiona Watson, born in Newfoundland to a Scottish family #WomensArt

Vietnamese artist Diem Chau sculpts detailed figures on the top of crayons #womensart

Poetry is in the street II : #April25 , 1974, by artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, celebrating the peaceful #CarnationRevolution of 1974 which overthrew the fascist regime in Portugal #WomensArt

Celebrated US photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009) known for her social documentary and candid street portraits #WomensArt

'Tulips and Forget-me-nots' by contemporary printmaker Vanessa Lubach #womensart

Glasgow School artist Frances Macdonald, Bows, Beads and Birds, 1911 #womensart

'My Stealthy Freedom' photographic project by Amsterdam-based photographer Marinka Masséus based on an ongoing protest by and featuring Iranian women defiantly throwing their veils in the air #WomensArt

Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper art out of old books, often based on fairytale and nature #womensart

Statue of Anne Lister (1791-1840) by artist Diane Lawrenson, Halifax, UK, unveiled by actress Suranne Jones (who played the landowning diarist & adventurer in the TV series 'Gentleman Jack'). Lister is often described as 'the first modern lesbian'. #WomensArt

My owl drawing in progress...

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