Mary Marshall

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Escaping from… *vaguely waves hands*

The cover of The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling. A stark black and white illustration. An avenue of bare trees recedes into the distance. A black cat just off centre in the foreground is walking away from us between the two two rows of trees.
A slightly rotund grey stripy cat sits on a step. She is wearing a protective collar designed to look like a donut with pink icing and sprinkles. Her expression suggests that she is less amused by this than you, the viewer - and that she is considering a stern letter to the Times, an email to management, or maybe even phoning one of her contacts at The Hague.
A small stripey tabby cat is dragging a toy fox by the tail. It appears to be bigger than her. It is muddy and its nose is missing. It looks nasty.
A toy: it’s a smiley faced cartoon sun made of plush material. It has a hanging loop at the top and a white label on it. It is yellow with white eyes. It is very grubby.
Ginger cat taking a treat from the hand. His greedy face is very much in the foreground.
Ginger cat looking like Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring
A table with a snaking sculpture made of dried reddish Earth. It starts in hills of rough lumps and ends in tiny particles which sinewave along and then almost encircle a smooth sphere of the same dried earth.
Effin’ Birds’s feed on blue sky with the follow button highlighted.
A striped cat is just above the viewer on the forked branch of an apple tree in late flower. The sky behind is dappled with clouds. The cat is yawning. Her mouth is wide, her upper teeth prominent. She looks scary and shark-like.
Comment on “wired” article reads as follows: Human language and knowledge representations are full of inconsistencies. The ambiguity of 'bugs' as gremlins and goblins is just one of many. Cute but not unusual. Until we stop relying on vast quantities of human text, and start building vast physics based neuromorphic systems, we will be swamped with these inconsistencies and 'hallucinations.
Small, vacant-looking orange kitten sitting behind a toy shop-counter/till.
A stripy grey cat with a splash of ginger on her face peeking out from behind some flowers.
A stripy gray cat wearing a stuffed donut collar. It has pink icing and sprinkles. She looks miffed.
A stripy grey cat with yellow eyes
Peter Cushing with Diana Rigg in The Avengers Rigg has an odd, robotic attitude (this is because her character has effectively been turned into a robot, controlled by him).
First person view: my lap, covered with orange, stripy cat in a relaxed, sleepy, curled up position.
Two brown tabby cats relaxing near each other on a bed.
A big old slab reads “I am unable to generate a response tgat meets our community guidelines”.
A drawing of a sunflower, made using a PENCIL. One of my many pencils which you will have to take from my cold, dead hands.
First person shot of my lap with a tabby cat on it. The cat is facing away from me. A glass of beer is out of reach on a coffee table.
A cat in a plant pot in my garden. The cat is striped grey tabby. She looks cross.
A soft, grey, tabby cat with her tummy exposed is being stroked on her tummy. She is lying on grass in the sunshine.
A white supremacist watermark is visible in the centre of the “patriotic” montage full of American flags (detail of the watermark) A reply says “probably should’ve done a better job editing out the white supremacist watermark, samantha”
Feedback on the awful transgender toilets ruling I have clicked “other problems” and written: The guidance does not allow for a lesbian group to include trans women or for a gay group to include trans men. Why? The language is dehumanising towards transgender people.
Watercolour painting of a kingfisher sitting on a branch. He is in profile looking to the left. His orange tummy and turquoise/teal back are very clearly shown.
Red eyed tree frog climbing on a branch. He is green, turquoise, blue and violet. He is glistening with moisture. The branch has moss and lichen on it.
screen shot of two skeets coincidentally next to each other. This first says remember VO5 hot oil? That was good shit The second says FYI the recipe is here.
Screenshot from Aveno’s job description. Highlighted text: Aveno is an equal opportunity employer.
Screenshot from Avelo’s job description page. Highlighted text: Avalon is an equal opportunity employer.
Text from guardian newspaper: The judges also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are a suspended sentence - and a 100,000 Euro fine
Unfinished watercolour painting of a hummingbird sitting on a branch looking to the viewer’s right. It has a red beak and iridescent plumage
Small black and grey canvas handbag with Jack Wolfskin label.
A pencil drawing of a sunflower plant showing the open flower with petals and disc, the stem and a few leaves
Pencil drawing of a pineapple showing the fruit and part of its crown of leaves. It is signed and dated 2016 to the lower right.
Digital line drawing of tabby cat
A graphite pencil drawing of a woman with dark hair tied back in a loose bun. Head and shoulders are visible. Her garment has a smocked yoke.
A watercolour painting of an orange, red and brown Pansy flower. The flower fills the frame.
A watercolour painting of dry leaves and berries of a Sorbus tree is sitting on a tablecloth of William Morris’s Willow minor design. Next to the painting is a palette with blobs of orange, red and brown paint on it. A paintbrush rests across the painting. A box of other brushes is also in the frame.
A watercolour painting of a passion flower in close up. The purple flower is angled slightly to the right. A small part of stalk is visible
A beautiful tabby kitten on a grey couch with tapestry cushions.
A beautiful tabby kitten on a windowsill She’s sitting by some beaded beads and felt flowers. She’s looking up at a beaded bead being dangled to tease her.
A partially painted sunflower. The centre and some yellow petals have been painted, the remaining petals are unpainted or partially painted.
Two children kneel on the floor of a large, bare room with a decorative ceiling, a chandelier and a full length window. The floor is covered in popcorn coming from a metal contraption.
A picture of a small JS Bach labelled “JS Bach” A picture of a large JS Bach labelled JS Mawr
Pencil drawing of a starling looking wet and ragged
Snakes head fritillary flower in watercolour. Two purple flower heads on a green stem.
A striking, spiky, orange and purple Strelitzia flower painted in watercolour
Watercolour painting of a frog in a pond, partially covered in duck weed.
A painting of a daffodil flower in front of a Celtic knit pattern.
The coloured light from a stained glass window striking the opposite wall
Watercolour painting of a purple iris flower
Watercolour painting of a pale peachy yellow rose
Watercolour painting of a Camberwell beauty or Mourning cloak butterfly on a stylised background of metalwork and jewels.
A peacock butterfly painted on a gold background with an ultramarine blue border