The village will soon be ablaze with scarlet tigers, every patch of comfrey here is thick with their caterpillars ❤️

Just in case anyone needs a minute or so break from the world x

Me making a little sleeping chipmunk

Anna Swir:

Balloon day 😀57 year old me showing my face and declaring it treat yourself day!
(Preordering the new book is a treat just sayin like)

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is from “Katie and the Mona Lisa” (1998) - a pastiche of Botticelli’s “Primavera”… Springtime.

I remember this took me ages to complete. This book remains a favourite in the series simply because I love Italian paintings.

#60for60

Farrukh The Tories have taught the masses to hate asylum seekers. But the UK would be a very different place without refugees.
No Freddy Mercury to start with.
Have a look at this list, pick out the people you would miss, comment and please RT.
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Baroness Bennett, 'I rise with a heavy heart.. To this this dreadful international law busting bill'

'Amnesty international warned airline companies that many members of the public take an extremely negative view of the Rwanda policy'

'Those were unnecessary words because no

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is for my story “The Palace Made Out Of Glass” from an anthology “The Cloth of Dreams” (1992).

Early work - seems a lifetime ago. This was a collection of new fairy tales by 10 different authors.

I was clearly under the spell of Dulac.

#60for60

Acrylic resist and Indian ink demo for my art class. I’m missing my camels 🥹

Today I followed an otter and watched him chase a cat out a rabbit hole! #Shetland

What fictional character did you want to be as a kid?

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Sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor. A pigeon in flight in the archway of St Michael's tower as the sun rises.

🧜‍♀️ did you miss this amazing COVER REVEAL?

The Seamaiden’s Odyssey by Berlie Doherty https://www.facebook.com/BerlieDohe
& gloriously illustrated by Tamsin Rosewell
Out 4th Sept by Uclan. A deliciously dark fable inspired by the folklore of mermaids & richly illustrated throughout! Designed by Becky Chilcott

My Dad gave me this book many years ago.

‘I think you will want to read it one day’ he said.

He was sometimes rather wise, was my Dad xx

Woman is a ray of god.
She is not that earthly beloved:
She is creative, not created

Rumi

Art self xxx

If you see this, post a knight

Yesterday making little plates for our mixed media folk art project

Today, playing about with them a bit.

I think my class are going to enjoy this 🙂

Making print plates to demo to my class on friday as we explore different ways to use folk art to interpret the themes we are working on. They will be making their own 🙂

Partly inspired by the paintings of Maria Prymachenko (and camels, with me, obviously camels 😉)
#arttutor

During the 18th Century, we are told that a woman known as Mary Bebb was charged in Shrewsbury for the crime of 'Profanely uttering 67 Curses' one can only wonder what drove her to it...

#Shropshire #Folklore #Witchcraft

Starting on my next word today, if you become a patron you can give me a word too...

(Human artists can do unexpected things with word prompts, and we only need the one 😉)

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