Sir Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb marbles put up for auction by family The family of Sir Barnes Wallis, from Effingham, is auctioning the marbles used to invent the bombs.

I used to volunteer alongside this lady she is a legend!! 🤣

A textile artwork featuring a doll with pink painted eyes, bunny like ears, two wings, an arm and a mermaid tail.

Pivoine, a Forest Spirit 🌿

This little beauty is handmade and is a unique and original textile artwork designed to be perfectly imperfect and beautifully strange.
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A selection of Mother themed textile art dolls

Happy Mother's Day 🌞✨🌱

Here are a selection of Mother themed pieces from my archives, enjoy!

#mothersday
#mothernature
#motherearth
#mothergoddess
#divinemother

All kinds of horse-shaped water spirits frolic in freshwater pools across Northern Europe once they are ice-free.

They all have one thing in common: Being malevolent to their spiritual core.

We meet one In our 14th #darkspringtide story, a Glashtin from the Isle of Man - read their story below.

“Fire Down on the Labrador” 

🎨 David Blackwood (1980)

I want to go see them!! 😍

Horror anthology

Latest collection from @britishlibrary.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series has arrived!

#talesoftheweird
#horroranthology
#weirdlit

Medieval woman with rocks, scythe and serrated knife in mouth

Ready for the weekend like:

Green goddess textile art sculpture

The Malachite Goddess

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#goddess
#ancientegypt
#art

Sunrise with pink clouds

Morning sunrise, the clouds were so pink!

Two ancient Egyptian inspired talismans

Two handpainted fish labels

Talismans for the Malachite Field

In Ancient Egyptian mythology the Malachite Field was the term to refer to the land of the afterlife, a verdant and fertile realm of peace and resurrection.

#ancientegypt
#egyptian
#talisman
#magick
#esoteric

I work well with others when they leave me alone

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked door. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

~Joan Didion
🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas

I'm 39yrs old and still regularly have nightmares about turning in my A-level art coursework on time 😟

Little red dragon with blue horns and golden wings, surrounded by gold foliage, illustration from illuminated MS.

A little marginalia.
Dragonlet, Book of Hours, Paris c.1410.

Feline performance art!

Illustration of a female red headed warrior riding a mythical beast

An old illustration from 2022

#illustration
#artsky
#drawing

The Sea Monster
by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1881)
#BookologyThursday

Spring themed art doll with bulb head in green and yellow hues

SPRING SENTINELS 🌱🌞

Two new characters inspired by the coming of Spring, emerging new growth and bulbs flowering. Made from reclaimed/recycled materials.

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Thanks for all the love and comments on these two!

#xphaiea
#textileartist
#artdolls
#magick
#spring

Fairy appearing from yellow flower on dark background, rabbit looking up. Illustration. From The Velveteen Rabbit.

The Fairy Flower, William Nicholson. #FaerieFriday

Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

Two art dolls in spring colours with bulb heads

Spring Sentinels

#artdolls
#spring
#bulbs

A figure in black/dark purple, with a staff, walks a path through a landscape under a blue sky. Oil painting in brown, vibrant yellows, greens, blues and russet.

A Witch in the Swamp
by Paul Ranson, 1897

group of men in fancy dress... a lot of them have antlers one has a hobby horse

'The players in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance'
John Benjamin Stone, ca. 1900

I think two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge that neurodivergence and mental illness deserves grace, while also acknowledging that you are not obligated to accept hurtful treatment. As a neurodivergent and mentally ill person, I understand that I don’t get a free pass to hurt people.

Love!!

St Milburga in nun-like robes, gestures at some geese to persuade them to eat the crops elsewhere.

It’s the feast day of Saint Milburga(d. OTD in 727). Abbess of Wenlock Priory She could create springs of water, make barley grow and persuade geese not to eat the crops in Shropshire.
Raging torrents would also appear to stop men from molesting her. Here she is persuading some Shropshire geese.

#MythologyMonday
Wandering the Mexican Sierra, La Loba tirelessly gathers wolf bones until she has enough for a full skeleton. She takes the bones to her cave and sits by the fire, singing until a living wolf springs from the bones ....
🎨Marisa Quinn

Image of two bulbs made from textiles

Spring is on her way!

#textileart
#artist
#bulbs

Two hand collaged cards of magical flowers and a hand embroidered human faced vegetable

New things are coming hopefully along with some better weather 🌞

#collageart
#embroideryart
#handembroidery