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

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. Available littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/les-... #UKGiftAM #art #dollcreation #shopindie #bsnm

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!! 😍

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

Ready for the weekend like:

The Malachite Goddess xphaiea.bigcartel.com #goddess #ancientegypt #art

Morning sunrise, the clouds were so pink!

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 😟

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

An old illustration from 2022 #illustration #artsky #drawing

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

SPRING SENTINELS 🌱🌞 Two new characters inspired by the coming of Spring, emerging new growth and bulbs flowering. Made from reclaimed/recycled materials. xphaiea.bigcartel.com Thanks for all the love and comments on these two! #xphaiea #textileartist #artdolls #magick #spring

The Fairy Flower, William Nicholson. #FaerieFriday

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

Spring Sentinels #artdolls #spring #bulbs

A Witch in the Swamp by Paul Ranson, 1897

'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.

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

Spring is on her way! #textileart #artist #bulbs

New things are coming hopefully along with some better weather 🌞 #collageart #embroideryart #handembroidery

#FolkloreThursday In Japanese folklore, eating the flesh of a ningyo, or mermaid, grants eternal life and youth. It was also said that Ningyo blood will cure any wound. Boxwood ningyo netsuke, Tadayoshi, 19th century collections.mfa.org/objects/19902

Can't help thinking this is the sort of thing a 12th-century chronicler would record as an unheard-of prodigy, just before something really bad happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Snowdrop Mari

Lichen, Lecanora epibryon. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends Lichen is approximately 5cm long.

An old doodle I added some colour to... #illustration #artist #drawing

Roman roof fitting depicting a female spirit #roman #yorkmuseum #archaeology

Naṣāru-Šēpetaya #textileart #mythological #sphinx #babylonian

LEGENDS OF ICELAND Jón Árnason 1962 Frontispiece by J. B. Zwecker for edition translated George E. J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon 1864 #wyrdwednesday #illustration

Centaurs, dragons, and snail shell houses — just a few of the otherworldly marvels depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript (BnF, Français 22971) illustrated by Robert Testard. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/secrets-de-l-histoire-naturelle/

“Owls are howling, loons are crying. Ghosts haunt the land. Ghosts haunt the sea, moaning and sighing, weeping and keening.” (From “Svartedauden”, Black Death - 🎨&✍🏻 Theodor Kittelsen, 1900) #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

Maximilian Liebenwein "The Libyan Princess" (c 1900) Part of an AustrianArt Nouveau-inspired series of prints illustrating the Legend of St George. #goldenageofillustration

How it feels to be alive currently:

'She sobbed on, knowing herself in hopeless conflict with the vastness of death and oblivion, a tiny spark of warmth and life fighting vainly against the dark engulfing it; the perishable spark, struggling against inevitable extinction. For the black god was all death and nothingness...' C.L. Moore

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep." #ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl

Same 2bh

Today's forecast:

New creatures emerging... #xphaiea #artist #textileart #artdoll #magic

HARE'S MOON (for Isobel Gowdie) xphaiea.bigcartel.com #isobelgowdie #folklore #witchcraft #textileart #artdoll

Beast of burden emerges from the books~

#workinprogress on this embroidered 3D hare, a component of the piece I'm working on currently ✨ #embroidery #embroideryart #hare #mythandmagic