49 years since The Signalman was broadcast.

E.H. Shepard. #illustration #winter #TheWindInTheWillows #EHShepard #KennethGrahame

I’m always a day late on Bluesky!! For the winter solstice, my Mari Lwyd panels- Through nature to eternity and The Heaven’s embroidered cloths.

Favourites 2025 featuring wonky watercolour paintings of my favourite albums (both new releases and new to me), books and films. The Holdovers might have made the list but I only watched it last night. I’ll post some of the previous years below.

Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Sartorial goals for 2026.

According to a Flemish folktale, a woman rumoured to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. She once gave her neighbours enchanted apples that danced during the night. Instead of rejoicing at the sight, they were scared out of their wits. 🎨Florence Harrison

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

Thanks so much for the kind words everybody. I’ve been out all day but it’s lovely to come home to so many nice comments. The print is available here. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/oak-... And there’s a version with music on Instagram. www.instagram.com/reel/CSWWwJE...

Happy Winter Solstice. The light is coming! This is the Holly King who is now at the peak of his powers. Fortunately his ascension is complete so we can look forward to the emergence of the Oak King and moving into the light. From my reduction linocut ‘The Holly King versus The Oak King’.

Musicians with a Solstice Tree puppet, and two of the three folkloric Obby Osses who danced down the aisles of our village church at this year's Winter Solstice gathering. Photographs by Claire-Shauna Saunders. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books. The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.

Just going to watch this Joshua right over and over again until the Palace game has finished.

Thank fuck Karen won, losing so shambolically to fucking Leeds and Amber winning might have sent me over the edge.

Are Five ALL potatoes? I thought boy bands generally had a two potato cap…

Not one for nostalgia but oh my…

I call this one 'The Modern Entitled White Male In Trump's America: A Metaphor'. Or 'The Internet vs Reality'. Or 'Manifestation Is Bullshit'. Or...

"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres" Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent

It is the winter solstice tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere) this is your reminder that English Heritage live stream the sun rising over Stonehenge on their YouTube channel from 7.30am tomorrow morning. www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...

One of my favourite 2025 releases.

Finished my accounts!

Astonished at the number of creative intelligent discerning people who casually use “I asked Chat GPT” when talking about their daily lives. AI is bad, the work of bad people, who hate you, normalised with bad intent. You wouldn’t say “I wrote to the Daily Mail” I wish people had more shame.

‘The Trip’ curated by Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey. An astonishing collection including Carl Orff, Bonnie Dobson, The Beach Boys, Moondog, Jonathan Richman, Dion and OMD. The inclusion of The Fall’s cover of ‘Lost in Music’ acts as a clear expression of intent for the mix. Great thread below.👇🏻

Spooky Advent Day 17: The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale. An ancient evil is unleashed by an electronics research team working in a renovated Victorian mansion with much older origins, apparently haunted by a maid falling to her death. Broadcast as BBC Ghost Story for Christmas in 1972.

18/12/25 - nocturn

It’s a little too on the nose to be charming but it’s well on the way to lovely.

Hello. I would like to celebrate the lost art of the compilation album as an eye and ear opening path into pleasures previously unknown. It might be a sampler, it might be a mix album but it's a person's singular vision of a particular genre or theme. Thread below of some favourites

‘The Marvellous Eve’ by Anne Mandeville, 1972. From the same collection.

Eden (9) has discovered acronyms.

When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.

Tond: a ghost story for Christmas. patreon.com/brokenveil A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel. Support weird content, from as little as £2. Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts. #BrokenVeil

Polite notice: Last date for Christmas posting is 21st December... I post 24 hour tracked - usually quick but NOT guaranteed. So get your orders in folks. I'll carry on posting after that anyway. Thanking you. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

Wrong Speed Records ( @xeaglepissx.bsky.social and I) released 12 records in 2025 (we think) We've chucked a generous Xmas discount on them all until Xmas Eve at Bandcamp - wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com Good chance to check out anything that passed you by and fill some holes in your collection.

Krampus hand painted linocut printed wooden tree decoration. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/kram...

We're currently just 25 subscribers off the magical 2000 that ensures the long-term viability and stability of The Quietus. Join the Subscriber tier today & get instant access to hours of music in playlists covering our three main end of year charts: thequietus.com/subscribers/

This morning; Milkweed. A sonically dense and disheveled creep through archaic Irish folklore. #5albums25

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

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'Here We Come a-Wassailing' linocut print combining the Christmastide Wassail and the Orchard Wassail. The latter folkloric practice is done to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in autumn. I regret not including Ian McShane.

Cute fact: Unbound did not pay my mum for any of the many illustrations she did for the seven books I wrote for them. Nor did they pay my parents for the countless pieces of original art they offered as pledge rewards. They just took the money. And then, eventually, they stopped paying me too.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Here’s to all the unofficial aunties. My aunty Shelia passed aware today and she was a real good one.

A heartfelt thank you to all who buy from independent artists, hire us, or even share our work or give words of encouragement. Even the most established of artists are feeling a decline in work and sales this year. Your support in all or any way is felt and appreciated amongst us! Thank you!!

Folklore themed festive linocut pints! And skulls. 💀 And dancing frogs. 🐸 matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

Spooky Advent day 12: A Warning to the Curious by M R James. This one is based on my reading of the story rather than the TV adaptation for the Ghost Stories for Christmas strand. Another meddling antiquarian comes a cropper after digging up an ancient crown. Reader, he couldn't put it back.

While I'm trying to flog my wares, perhaps I can interest you in a lino print inspired by the ghost stories of M.R. James - tis the season..! 👻 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Folklore themed festive linocut pints! And skulls. 💀 And dancing frogs. 🐸 matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

It is happening. Again.