1893. From: “Hypnotism, its Facts, Theories, and Related Phenomena.” #illustration #1890s #hypnotism

PRINT SOCIAL is an exhibition celebrating the printmakers gathering of the same name held in Margate at Resort Studios every month. Alongside the exhibited work by regular members there will be a variety of printmaking activities for people to come and join in with. www.instagram.com/p/DQrcP3XDSI5

Printing in the studio with a pair of devils… #folkhorroralphabet

PRINT SOCIAL is an exhibition celebrating the printmakers gathering of the same name held in Margate at Resort Studios every month. Alongside the exhibited work by regular members there will be a variety of printmaking activities for people to come and join in with. www.instagram.com/p/DQrcP3XDSI5

🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

Leonard McCombe, 1957. “Dublin” #photography #1950s #cats #Dublin #LeonardMcCombe

A year later than planned I’ve finally finished carving my #folkhorroralphabet 🌾💀🌞

This morning; The United States of America. Safe travels Joseph Byrd. #nowplaying

This morning: Archie Fisher. Very sad to hear he passed recently. The brooding lavishly produced title track ‘Orfeo’ is a dense folkloric ballad, a Celtic retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. It’s quite astonishing.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Francisco Fonseca

Well Vito is such a pure soul he just made me cry. Pretty sure you’re all here for my Strictly takes.

1/11/25 - nocturn

Today in Faversham ‘For the Love of Print’. A collection of the finest Kent based printmakers in one room battling it out to the death in their underwear*. Join us. *Selling prints and such.

It Is Time.

Happy Halloween!

‘Lyke-Wake Dirge’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk... #BLOCTOBER2

🎃 Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain. Join Boss Morris, Sam Reid, Jen Calleja, Camille Ralphs & me at Charleston in Firle to celebrate The Darker Half of the year with @roughtradebooks.bsky.social Tickets: www.charleston.org.uk/event/the-da...

This morning; Smog. #nowplaying

Behold... the 2025 face pumpkin! Inspired by many things, but first and foremost I went back to my jack o' lantern roots with an archaeology reference. The Undine / Vodena Vila sculpture from Lepensk Vir, from 6300 - 5900 BCE.

“Are you wearing the-“ “The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/the-... #BLOCTOBER2

Today. Now.

These Hazard Bear prints by @matpringle.bsky.social are so gorgeous. And we've got a few left if you want one... lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/merch/hazard...

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1908. #illustration #1900s #witch #cats #IdaRentoulOuthwaite

A dozen of @matpringle.bsky.social's Hazard Bear linocuts are now available on our Bandcamp! lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/merch/hazard... Check out the video below to see the making process, and definitely check out the rest of Mat's work on his website: www.matpringle.co.uk #Samhain2025

‘Witch Hare’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/bloc... #BLOCTOBER2

This morning; Boards of Canada. #nowplaying

Jesus Fucking Christ. Vote Green.

‘Mummer Frog’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/mumm... #BLOCTOBER2

People of Kent, this is going to be SWELL.

Seriously, you should all read this, and then @matpringle.bsky.social should go and make a print based on it, because… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

Watching Adventure Time from start to finish with my daughter and series five is STRONG.

‘Mummer Frog’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/mumm... #BLOCTOBER2

Book Cover of the Day:

Folk horror linocut printed bunting. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk... #BLOCTOBER2

Wayne Anderson, 1984. From the Time Life series The Enchanted World, “Wizards and Witches” book. #illustration #1980s #WayneAnderson

Folk horror linocut printed bunting. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk... #BLOCTOBER2

This morning; Tortoise and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. Featuring the definitive ‘Thunder Road’. Soz Boss man.

Rotary Connection’s cover of ‘Respect’. youtu.be/rZBpcgfG-_g?...

Inspired by the Richard Brautigan poem of the same name, David Lowery's film 'A Ghost Story', Brian Eno's 'An Ending (Ascent)', existential unrest in turbulent times; a sense of watching and drifting and it all passing you by, the crushing weight of loneliness and the abject horror of a sheet ghost.

‘Boo, Forever’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/boo-... #BLOCTOBER2

Every year the same. Clocks go back. *Time itself* manipulated- ‘for farmer’. And every year the farmer next door to me luxuriates in slumber, delights in lethargy, stews in nod. His fields? fallow; his livestock unattended; his fine machines rusting. Rise, man! Sew; gather; *make hay*

When I was at primary school we used to sing ‘If I Had a Hammer’ from the ‘Come And Praise’ hymn book. It was decades before I knew that this wasn’t a hymn at all, but a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949 in support of beleaguered Black Communist leader Benjamin J Davis.

🚨Public Service Announcement Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself... www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...

1. Big Science - Laurie Anderson 2. From Gardens Where We Feel Secure - Virginia Astley 3. Come Away With ESG - ESG 4. I Just Can’t Stop - The Beat 5. Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants #5debutalbums8084

I watched ‘The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus’ so frequently as a teenager it’s burnt into my retinas but I think this comic might be a more authentic rendering of the event than the actual film footage.👏🏼

The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...

‘Mary Toft’ linocut block. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/bloc... #BLOCTOBER2

💥 Friday Shop Plug 💥 I'll be closing the shop next week, but I'll be back on Halloween at 2pm with the next batch of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed. Hoping next month I'll also be able to sort the new lino print I've been threatening since February... 💀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com