Growing evidence reveals that creativity is one of the best-kept secrets for boosting your health. From live theatre to a quick crafting break, here’s how to harness the power of art in your everyday life

Merry Christmas, all. Wishing you a peaceful and happy day 🎄

‘Don’t be disheartened by mistakes’: 10 lessons my artist father taught me

Ottawa! If you haven’t had a chance to order online, you can still buy my Christmas cards in time for the holidays! Find them at The Papery, where I just delivered a selection of designs 😊

The limited edition Holiday Perfume bookmark 🍊

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

There’s still a few of the limited edition Raspberries Mini Print in the shop (and others in the same Fruit Collage series, too) 🍊

Tree Dress stickers! Ready to dress up your holiday cards and gift wrapping 🎄

These are the best book covers of 2025 (as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers).

LAST DAY!! Get 20% off your shop order with checkout code HOLLY20 until midnight tonight 🎄

Holiday shipping! Last day for online orders is December 19. Shop closes for the holidays December 20 to January 4 2026 🎄

Thanks so much again to the lovely @longconmagazine.bsky.social for including my collage in their beautiful magazine! ❤️

Don't be shy: submit your art-replying-to-other-art for a place in issue 2.4! Deadline Jan 31. longconmag.com/submit/ (🎨 Suki Seokyeong Kang's 𝑺𝒉𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒚, 2013-2015)

Joy Bird card and limited edition Joy Bird seal. Canada! Get 20% off your order with checkout code HOLLY20 until December 8🪿

Check your sky forecast and turn your eyes to the north, as the northern lights may shine in our skies in the nights ahead. https://ow.ly/y4Mc50XB1hr

Christmas Coquette. My latest collage exercise 🎄

📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier. 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #contest #filmmaking #publicdomain

Great article on illustration by Oliver Jeffers www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

Did you know that today your donation to the United Nations @wfp.org will be automatically doubled, thanks to the Z Zurich Foundation? I’ll be bringing my Hope postcard to the Idle Hands Art, Craft & Vintage Sale on Sunday, too—100% of its sales go to this excellent organization 🕊️

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

My favourite part of Christmas is when Santa comes hurtling past on his sleigh, firing massive balls of plum pudding at our heads 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

Same

Just a little reminder for this Black Friday—support local when you can 💚

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

An Introduction to Hilma af Klint: Once a Forgotten Painter, Now a Celebrated Pioneer of Abstract Art

Now available in the shop! The new limited edition Tree Dress sticker (and matching card, too) 🎄

Beats the doomscroll! The best analogue Christmas gifts in the UK

It’s here! The limited edition Holiday Perfume bookmark is now available in the shop 🍊

Your handy gift guide to art books is here, with something for every artist and art enthusiast in your life — from a comic book for cinephiles to a Goya biography for history buffs to a 1990s lookbook for nostalgic GenXers.

One of the illustrations of German botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian, created on her pioneering 1699 expedition to Surinam, "Iguana and Coral Snake". Her scientific illustrations are renowned for their accuracy. #WomensArt

Having a lot of thoughts about this, but overall very glad to see the real work of illustrators and writers being recognized

Look who’s going to be a limited edition sticker! Coming soon🎄

My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!

Thanks to the current vagaries of Canada Post, ordering and sending holiday cards a little earlier than usual this year isn’t a bad idea 📦

NEW WereRaven postcard. When you’re in the mood for the vaguely disquieting🐦‍⬛

Giant inflatable sculptures by Steve Messam reimagine everyday environments. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/stev...

I’m currently listening to a BBC3 airing of the opera The Magic Flute, and, because it’s in German, I’m only picking up the character names. Which makes me feel exactly like the dog in this Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson 🐶

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by almost 60 per cent – and it is available for anyone to explore online.

Dreamscape. Have a lovely weekend 🌞

The feisty little Junk Mail Dog sticker is here! Fast food flyers are now on notice 📬

'The Reader', a 1817 painting recently identified as the work of Marguerite Gérard, French painter and printmaker #WomensArt

It may be a gloomy and rainy day outside, but today’s order from the lovely @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social shop is bringing the sunshine 🌞

The Age of Anxiety. Today’s collage. I’ve been reading a history of mammals, and it’s wild they survived through a dinosaur age. No wonder we’re all still anxious creatures 🦖

Giovanna Garzoni (Ascoli Piceno 1600 – Rome 1670), Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)

Happy Halloween, all. Have a fun one 🎃

The Haunted House. Available as a postcard 🦇

The WereRaven. Starting off this Halloween week with an older collage that’s soon to be a postcard 🐦‍⬛

Portrait of a Lady Ghost. Today’s Halloween-themed collage exercise 👻

A gloomy rainy morning is a perfect time to delve into this week’s fantastic Uppercase magazine mailings! Thank you so much again, Janine, for beautiful and endless inspiration! 😍