It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway. So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

I’m really excited to have some of my cards on sale at Kingfisher’s Bridge, a beautiful nature reserve between Cambridge and Ely. They do lovely coffee and cake, too! ☕️

Family history can teach you so much.

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Here’s a #linocut print I’ve been working on (in a bit of a hurry). I think I might try some more like this… It’s a view along the towpath that runs by the River Cam.

My favourite autumn moth, perhaps 🧡

I’m very pleased to announce that my new Curlew #linocut prints are now available! - limited edition of 10 prints - handmade original art - plant-based inks - no AI involved! - A4 size paper, easy to frame - ready to send to you now in plastic-free packaging. Head over to katiefullerart.etsy.com

@richardkbroughton.bsky.social thanks for your reshare! Much appreciated.

📮 Another Curlew #linocut print (handmade, limited edition) is ready to fledge my studio and fly off to its new home! katiefullerart.etsy.com

A few photos from the 50th Haddenham Steam Rally: horsepower of varying kinds (Suffolk Punch and Shire here) and a lot of smoke in the air!

I’m very pleased to announce that my new Curlew #linocut prints are now available! - limited edition of 10 prints - handmade original art - plant-based inks - no AI involved! - A4 size paper, easy to frame - ready to send to you now in plastic-free packaging. Head over to katiefullerart.etsy.com

Good morning! A Painted Lady visiting my ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dahlia. 🌱 Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Some people call the Fens ‘big skies’ country. Great clouds on a beautiful morning at @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social today, plus ☑️ 3 ravens ☑️ prolonged bittern fly-past ☑️ spotted flycatcher ☑️ lesser whitethroat ☑️ marsh harrier

An eclectic collection of #fruits (and a few seeds) to mark the last day of meteorological summer - all found in eastern England over the last week or two during field surveys, recording and walks - some tasty, some deadly, all beautiful. All names in ALT #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The River Great Ouse looking pretty at Holywell/Fen Drayton today ☀️

A bird dropping has landed on your timeline. Nice. Wait, that's not a bird dropping! 🚫 The Chinese Character combines its curious wing-pattern and resting posture to give the appearance of bird poo as a way of avoiding the attention of hungry predators. 📷: Iain H Leach #MothMonday #TeamMoth

I think these curlew #linocut prints are done. I just added a layer of a slightly darker pinky-purply-brown, and they’re looking good! I wasn’t sure if I’d need a final dark layer on the curlew but I think it works well without it. Now I just need to wait for them to dry…

I never thought I would see Peter Buck (formerly of R.E.M.) performing at the Portland Arms in Cambridge (capacity 200 people). Great sets by Luke Haines & Peter Buck and the Minus Five (same personnel for each band, just a switch around at half time).

If you imagine an invisible speedboat with a black cloud of smoke trailing behind, that might give an idea of how fast a flock of Scoters moves over the sea. Once they’ve landed(?) (sea’d? seaded?) they form sedate rafts, occasionally diving for shellfish. Murky out there today. 🪶🐡 #wildlifeArt

It’s quite nice to be outside and feel cold, for the first time in a long time. Hoodie deployed for drinks in the garden.

I’m making slow but steady progress on my Curlew #linocut prints. With the latest pinky-brown layer, it feels like it’s coming together nicely 🤞

The last known Rodrigues parakeet died exactly 150 years ago. This story ticks a lot of natural history museum bingo boxes: ✔️Sex bias in natural history ✔️Colonial legacies ✔️Dodos But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity: theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

The accuracy of those birds! They are identifiable!

I wrote a bit about frogs, printmaking and why it’s so flippin’ difficult to sell art these days: katiefullerart.substack.com/p/the-tale-o...

🔍 Spot the two frogs?

Ten house martins flying south in clear skies, chirruping as they go. And “our” swifts seem mostly to have left already… 🍂

#birds #birdart #UKbirding #art

A grey and windy walk by the River Orwell and Trimley Marshes yesterday. Good blackberries though!

This #Rye Harbour Hut piece was a joy to create, and really helped shift my mood. The print, along with a workshop to teach you the skills to create similar prints, is now available at handmadebyhaggy.etsy.com. Imagine being in that hut with a mug of tea, watching the storm roll in!

After the rain, a ladybird ventures out onto a borage stem 🐞

I found the wing of a peacock butterfly in the road, prob predated by a bird - Lepidoptera means scaly wing and they can be covered in scales O1mk2, 90mm and 2x focus stack @omsystem.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social

🖋️"With unsustainable wildlife loss across the planet, we need to learn to live alongside all organisms – even wasps." Prof Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social gives a scientist’s guide to dining safely with insects. theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

Test printing the lino block. Little bit of fine tuning here and there on the block and I’ll start printing them. Should be dry in a week if I remember rightly from the good few years since I used the ink.

What a lovely frog, out for a walk in heavy rain ☔️

Just a Goldfinch, busy being a Goldfinch.

🦋 Inspired by the huge and beautiful butterflies I saw in Madeira last year, I’ve created some handmade linocuts which are now available from katiefullerart.etsy.com Original artwork at an affordable price.

I'm almost as excited about the rain due over the weekend as I am in winter when snow is forecast ☔

I know my posts are 90% frogs at this time of year, but what a beaut!

Hedgehog violence in the garden 🦔

After being away for a week, I can safely say that I have missed ‘my’ frogs in the garden. At least six of them are sheltering in the pond today.

Fen Diagram A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself. www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

Shorebird chicks are hatching here in Greenland! This year, egg predation has been intense, especially on Turnstone clutches, so every successful hatch feels extra special. This Turnstone male brooded its four chicks right next to my phone. A bit too close maybe...

It's been dry, more or less, for so long here. We have a pond which hedgehogs and other creatures can drink from but a bit of extra water in a saucer also helps. (Hedgehogs are always scratching, aren't they?)

While it’s so hot and dry, our garden pond is providing a refuge for frogs of different sizes. This was just a little one.

Headfirst into the weekend? It must be #FlyDay! 📷 @manxmannin.bsky.social

It is so hard to convey the sheer quantity of butterflies arriving. Breathtaking to see & I've not witnessed anything like it here in 35 years. Grateful thx to JF for the initial heads up of the passage happening further east of Cley. Incredible! @linnetincley.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Bumblebees ❤️ hollyhocks

Still buzzing from seeing #Wilco at @royalalberthall.bsky.social last night 🥁

Knapweed is a big hit with the bees in our garden