"Rootling" a 3 layer reduction in green or pinx! Thinking about the lost native species of the UK and what a pre enclosure landscape might be like. #reductionprint #boar #linoprint

“The Plot Chickens” My newest woodcut reduction print 🐓🐓 70 x 50cm, edition of 55 #handprinted #printmaking #printsky #blockprint #artsky

"Rootler" Layer 2 reduction. Planning on one more darker layer. Light, midtone and dark can be a useful way of reduction printing, though often I don't do it this way 😂. #reductionprint #linoprint #boar

Been riso printing a lot on a Tuesday evening at riso club. #risoprint

Back to drawing on my lunch breaks: rosehips are surprisingly variable #sketchbook #dailydrawing

New 2 block lino print "Mistlethrush singing into the storm" which is the energy I'm aiming for as we travel forth. #newprint #linoprint #printmaker

"Our August Tangle" a #reduction #linoprint of our garden. I worked spontaneously outside in the garden using 2 layers of water based ink, 2 of oil based. Trying to be loose and enjoy mucking about. It was a lot of fun and very in keeping with our wee rented garden. #printmaker #botanicalart

Escaped Goat 2: a 36 page #zine #riso printed about my youth doing #riotgrrl thangs . rkwanderings.etsy.com/listing/4344...

I've just spent half a day making this drawing. It was an intense experience - I was drawing from observation outside - and my body hurts now. #drawing #sketch #botany

A little #riso #zine I made at riso club at thin ice press. Tabling at the York Zine Fest 2/8

Life's been stupid hectic. I've been part of the York Printmakers Festival of Print in a pop-up on High Petergate. I'll be there again, end of August. Been #muckingabout with #collographs #tetrapack & #repeat #blockprinting and #zine writing. Some of which be seeable at York Zine Fest 2nd August!

I keep a sketch book in my bag and muck about in it as often as I can. It keeps me together. What about you? #sketchbook #york #shropshire #botanicalart

My first wood engraving. It's blimmin hard to carve in comparison to lino! #printmaking #woodengraving

#printpromptmonday #spring themed my just finished 4 layer reduction print "keep safe" based on a bullfinch nest. #nest #wip #wildness #eggs #bullfinch

#printpromptmonday on Thursday of course: this self #portrait is"The Unkeepable Pumpkin Wife" part 2 of my In Her Hair series unpacking how patriarchy affected the women in my family via sayings and shame & the reclamation of relationship with wildness. #wildwomen #printsky

Here's my super late #printpromptmonday #earth themed two layer + jigsaw lino print "Wintering" featuring a rabbit and bulbs literally sheltering in the Earth from the gorgeous ravages of winter's cold wind. It's set in the Hole of Horcum! #yorkshire #printsky #wintering #rabbit

New tiny #reductionprint in progress - a bullfinch nest. Two layers in is usually a hopeful point in the process. #linoprint #printsky #artsky #wip doing York Open Studios again this weekend if you'd like to see this print in progress.

Ready for some April prints everyone? Gettem hot n fresh here! @printsbythebay.bsky.social, @strangford.bsky.social and I have concocted these beauties, get stuck in and don’t forget to please *share the graphic around* - it really helps us spread the word ❤️ Read below for some tips…

Here's some #friends for #printpromptmonday magpies guarding sleeping female consciousness..."seven for a secret" thanks @gemmatrickey.bsky.social @strangford.bsky.social & @printsbythebay.bsky.social for the awesome prompts

My studio/ front room is taking part in York Open Studios the next 2 weekends. I'm venue 10 and you can all the info on York Open Studios website. It's a brilliant chance to chat all things print making. #printmaking #printsky #openstudio #linoprinting

That moment when a shaft of sunlight illuminates the depths of colour in oil printing inks is how I am interpreting this week's #printpromptmonday #magic theme. My studio will be open the next two weekends as part of #yorkopenstudios if you'd like to see "3 Wise Women" irl!

Sketchbooking - every spring I want to draw all the plants. I never manage it! #sketchbook #botany #artsky

🎺 The Print Prompt Monday - March Prompts 🎺 Interpret the prompts however you want! You might want to hold off posting anything until we make the weekly Monday 6pm post (just you’ll get more engagement then) Give this a share! #printpromptmonday #printing #artshare #art #illustration

Spoilt for choice with this week's #printpromptmonday #foliage - my very favourite thing to look at and carve! Here's "Trespassing" from a couple of years back.

For #printpromptmonday #inprogress here's this very close to being fully carved A3 lino print - the third in my personal generational exploration series "In Her Hair III: a yard of ditch water". The print is of my mother who was told when growing up that "her hair was a yard of ditch water"...

Throwing this print from 2021 into the ring for print prompt Monday “Seal of Disapproval” 73x26cm Lino print #printpromptmonday #water #printmaking #artshare #art #linoprint #illustration

"Nuthatch revealing abundance" - working title of this 3 block print - pretty much happy with the layers and moving on to cutting paper. It's my least favourite printmaking job, I'm treating my ears to Lianne Hall's back catalogue and the new Ani DiFranco to get me through. #printsky #linocut

This week's #printpromptmonday on a #water theme: offering from the past year's archive - super hard to photograph "Depths". A joyful carve, but I printed it onto handmade paper that buckled as it dried. I was happy with the textures though, I tried to not "overprint" and mucked about underprinting.

Serving this week's fish dish #printpromptmonday #flip theme - "salmon of knowledge" 2023 a 7 layer reduction - flipping tail and a right brain flip - I can tell you! Wish I'd got more than 7 out of the edition. (Psst! UK Northerners - I do workshops - mailing list link in bio).

She's finished and hard to photograph! #reductionprint #welshborder #dungbeetle #bracken #harebells

I'm late in all senses to the #printpromptmonday party - I was in A&E yesterday so...! What a marvellous idea @gemmatrickey.bsky.social & @strangford.bsky.social & ?who I can't remember... Sorry. A lino print for "In Motion" prompt: I became a fox (you became an owl)". Should I reprint it?

Layer next on this challenging reduction print. One to go. Oh to be a dung beetle up on Hergest Ridge! #walkingWales #wip #beetle #autumnvibes

Last weekend's York zine fest & black lodge press 2 layer riso poster making. Blorange is a new riso colour to me! #embracediversity #risoprinting #zine #poster

Whoop! I am enjoying printing the 3rd layer of this reduction. It's a memory of last autumn's Offa's dyke walking. #walking #mentalhealth #Wales #reductionprint #reliefprinting

All the grey weather today, so I tried to find the colour in that on my lunch break #lunchtimesketch #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #tree

Having a brackentastic time carving the third layer of my Offa's Dyke reduction print. Some mind bending challenges, not least deciding on the colour to mix, then roll. #blockprint #reductionprint #naturegirl #botanical #mentalhealth #bracken

Half an hour's birch tree carving = bliss. #linocut #linocarving #artsky

I love the second layer of a reduction print - hopeful, with some form poking through. Aiming for two more layers. Wish me luck! #linocut #reductionprint #linoprint #artsky

Doing a heap of carving on this lino block which mixes up Greek myth and Yorkshire SSI Skipwith. Persephone, here, is letting the grief of winter unravel. A messy block I am currently establishing rhythm in. #linocut #linoprint #linoblock #WIP #womeninmyth

Today's #leafportrait - oak leaves are so diverse, there's a few fancy oaks at #yorkuniversity campus that I enjoy the leaves of on my lunch breaks 😂. #dailysketch #watercoloursketch #colourline #sketchbook #drawingtounderstand

"Tree Skirts" new print. Causing me a whole heap of trouble! #linoprint #reliefprint #trees #treeskirts #printmaker #artsky

Been #linoprinting these 3 Wise Women, a new print, carved end of last year. Using epiphany colours - from L to R, brief version: intelligence, compassion, skill #wildwomen #printmaking #artsky #reliefprinting

January's sketchbook: loads of watercolour sketches, all botanical, many from lunchtimes #watercolour #sketchbook #botanicalart #leafportrait

I made a hexagonal repeat block and this happened #linoprint #repeatpattern #blockprinting #reliefprint

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Meanwhile, in the UK, unbelievably, an actual understanding of why extremism (of all kinds) occurs is being worked at.

Avens for today's lunchtime #leafportrait . I felt all rushed as management changed the menu and we lowly workers had a whole bunch more prep to do. But it was good light today. #dailysketch #sketchbook #yorkartist #botanicalart

A new skill I'm learning - wood cut with a view to trying #mokuhanga. Definitely different to carving lino. Newskillz beats the long winter blues. Anyone got any tips? #woodcut #ukprintmaker #pomegranate #artsky #reliefprint

Virginia Woolf Place Setting https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/166102

Today's leaf is bracken, which honestly I could draw for hours not just 15 minutes. How are you all doing through the storm? #leafportrait #dailysketch #botanicalart #sketchbooking #ukartist