Two little wood engraving prints, one of our shrew-like relatives that we all evolved from, and one of twirling strands of DNA amongst the stars.

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[UK politics] Not joyful seeing the forever-terrible-at-strategy left-leaning vote splitting into 3 (between labour, the new 'your party', and a newly populist green party) exactly at the point that the right-leaning vote has converged firmly on the fascists. Wouldn't matter so much if we had a […]

Free NHS and paid private covid and flu jabs are open, book 'em up, don't forget 💚

Tiny little block ready for printing 🧬 Two strands of DNA meeting amongst the stars

New-new studio so close to being up and running ✨ be nice to see an end to the relentless moving and carrying and shelf building and to be back in the world

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission: ▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy. #Astrodon #nature #astronomy

A very beautiful short film, including some fabulous tardigrades - but CW for abuse/ptsd (tho nothing graphic, just implied) https://vimeo.com/1048869506

2.5h of non stop self initiated play and she's still going strong, a very happy creature today #dogsofmastodon

Got etchings up in an actual gallery woop. At The Poly in Falmouth until 27 Sept.

Remember this place has great filter options if you need to give your brain a rest and create a calmer feed

Revolution organised on discord https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests

Little wood engraving of a shrew. We all share a common ancestor with a shrew like creature that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, so say hello to your great great great great great great great great great great great great shrewmother 💚

Nice improvement to the bridging between mastodon and bluesky - a step in the right direction for the problem of not seeing notifications from unbridged accounts https://blog.anew.social/launch-dm-notifications/

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

Apparently I made something 'which feels very much part of a new contemporary aesthetic', and so now I am going to pretend I understand what that means 😎

Funny isn't it, how an absolute non-story about stamp duty tax not being paid correctly by an MP (with good reasons, if anyone were to read into it) comes out right after a likely highly popular and re-distributive new tax approach is proposed relating to stamp duty.

Have kind of been assuming a bit part of this shitfuckery is really about the oil and gas Palestine sits on top of but don't see that spoken about much https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

Hahhahahahhahhahahaaahahahhahaha #allotment

Been nudging bits of my illustration website around including a shameless 'upcoming exhibitions' bit and a gratuitous new 'open for commissions' thing - so if anyone wants a drawing about a thing here I am 💚 https://www.drawingsaboutthings.com/ p.s. why is it so relentlessly painful writing […]

What we already knew but are now allowed to say we know... "The first clinical trial to test the link between food additive emulsifiers and Crohn’s disease has revealed that a low emulsifier diet could be an effective new treatment." […]

Current polling in the UK: Ref: 28% (no change from 17-18 August) Lab: 20% (-1) Con: 17% (-1) Lib Dem: 16% (+1) Green: 11% (+1) SNP: 3% (=)

Night one of GP inflicted sleep restriction to try to fix over a year of relentless insomnia, can totally see how it might work, someone says you can't go to sleep and suddenly you feel like that's the only thing you can do. Brains are such arses sometimes.

It was the latter, just approved: gemmy cerussite in galena from Wheal Clinton: very toxic but I love these micro slabs

Thank you soil and worms and frogs xx

Just helped a friend move house, into a room just slightly bigger than a double bed (maybe about 30cm gap to one side, 60cm at the end). The rent is a whopping £650/month, in a small semi-rural town. Once again reminded how very easy it is for rich people to get richer while dragging everyone […]

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - free workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make electronic noises with them! Location: United Downs Raceway, St Day, Cornwall (situated to the south east of St […]

Just want to share an act of genius from a new friend who made me feel like I've done life completely wrong up to now: She routinely eats mangoes in the bath, and eats them whole. Peels them in the bath too so there's no mess. What a human 😎

Having a studio near a piano teacher's studio makes me realise how that most kids don't practice this instrument at all, just come and struggle through the same boring tunes every week. Please don't make your children learn an instrument they don't actual enjoy playing, it's a […]

Nearly ready for handing in last module of this year... Samples of each type of print made (white toner, etchings with aquatint and chine colle, 2 of 12 wood engravings), a finished book, and a 205 page report. Just one last thing to finish up. ONE MODULE 😂 bonkers.

Top tip from a dog trainer - if you need people to not bring their dogs close to yours because yours is nervy or is in training, tell them your dog has kennel cough, or was violently sick all night, because people are twats and ignore anything else/think they know better. She said all her […]

We only just moved studio, but unexpectedly then got offered one we've had our eye on for a whole decade... so from September we'll be heading out to Potager as our new work-home! It's a beautiful spot, with hammocks, a huge greenhouse to sit in, a fab […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

This tax change would be an absolute game changer for housing in the UK I think https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/18/rachel-reeves-stamp-duty-property-tax-council-tax

Little corner of our open studio today. First time showing my illustration stuff at one 🫣

Been accepted into 2 gallery exhibitions and doing some maths as it's my first time coming up against professional framing and gallery commission fees... So, to get £60 for a single ~A4 print, turns out I'd need to sell it at £174 🤡

If you had to pay workshop participants in vouchers for somewhere that would be widely useful, and absolutely didn't want it to be for Amazon, or anywhere else gratuitously awful, what would you pick?? 🙏

Made a first attempt at a book! Had to do all the decisions, layouts, and get it to the printers in one day, so am surprised that the only real problem is that it's twice the size I meant it to be 😆 It contains my series of 12 wood engraving print following […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Not 100% sure I trust my exhausted sums but think we have enough scheduled work at the studio until this time next year 🤩 which doesn't mean not actually taking on new projects, it means we can focus on fun ones and hand over the ones that aren't so joyful

Was behind a bunch of people in a queue who were talking about how they were protesting in support of Palestine and expecting to get arrested, then saw them pay for their bread with Barclay's bank cards. I'm not anti-protest by any means, but where we put our money is possibly the most power […]

Allotment buddy

My write-up for one of the modules of this illustration MA is nearly double the length of my science PhD, and there is still more to be added. Not saying one is more work and harder than the other, but one is more work and harder than the other.

Having minor crisis over paper choices as is my new norm. Halp.

Signing, numbering and packing my wood engraving series from the big bang through to the formation of one human being. Will be selling these for Medecins Sans Frontiers soon...

Another day in my new favourite place in the world ✨ Editioning two etchings today, which just means making multiple copies of the same prints...

Dream (very niche) job for someone out there! Planetarium Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich... got to have digital technology, science visualisation, astrophysics/astronomy, and science communication experience […]

Drawing! With a pen! Like a normal person! Still surrounded by wood engraving tools tho. Looking forward to printing this next week, it's a container for some words by @vic, with quite a lot of sneaky visual references, and will probably be white toner on some […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Finally tore up all my old lab books, harvesting endless thermal printed images of DNA on gels, to do something therapeutic with. Quite like how they fade over time, so the chronology is baked into the images. Also how I can look at them and without needing to […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

One rogue white petal 🩷🤍🧡 #Bloomscrolling

First time I've been to the doc and they've said the problem is climate change, because tree pollen allergies are becoming more extreme, happening in strange patterns, and continuing all through winter. Thanks exxon :D

Big print day today! All 12 wood engravings printed on delicate handmade paper, tracing life from the big bang through to you existing...