Amidst all the brightness, this can be a dark time of year for some. Guest Post: It's OK to be grieving right now Art by @tamsintheshed.bsky.social & @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Words from me, and @kristofferhughes.bsky.social

We all know plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food - how do we make sure this is what we feed our families, communities and ourselves? accidentalgods.life/roots-to-hea... #AccidentalGods #Podcast #RegenerativeAgriculture #OrganicFarming

Day 23- And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb…. Let us never give up hope of a better future, of peace and tolerance.

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2025: The Mistletoe Bride Featuring an exclusive performance by critically acclaimed folk singer @jackieoates.bsky.social and a rare example of the legend from 1809 Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/christmas-20... Or watch the YouTube version at youtu.be/t3-By7BH_1I

I’m always a day late on Bluesky!! For the winter solstice, my Mari Lwyd panels- Through nature to eternity and The Heaven’s embroidered cloths.

Just glorious ✨ Immerse yourself for a few seconds in glowing glass landscapes and resonant spoken folklore 👇

Ahhhh, that is lovely to hear. Thank you.

Day 19- Garden Tiger. A play on the name of the moth. I hope you like this one. I need a little encouragement to stay with Bluesky. I may go out with the end of the year.

Day 16 - Tree Doors…. Four for the price of one today as I often forget to post here! I do love a portal!

Day 13 - Hookah Smoking Caterpillar - a bit of fun for Saturday! I made this in 2017 for an Alice exhibition at the much loved and missed @bluegingergallery . Again, I think I need to do another version!

The Ninth Window: The Dragon of Kensington Church Street, accompanied by his best friend, a lady who ran a charming flower shop on the High street, had just hailed and climbed into a cab.

Day 9 - Fire Hound. It’s another foul day out there today and I think we’d all just like to be hunkered down by a warming fire with our best beloved. (Fire Hound is available as a print.😅)

Day 8-Stone Circle Solstice-it’s winter solstice and, after a successful evening of foraging,two elderly badgers celebrate the season with a cup of hot berry toddy.In the sky overhead the ancient spirits of the place pass by brighter than ever on the longest night of the year.Available as a print.

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Delighted to have a feature on #GhostsoftheFarm in #BBCCountryfile A story that revealed itself in a filmic, elegiac, dusty light, & truly haunted me. God I'd love to see this as a film. I can picture my forgotten women, zipping each other into dresses, forsaking breeches, to gales of laughter.

Thrilled to announce my new book & reveal its stunning cover! Ghosts of the Farm - Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land & Community, published by the lovely @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social in the UK & US, on 30th September. Available to pre-order now. It’s a delicious, urgent kind of haunting 1/5

"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚

Time to start to recommend books you or your friend might like for Christmas #books #reading #christmas

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

The auctions end over a period of a few hours tomorrow. Still a few items with no bids and available for around a tenner. All supporting good charities.

Great news-Wild Folk, written by the incredible Jackie Morris and illuminated in stained glass by me now has a fantastic new publisher @chelseagreenbooks The book will finally be launched in North America and launched afresh in the UK at the Spring Equinox 2026!

Day 3 - Rook Mother

Day 2. Spirit sister. Painted and engraved glass panel, 2016.

How would it feel to wake every morning knowing that you were here to help all life to flourish? That as a species, we could still become self-conscious nodes in the web of life, to act for the good of all? accidentalgods.life/of-beetles-w... #accidentalgods #Podcast #biomimicry #WritersofBlueSky

It’s that time of year again. Advent and waiting for the light to return. So I thought I’d post an image of my work a day until the solstice. Here’s The Green Knight, a panel I made in 2022 but it’s a subject that has entranced since I first studied the poem at Stirling University in the 1980s.

Amazing weekend happening at Blowfish gallery, Stourbridge in the heart of glass country here in the UK. Incredible sheet glass made by Elliot Walker and assistants. (They are many and skilled.)

Top 5 cosy autumn reads: The Hobbit - Tolkien The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner 🍂📚💙

I originally meant to have this ready for the first of May, ha! Only five-ish months late, it's the next in my Summerisle Procession series of lino prints - It's Holly! Available from 12:00 (GMT) on Wednesday... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Seems like a good day to post this... #Refugees #Asylum

My life has been somewhat erratic over the last few months and I have not had a great deal of time in my workshop and this time is certainly precious at the moment. But I have managed to immerse myself in the process of creating to make a few pieces for Old Chapel Gallery, Herefordshire.

I will need £1 for the socks.

Looking forward to this!

A November Evening, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh.

Had to rest up today as I’ve been over doing things but by this afternoon my energy was returning and I carved this pumpkin. A Wild Folk inspired Black Fox!

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

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

Reading is food for your mind. Like food, different reading choices serve different purposes. Some books are read for pleasure; some to satisfy a need. Some are like junk food; great as long as that's not all you eat. Some help to counter an imbalance in knowledge or experience. Variety is the key.

Did you read (or hear on R4) Chloe Dalton's Raising Hare? Do you love #hares ? Would you like to help their survival in England by establishing a 'closed season'? You've still a few more hours to sign this petition. Shooting hares in the breeding season leaves dependent young to starve to death.

As the veil thins we seek the places of power, touch our ancestors’ hands through time, through stone. The psychopomps offer special favours to bring those who have died another glimpse of the almost forgotten, muted beauty of the earth, perhaps to brush the cheek of their descendants.

* The Greens are on fire – 126k members & counting – while Labour chants “Build, baby, build” & wonders why it sounds like Trump. * Reform stumble. * Farage sulks. * Lucy Powell leads the Labour rebels. * Kemi Badenoch survives for now. This week's news from the Muckrakers Arms

Signing prints on this late October day….

💥 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

My 2026 calendar is finally available! Links to buy in my profile. 🙏🥰🌀🌿

‘The Mermaid of Zennor’ linocut print. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/the-... #BLOCTOBER2

In this Great Transformation where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn to be Good Ancestors began really to speak the quiet part out loud? accidentalgods.life/becoming-spi... #AccidentalGods #Podcast w Jamie Bristow #RadicalCompassion #Mindfulness

New work underway for Old Chapel Gallery (Herefordshire). Exhibition opens on Saturday November 8th. Painted, engraved mouth blown glass.

Feel so out of practice drawing. Here is a tree mari with some fungi and spider webs

“Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?” Chief Arvol Looking Horse accidentalgods.life/building-the... #Accidentalgods #Podcast #BeyondProfit #RegenerativeLeadership

Post you from a different era. I’m the mum btw! 😚