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! 😚

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt US #BlackHistoryMonth

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world? accidentalgods.life/the-magic-in... #AccidentalGods #Podcast #Thrutopia

The witch's calendar of harvest refuses ink-marked dates. She knows the turn year by berry swell, by movements through colour towards ripeness. She waits on the mistletoe drupe, not in hope of Christmas kisses, but future cures. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Harvest moon. Painted, engraved stained glass.

Very excited to be showing work in this exhibition. Opening in Wells at Andelli Art on November 1st.

For #UKfungusday here’s one of my illustrations for Wild Folk. A feast of fungi painted on glass.

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild #accidentalgods #podcast #spirituality #BooksofBlueSky #WritersofBlueSky #Books #Writers @tamsintheshed.bsky.social

‘A breezy day’ (From a pre-war Ladybird - circa 1935) Artist: Rene Cloke

For #phantomsfriday She moves through the fair…. Painted, engraved stained glass…

"There is an aliveness...Places where you can go, where the where the veil feels thinner. And what it seems to me you’re creating with your images, are places where the veil can feel thinner, simply by being in the presence of what you’ve made."

• Robert Louis Stevenson •

This was a rather wonderful conversation.

"Remember as thou standest by, As thou are now; so once was I. As I am now, thou soon must be; Therefore, prepare to follow me." Remembering former potato dealer John Standeven, who died on this day in 1854 at the age of 31.

Looking forward to speaking at this rather prestigious event!! www.bsmgp.org.uk/shop/events/...

..or you could join the class if you fancy learning about how collecting alters our brain wiring and thoughts for the better-I'd love to teach you. Every single workshop space I sell helps my massively just now. Thankyou so much for your support & encouragement here x🌿

Because I need to be reminded of how this book, Wild Folk, (which is still fighting to survive) was worth making.

One more work day and the front cover side will be drawn. Then we apparently send it to the current Lord Dunsany. This is my life now.

In 1988 I took a day trip to St Andrews from my rather more lowly (but wonderful) Stirling University. On September 22 I shall be back at Toppings St Andrews to talk all things Wild Folk with Jackie Morris. It’s out only scheduled Scottish event! Tickets www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

Thank you!!