This fairly new print - Sir Phillip- inspired by the delicious Black Phillip from The Witch, is now up on my website. Very very happy with this one. #thewitch #folkhorror #goats #blackphillip #linocut #inky #folkart

Cut a fresh new mount for this wee wood engraving that will be auctioned off later this year by Doves for Peace to raise funds for War Child. Very happy with it...not a tatty mess which I was half expecting. #handprinted #dove #woodengraving #engraver #birdart #birdprint #printmaking #inky

X is for X Files from my linocut series #folkhorroralphabet available now. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...

The Ganderling....a limited edition medieval style beasty in gold and dark blue, now available > see website link in my profile. 💥💥💥🕺 #medieval #medievalart #beast #goose #medievalhistory #linocut #lino #inky #goldengoose #historicalart #printmaking #linoprint

A regal bird for a wee personal project I'm working on. #birdart #linocut #linoart #handcarved #birdprint #birdlove #inky #inkyart #makeartnotwar

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Layer 1 is complete! There's a medieval- inspired beasty on the way.... #medieval #medievalart #linocut #linoprint #ink #handprinted #linoart

My first event in Nottingham is done and dusted! It's knackering but oh so good to be engaging with people face to face without an algorithm getting in the way. It was amazing. Time to snooze...

Here's a little update shot of my new print with the final touches being brushed on. #linocut #printmaking #artist #blueskyart #printing #lino #contemporaryprint #handprinted

Today layer #2 was rolled out and my new print is complete (after a little hand colouring too which you'll see in another post). Very happy with my little bat friend. Thinking I might so some smaller bat-focused prints.... probably. #bats #batlove #linocut #linoprint #printmakingtoday

Not managing to keep up with Bluesky very well after the initial push to get off Insta. In a bit of a creative drought so can't reveal any new stuff..... Here are a couple of lambies for your viewing pleasure instead.

If you were designing your own helmet, what would you want it to look like? How about something like this flashy winged burgonet with a face mask on the visor. A burgonet helmet was a Renaissance-era and early modern combat helmet.

This new block is nearly complete! #lino #linocut #printmaking #artprocess #handcarved

Happening soon is the delightful Saltaire Makers Market at Victoria Hall. There'll be loads of good eggs selling their wares from 24-26th May. Roll on by if ya can! #saltairemakersmarket #saltaireinspired #printmaking #yorkshire #craft #craftmarket

It's a printing day! #linocut #inking #inky #printmaking

This is the Tale Teller, and it’s official: this little grump is now on my website 🎉 Printed on deckle edged a4 sized Nepalese lokta paper. 👉 www.gemmatrickey.com/product/the-...

Mini print to welcome in the long weekend.... So brave, so feathery. #birds #linocut #birdart #handprinted #printmaking #makingart in

The new sign for my stall is finished! It took a good few hours of careful brushwork and blurring eyesight but got there in the end! Now to get back to making prints.... #signmaking #medieval #medievaldesign #printmaking #linoprint #printlove #makeart #whippets #handmadeart #crafts

Have a lovely Friday all!

Studies of donkeys, cats, apes Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1616 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Not sure how I’m supposed to read in here with these two staring at me. #printmaking #wallydogs #staffordshiredogs #blockprint #librariesofinstagram #gargoyle

New sign/logo thing is complete! Now to figure out how to make it into a sign ...🤔 #medieval #medievalart #whippets #printmaking

It’s here! 😍

Sketching out a design for a new stall sign / logo type things along with channelling my inner medievalness ....and whippet fanaticism. #gonemedieval #medieval #whippets #linoprint #linocut #printmaker #logodesign

Some little carved friends! I’ve been doing these recently to explore ideas and textures… #printmaking #print #illustration #reliefprint #art

It's #printpromptmonday and this week's theme is #foliage sooooo I'm sharing a bit of my The Yard print which has a nice bit of planty stuff going on. It's a print that celebrates derelict empty spaces and how nature reclaims those spaces. Life finds a way..... #linocut #linoprint #inky #natureart

A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl 🦉(circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

The Bellarmine jug drawing is pretty much sorted I think.

Join us this Friday to celebrate the arrival of spring weather and longer, lighter days in style. This free drop-in event includes creative demonstrations, a display of illuminated texts from our special collections, musical performances and plenty of shiny surprises. www.sal.org.uk/event/open-2...

'My heart beats [in fields of gold]'... its coming to that time of year so time to share this oilseed aerial from a past spring! That rich acid yellow has a spot in my heart 💛💛 I have to do another embroidery landscape like it very soon!! #fiberarts #embroidery

It's #printpromptmonday ! This week the theme is #inprogress ....soo here is an 'in progress' cropped shot of my Mother Nature print which is most definitely not in progress anymore. It was a super complicated piece and took a good chunk of time to carve so there were lots of progress pics!

Morris Hirshfield, Tiger, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135484

Printed my new engraving of the always intriguing green man with a few little creature folk thrown in. #woodengraving #handprinting #printmaking #greenman #folklore #folkart

Popped this ruined chapel after a good long walk with the whippo. Lots of gnarly old Yews, bird song and craggy stones. Ace. #churchcrawling #ukhistory #ruins

Getting there.... Hope everyone's having a smooth Friday! #greenman #folklore #woodengraving #woodengraver #handcarving #folk #reliefprint #printmakingprocess

Stonehenge holding up my tiny wee block of Boxwood for the green man carving session today... #stonehenge #greenman #woodengraving #printmaking #folklore #ancienthistory #ancientbritain #megaliths

The Great and Terrible One Liv Rainey-Smith Woodcut print hand tinted and gilded This unique artist proof was made for a Patreon supporter, and is the first print to leave my studio with a glow in the dark element. #art #woodcut #printmaking

It's #printpromptmonday ....yay! This week the theme is #water so here's my contribution which has a fair amount of the stuff. 'Under the Sea and Over the Stars' was inspired by a totally magical trip to Orkney last year. Can't wait to see what people post for the prompt this week 🤟👍

Hung out at the edge of the UK today, saw a couple of puffins, got annoyed at the aggressiveness of a greedy gannet and roamed around oldy churches. A good day!

Loving these squiggles. An ancient cross shaft fragment in a super old church in York. #churchcrawling #york #history #historicalbuildings #buildingarchaeology #squiggles

Today is 'productivity day' and one thing ticked off the list is adding my new print The Bends to my website...so folks that is now available to order if you fancy one of these bendy boys. 🤟 There's a link to my website in my profile 🙂

Lots of beautiful graffiti on an effigy I spotted today in a super old church. #churchcrawling #graffiti #history

Tomorrow's plan. A short 4.5 mile mooch around the Thornborough Henges, and maybe scope out an old medieval village (and try and find some treasure). Outdoor adventures...I need you!

This week's #printpromptmonday prompt is #flipped so I'm going with this......a delightful webbed-footed beetle creature that revealed itself as I rolled back (aka flipped) the paper after printing my latest bendy swan print. 🦢🍜

For #printPromptMonday prompt “flipped” I am sharing my portrait of #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if flipped in the mirror)! 🧪🐡🎢👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci In my print on 🧵

It's Day 2 here at the Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival. 🎉 There's a bunch of new faces with new prints and friendly chinwaggery. 🤟 Roll on by if you can! #sunnybankmills #printmaking #makeartnotwar #linocut

Woohoo! Can't wait .

More jug doodling. (First time I've ever typed that). This time a Bellarmine! Hanging out with the sherds of actual 16/17th century examples I found years back. So beardy and confrontational! #pottery #illustration #ceramics #archaeology #artefacts #printmaking #oldpottery #linocuts

Doodling medieval face jugs. Life to-do list is just a little shorter now. #doodling #medieval #pottery #medievalworld #printmaker

Time to sign, number and give a title to the first run of these babies. #printmaking #linoprint #printmakers #ukartists #swans