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Painter and digital artist. Folklore, ghosts and folk horror 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Call down the stars. Summon the raging wind. Burn the corruption and reduce your oppressors to ash.

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Westbury White Horse, 1916.

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I made this haggis critter for my Uncle and he sent me these photos. He's named him Angus 💚 Photos by Gary Pinder

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I received this flippin' lovely horse guising folk zine, purchased from @6knifes.bsky.social. Horse..!

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Edward Gorey cover for Nineteenth Century German Tales

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Field Spirit

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Another vintage book cover design. Published by Dolmen Books, 1969. (Not a real book).

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A selection of excellent, inventively made scarecrows I’ve photographed during walks in the British countryside.

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My dad's got another batch of his weird woodcarvings available in his shop tomorrow. I'm contractually obliged to let you know... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com

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Weekend shop plug! Old faves Watership Down and Lantern Men prints back in stock along with upstarts Wisborg Cemetery and Spectre vs Spectre prints - all available for £20 each plus £5 p&p. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

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Nyctophile

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Come in from the cold, friend.

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Portal

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S is for Starve Acre in my #folkhorroralphabet a linocut series inspired by books, films and music with a folk horror bent.

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We were Children of The Hum. We were pylon pilgrims. Each transmission tower was a temporary temple, a station in the electric ley of the land. We marched towards them in a form of rapture that must have scared. the shit out of any outside observers. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave, ex-Pylon Person

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Come join the parade.

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Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

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'Polish Folk Magic' is a guide into the folk beliefs, seasonal practices, living ancestral traditions, and authentic folk magic of the West Slavic peoples. Joanna Tarnawska fills in the gaps where sources have been scarce or inaccessible. www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed... #WantToRead

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“Night Hunt I” and “Night Hunt II” by John Brosio (b. 1968).

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Hungry, hungry guillotine www.inprnt.com/gallery/thou...

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Two photographs of Pictish standing stones at Glamis and Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland, by Godfrey Bingley, 1899

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Harpy

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Divining the bones, Trough of Bowland.

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The Hum #hookland

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One of my favourite uncanny images from Nosferatu (Murnau & Herzog) is Orlok scuttling through Wisburg by night with his prized box of dirt. Decided to make that the subject of my latest lino print! 'Night Sneaker' will be available in the shop from midday on Thursday... 🐀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

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Folk art totem pole.

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Some like to call uncertain landscapes 'thin places'. I don't. For me, uncertain landscapes are deep places, territories packed with possibility. Those spots which give us room project monsters onto, that gift us stories – these are too delightful to be thin. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1982

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R is for a Robin Redbreast from my #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the Play for Today film of the same name from 1970. There’s a fair bit of cack that’s been dug up from the archives in the quest for lost folk horror gems but ‘Robin Redbreast’ is a fantastic short film that…

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Far from all the urban sprawl, the darkness stirred, and said--"You've given up your teeth and tongue to some cruel voice in your head."

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Lady in the Radiator

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Moorland ghost

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Mega and mysterious Dartmoor

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Here's some of my older watercolour paintings.

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Theodor Kittelsen, who died #OTD in 1914, was a Norwegian painter and book illustrator. He drew and painted trolls, the black death, sea monsters, nøkken (“water spirit”), and anthropomorphised natural phenomena such as the echo. visualsquirrels.net/art-illustra...

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Spectral riders, a moonlit graveyard and swooping bats create a eerie scene in Pierre-Félix Wiesener's "The Ride of a Warrior Ghost" (c. 1850). Inspired by Bürger's ballad Lenore, the undead groom carries Lenore to her wedding, pursued by supernatural figures embodying death... #gothic #art

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47,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting. Plz sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... if you would like to see this. Need 100k signs in 4 more months to get parliamentary debate.

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Y’know those little tufts of sheep’s wool you see on barbed wire fences? What if they aren’t always what they seem…

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This is a remarkable moment. Trump and Vance sit there in silence, as a bishop pleas with them to lean on their better angels and not follow through with their depraved campaign promises that target the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. Never seen anything like this.

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Currently 35% off prints!! Go grab some! They're good! www.inprnt.com/gallery/holb...

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Blood Spell

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I have felt you… crawling like a serpent in my body.

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Farewell, David Lynch. A true auteur and visionary artist the likes of which we will never see again.

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Phantom dogs, witches, mischievous pixies, and disembodied hairy hands!

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The witch refuses the lie of empty space. The land is crowded with spirits. The land is full of pools to scry, wild magics to harvest. She walks with her bone knife itching to cut and fill garnering bag. She walks with the wind whispering distant secrets in her ears. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #WitchSky

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