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Emily Tull SGFA

@artbyemilytull.bsky.social
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UK Portrait and wildlife artist. Commissions welcome www.emilytull.co.uk

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 5h
Oh blimey it's #NationalBadgerDay "Brock" Hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p309/B... #WildlifeArt #embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A gold lame fabric background with a hand embroidered European Badger head slightly turned to the left.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 11h
Thanks @nicktankard.bsky.social always lovely to find a fan of a Badger 🦡
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 15h
It's Tuesday, but I keep thinking it's Wednesday! "Sparrowhawk" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p80/sp... #birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A grey/blue background with a hand embroidered Sparrowhawk head and shoulders, in profile, facing to the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Crow Returned Charred Black" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p15/Cr... Something a little gothic for spookey season for #BlueSkyMonday #WildlifeArt #Embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A black and dark blue organza and satin background, on top is a hand embroidered Crow head and neck, in profile, facing to the left.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Badger and Otter now off to new homes
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I couldn't let #WorldAnimalDay pass by. Here are a few of my hand embroidered animal themed artworks. See more on my website www.emilytull.co.uk #WildlifeArt #EmbroideryArt #art
A grid of four animal artworks.
Top left - a hand embroidered European Otter head, in profile facing to the right on a mint green fabric.
Top right - a hand embroidered Tiger head, in profile facing to the left on a grey wallpaper with bronze fern leaves.
Bottom left - a hand embroidered brown outline of a brown hare, in profile facing to the right. A section of the hare is embroidered in detail - half way down the ears to just past the eye and down onto the neck. The background is a brown herringbone fabric.
Bottom right - a hand embroidered horned sheep head, face on, on a white fleece background.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... This! I saw this article yesterday. I could not believe it! (It seems that nothing has changed; we desperately want it to, but it looks as if little - if anything- has)
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seeing a few of these on my morning run "Fox" A4 fine art giclee print of my original hand embroidered artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p135/f... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #WildlifeArt
A cream background with an A4 landscape mode giclee print of a Fox head, in profile facing to the right with a lime green curvey background. Artist signature in lower right corner of the image.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #Baturday #31daysofhalloween
Marginalia of black bat with giant fan like wing.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have new brooches! Six hand embroidered animal wearable pieces of art. These are the last that I am making this year. Find all of the designs here: www.emilytull.co.uk/store/c13/br... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #embroidery #WildlifeArt
a bright white background with six hand embroidered animal brooches. Hedgehog, Frog, Otter, Harvest Mouse, Badger and Fox.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Victorian Charm" Hummingbird hand embroidery on wallpaper artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p46/vi... #SmallBirdSaturday #WildlifeArt #Embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A cream wallpaper with a mid golden brown floral pattern. On top are nine incomplete hummingbirds. A ©EmilyTull logo is on the mid right side.
This artwork is about the Victorian era fascination with hummingbirds, as live specimens, jewellery and taxidermy. It decimated the bird numbers, hence the birds are incomplete, fading into the background.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Inky Caps" Common Inkcaps hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p198/i... #ForestFriday #Fungi #art #embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A mottled mustagrd yellow, cream and lime green fabric background. On top are a hand embroidered group of four common inkcaps toadstools, two are tall amd two new short stems.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A Delicate Flutter (Wood White)" Hand embroidery Butterfly artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p195/w... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #ColorADay #YellowThu
A square shaped artwork.
A mottled mustard yellow, cream and brown fabric background with a hand embroidered Wood White Butterfly in the centre. Artist signature in the lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday I was at the PV of the Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. "Cluster Camouflage - Turnstones" hand embroidery artwork is part of the exhibition until October 10th #WildlifeArt #embroidery #birds
A square shaped artwork.
A grey background, overlayed with patches of brown organza. On top is tiny seed stitch to convey a stoney, rough floor with seven hand embroidered sketches of Turnstone birds. In the lower left corner is the logo for the society of wildlife artists. 
Exhibition can be viewed online: https://buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/swla-2026/?utm_source=e-newsletter&utm_campaign=6cbf983c40-SWLAONLINE2026&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-a8d9aecc50-52204197&mc_cid=6cbf983c40&mc_eid=55e1808eaa&page=3
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How about a Tree Creeper for Wildlife Wednesday. "Creeper Creeper" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p196/c... #birds #WildlifeArt #Embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A mottled mustard yellow and grey background fabric. Down the right side is a brown organza trre trunk. On the left side is a hand embroidered Tree Creeper bird coming up the trunk, looking up. Artisy signature in the lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have a few of my wildlife oil paintings available, including this Firecrest: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM
A portrait mode, rectanglar shaped oil painting.
A light wash of a mid green 0n a white background with a palette knife Firecrest in profile facing to the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Delighted that this portrait has found a new home. "Looking Into The Heart Of Light" hand embroidery artwork. #PortraitArt #Embroidery #FiberArt
A square shaped artwork.
A warm light brown linen fabric background . On top centrally is a large rough edge piece of light antique gold fabric with a dark grey floral pattern with areas of red tone. Two smaller pieces are to the top and bottom left side. On the large piece is a hand embroidered white female face - the face is incomplete, with the left eye missing, no chin and holes across the right cheek and forehead. The woman has light blue eyes and the head is turned two thirds to the left. Artist signature in the lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Inside Out On The Open" hand embroidery portrait artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p293/s... #Embroidery #PortraitArt #art #BlueSkyMonday
A square shaped artwork.
A royal blue background with a silhouette of a short haired person made from a white fabric with red scribbles and black stitching. On top is a hand embroidered face area of a white female with brown eyes wearing black glasses. The head is turned two thirds to the left. Artist signature is in the lower left corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Battle Of The Birds" hand embroidery artwork Three pairs of fighting birds: Blackbird and Thrush, Blue Tit and Chaffinch and House Sparrow and Greenfinch. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p221/b... #birds #StunDay #WildlifeArt #EmbroideryArt
A square shaped artworl with a light green fabric background. On top are three pairs of fighting birds: Blackbird and Thrush, Blue Tit and Chaffinch and House Sparrow and Greenfinch.
The heads are in detail and the bodies are a line drawing (hand embroidered).
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A Tremble - Rosefinch" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p171/r... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #WildlifeArt
A square shaped artwork.
The background is a fabric with birds sitting in a tree printed on it. On top is a hand embroidered Rosefinch head, in profile, facing to the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Crested Tits" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p95/cr... #SmallBirdSaturday #WildlifeArt #embroidery
A landscape mode, rectangular shape artwork.
An off white fleece background with a black silhouette tree trunk on the right hand side and athin bendy branch going across the lower half. Three hand embroidered Crested Tits are perched in different positions on the branch and one on the tree trunk. Artist signature in lower left corner.
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Autumn is here and it feels like the ideal time to remind you of the absolute importance of keeping your dog on the lead when you are in areas where nature is at risk of being disturbed. Film from Borys Kala - Polish Society for Nature Conservation
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have self published books about my hand embroidered wildlife artworks. Hard back, signed. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p134/b... #UKGiftAm #UKGiftHour #WildlifeArt
A photograph of two white fingers holding open two pages of a book om a lilac fabric. On the left page is a flying falcon artwork and the right is a european robin artwork.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Butterfly Trio' - Orange Tip, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary and Red Admiral Butterflies Hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p63/bu... #FlyDay #WildlifeArt #embroidery #art
A square shaped artwork.
An off white satin background with threaa hand embroidered butterflies.
Top: Red Admiral
Bottom Orange Tip and  Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary.
All butterflies are seen face on, wings open.
Artist signature in bottom right corner.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 Submissions close Wed 30 Sep for the Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027. ✅ Short talks ✅ Posters ✅ Monitoring technology exhibitors Aimed at organisations/practitioners/researchers interested in landscape-scale projects More: www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/rlas-symposi... 🧪
Grassy dunes and sea in the background plus headline Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you're in Margate I have five portraits in the Thanet Alive: Awakenings exhibition at The Margate School. The exhibition runs until September 27th. #EmbroideryArt #Margate #PortraitArt
A photograph of a white wall gallery, with a grey floor. In the background there are three landscape artworks in black frames. In the foreground are five hand embroidered white female portrait artworks. All the portraits are incomplete. Next to them is the edge of a large scale painting in a dark brown frame.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Be Bold Like A Blue Tit" hand embroidery artwork. Fancy buying some art and giving to charity at the same time? This piece is part of an online exhibition for the MND Association. behindtheartist.co.uk/miniature-ma... #UKGiftHour #WildlifeArt #BirdArt
A portrait mode, rectangular shape artwork. A bright orange background with a hand embroidered Blue Tit standing on a black branch silhouette.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Autumn Equinox "Gourd" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p77/go... #Autumn #EmbroideryArt #FiberArt
A square shaped artwork.
A sap green background with a hand embroidered orange and green gourd in the middle.  Artist signature in the lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Piglet" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p180/p... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #AnimalArt #art
A landscape mode, rectangular shape artwork. A light green mottled stripe wallpaper background with a hand embroidered Piglet head, turned to thirds to the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here is the other artwork which was supposed to be in the now cancelled exhibition. "Up the garden path" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p32/po... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #art
A square shaped artwork.
A mottled dark green and brown wallpaper with a silver leaf pattern. On top are hand embroidered endangered species: Great Crested Newt, White-faced Darter dragonfly, Spangled Diving Beetle, Tadpole Shrimp and Natterjack Toad.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An exhibition I was going to have artwork in has been cancelled last minute - booo 😔 So sharing them on here instead. "Pond Life" Hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p32/po... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #art #StunDay
A square shaped artwork.
A grey and bronze fern leaf wallpaper background with hand embroidered wildlife species: Great Crested Newt, White-faced Darter dragonfly, Spangled Diving Beetle, Tadpole Shrimp and Natterjack Toad.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Blackbird hand embroidered drawing artwork. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/6... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #WildlifeArt
A landscape mode rectangular sahpe artwork.
A hand embroidered Blackbird drawing in black thread on a white woodchip wallpaper. Artist signature in lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Fancy A Pigeon" Hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p274/p... For the #golden theme #BlueSkyArtShow #WildlifeArt
A square shaped artwork.
A gold background with a hand embroidered feral Pigeon head, in profile facing to the right. A white ©EmilyTull in the lower right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Be Bold Like A Blue Tit" hand embroidery artwork. Fancy buying some art and giving to charity at the same time? This piece is part of an online exhibition for the MND Association. behindtheartist.co.uk/miniature-ma... #UKGiftHour #WildlifeArt #BirdArt
A portrait mode, rectangular shape artwork. A bright orange background with a hand embroidered Blue Tit standing on a black branch silhouette.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The last two days I have been out and about attending PVS of exhibitions which I have artworks in. Last night was the Royal Society of Portrait Painters RP Drawing Prize. A beautiful Art Gallery in the University of Hull. Open until October 18th. #embroidery #PortraitArt
A light blue wall with a square natural wood frame with a raw linen background and a hand embroidered white female with brown hair. There are two massive thread tangles in the top left and lower right of the portrait. The female is turned two thirds to the right and there is only detail from the eyebrows down to the top lip. The artwork is surrounded by the edges of other framed portraits.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Todays the opening of the Royal Society Of Marine Artists exhibition at the Mall galleries, London. I have an artwork in the show (not this one). All artworks can be seen on their website. "Cooked 3" Crab hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p65/cr... #WildlifeArt #EmbroideryArt #art
A portrait mode, rectangular shape artwork. A jade green background with a hand embroidered cooked (red) crab which is cropped in the shaped, with two thirds of the body shell coming down from the top edge with two claws.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sending off this collection of cards today. Find all my available designs here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/arty... #GiftIdeas #WildlifeArt
A landscape mode photograph of five different rectangular greeting cards which are overlapping on top of a padded envelope. The cards have the designs from original hand embroidered artworks: bumblebee, puffin, blue tits, red squirrel and a yellow french fancy cake
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Monday memory today. I was working on this portrait in September in 2021. "The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive" Hand embroidery artwork. #embroidery #PortraitArt #art
A square shaped artwork.
A white sacking fabric with a brown water mark background. Coming up from the bottom right corner is a pale mint fabric with a small floral pattern. The top and left edges or torn away exposing the background fabric. On top is a hand embroidered white female portrait/head. The head has holes in it and ripped away edges so there is no forehead area or the lower cheek area and on hair on the right side. She has blue eyes, is smiling with lips open and is facing forward.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost half of the world's migratory bird species are now in decline, according to a new assessment from BirdLife International, which warns that one in nine species is threatened with extinction:
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Almost half of migratory bird species in decline, BirdLife report finds
BirdLife International's latest State of the World's Birds report highlights the scale of the crisis facing migratory species, while a new international declaration commits governments and financial institutions to protecting entire flyways.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Magpie Eyes" Hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p43/ma... A self portrait about how I believe that Magpies are my guardians. #embroidery #PortraitArt #BirdArt #ThreeForAGirl
A portrait mode, rectangular shape artwork. A taupe fabric background with a white female portrait. The head is hand embroidered with holes in it ( representing bird poo shapes. The female has blue eyes with black eyeliner and mousey colour hair which is plaited on top of her head. She is turned two thirds to the left with her eyes looking to the right. The shoulders are made from black velour.  On the right shoulder is a hand embroidered European Magpie with its back to the viewer and head turned to the left. Another hand embroidered magpie is standing on her head, looking down and another is flying in from the left, looking to land.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have a few of my wildlife oil paintings available, including this Firecrest: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM
A portrait mode, rectanglar shaped oil painting.
A light wash of a mid green 0n a white background with a palette knife Firecrest in profile facing to the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Victorian Charm" Hummingbird hand embroidery on wallpaper artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p46/vi... #SmallBirdSaturday #WildlifeArt #Embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A cream wallpaper with a mid golden brown floral pattern. On top are nine incomplete hummingbirds. A ©EmilyTull logo is on the mid right side.
This artwork is about the Victorian era fascination with hummingbirds, as live specimens, jewellery and taxidermy. It decimated the bird numbers, hence the birds are incomplete, fading into the background.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Robins are for all year round, like this greeting card of my original hand embroidery artwork 🙂 Blank inside. Find all my card deisgns here www.etsy.com/uk/shop/arty... #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #WildlifeArt
A photograpgh of a rectangular greeting card and white envelope on a dark blue background. The card has a European Robin on a dark green background design.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The Chatterers (Waxwings)" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p258/c... #Birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt #FlyDay
A landscape mode, rectangular shaped artwork.
A raw mesh background with a gold berry print. On top are two hand embroidered Waxwings perched on a brown outline of a branch.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Pine Cone" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p147/f... model from my local park. #embroidery #art #nature #FiberArt
A square shaped artwork.
A light lime green fabric background with a hand embroidered pine cone in the middle. Artist signature in the bottom left corner and a copyright Emily Tull logo up two thirds on the right.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lovely news near my neck of the woods of 8 Chough fledglings this year. "Chough" hand embroidery artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p106/c... #birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
A square shaped artwortk.
A Cornish tartan background with a hand embroidered Chough head and shoulders, in profile, facing to the right. Artist signature in bottom right corner.
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Is #WoolyWednesday a thing? "Sheep" hand embroidery animal artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p2/she... #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #embroidery
A square shaped artwork.
A white fleece background with a hand embroidered horned sheep's head looking straight forward.
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland
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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Getting in early today #UKGiftHour Winter Robin greeting cards - perfect for Christmas, can be bought as a single or a pack of four. Blank inside. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p314/r... #UKGiftAM #GiftIdeas #WildlifeArt
a white background with a square shaped greeting card. The design is a turquoise icy background with a sparkly icy tree, on the main branch is a European Robin turned to the left.
The design is from one of my original hand embroidery artworks.
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