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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 1h

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I’m a watercolour and mixed media artist. I live in Canberra, Australia with my family and three pet rats. I love illustrating weird, horror-tinged stories (colour covers and/or black and white internal illustrations). 👁️ 🐀 🪸 👻 🌀 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 🖤 www.chpearce.net/portfolio

“Cymothoa Exigua”
cover art for Saros Issue #7: Terminally Online
mixed media (pen, pencil, watercolour, gel pen on tinted mixed media paper), 2026
Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

Sunshine Pest Control
Illustration for "Sunshine Pest Control" by C.H.
Pearce in Companion Issue 01
Mixed media

Happy Birthday
Lost Souls
Poster and promotional art for Happy Birthday Lost Souls, mixed media
Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

Careopticon
Illustration for "Tredge, the Informationist: A Story of Sub-Market Street" by C.H. Pearce in Lost Souls Issue 03, pencil and watercolour on tinted paper

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 2h

Them (Laurie Holden as Cybil and Radha Mitchell as Rose from Silent Hill 2006)! The faces aren’t quite right but that’s what practice is for! More original art happening in the background too, will be able to share in the next month or two… 👀 🎨 #fanart

Mixed media sketch (pen, pencil, watercolour, gel pen) of Cybil (Laurie Holden) and Rose (Radha Mitchell) from Silent Hill (2006). Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*panic-chooses and runs away* my9movies.net/en

Saw, The Ritual, The Handmaiden, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Being John Malkovich, Backrooms, Sorry to Bother You, I Saw the TV Glow, Creep

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Excited to have my weird praying mantis story “Fall In” included in @chmmagazine.bsky.social 76 (ed. Jolie Toomajan) alongside these excellent names! Love the haunting cover art by Katie Beardmore. Last pic is internal art I couldn’t resist including too. 🖤 🦑 cosmichorrormonthly.com

Art of a woman enthusiastically waving her tentacle arms, captioned: Invite someone to CHM this week

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

South Coast trip! 🌊 🐦 🏖️

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Willard briefcase full of rats 💼 🐀 🐀 🐀

Willard remake (2003), Willard (Crispin Goover) with bags of rats

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This art is in my print shop now too if you are interested in prints, stickers etc! 🖤 www.inprnt.com/profile/chpe...

Black and white illustration of two women and a pet rat by C.H. Pearce

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How good does the first issue of Companion look! 🤩 So excited to have a story and illustration included in this issue alongside excellent names I recognise! “Sunshine Pest Control” is a short excerpt from a sci-fi/horror project (feat. a rat named Gnashley) 🖤 www.jbrpets.com/companionmag...

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Same, the struggle to choose just 9!! my9games.net/en/

Ico, Disco Elysium, Portal 2, How Fish is Made, Still Wakes the Deep, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Duluxe, Life is Strange, Life is Strange:Reunion, Mouthwashing

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I couldn’t resist requesting an eARC of a horror and Weird fiction collection titled LONESOME AND FESTERING by Eric Raglin (I love the cover art Lou-Ellen Allwood too)! “No Such Thing as a Lonely Sardine” is wickedly brilliant. Full review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Lonesome and Festering: Stories by Eric Raglin

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8968084484

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This nervous little guy Squeaky Wheekers is getting a lot more confident 🐀

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This shy little guy Squeaky Wheekers is getting a bit more confident and happy to be held! When we first got him he was scared of everything (including us and his chonky brothers). #petrats

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring (I love this question and had to include several!!)

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) vs Rover in The Prisoner

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Quick tiny watercolour of Nat and Misty (Juliette Lewis and Christina Ricci) from Yellowjackets! So excited for season 4 it got me feeling nostalgic for season 1… 🐝 🕵️‍♀️ Progress drawings for the curious, I am not totally happy with it but that’s what practice is for! #fanartfriday

Watercolour sketch of Nat and Misty from Yellowjackets (Juliette Lewis and Christina Ricci). Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to have my doppelgängers-on-a-space freighter story “Form a Shape, Besides Yourself” included in Aurealis 194 alongside this excellent lineup! Absolutely love the illustration by Chris Catlin, this is stunning + exactly how I imagined the Marthas! 🤩 🚀👩‍✈️🤷‍♀️🤱🌌 www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

In this issue
From the Cloud—Michael
Pryor
Boy Leaves Girl Inside a Giant Octopus-Cameron
Semmens
Form a Shape, Besides Yourself-CH Pearce
The Vineman of Nancy
—Benjamin George Coles
How Pop Culture and AI
Interacted from 2000 to 2025—Lynne Lumsden
Green

Form a Shape, Besides Yourself by C.H. Pearce. Illustration of two identical women and a baby on a spaceship by Chris Catlin

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula (absolutely loved this found footage horror Afflicted!!)

Clif Prowse and Derek Lee in Afflicted (2013)

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great book launch last night for The Founders’ Legacy by Dr (note the stethoscope!) Donna Hanson with Craig Cormick at Smith’s Alternative! It’s a sci-fi PhD novel and engages with gender in really interesting ways (I was lucky to be a beta reader through CSFG novel crit group). Stunning cover too.

The Founders’ Legacy by Donna Hanson on a bookshelf

The Founders’ Legacy by Donna Hanson book launch

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Someone with 4 paws chewed through a power cable yesterday before we could stop him, but thankfully he’s totally fine!! We are minus one lamp though

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great choices! Aaah only four! Ok here’s mine… The Ritual Dead Mail Vivarium Kill List

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Spooky writer friends, if you have a project @australasianhorror.bsky.social mentorship program applications are open with the deadline extended for another week! australasianhorror.com/mentorship-p... I had a fantastic experience being mentored by @spooktapes.bsky.social in 2022 and blogged 1/2

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Rover and Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) on a beach from The Prisoner (1967)

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Book mail! How perfect does the cover look for Bad Romance (ed. @reasie.bsky.social)! Excited to have my story “Glue Traps for Problem Rats” included in this antho, can’t wait to read the other stories. I adore the art by Grace Vibbert, Mils and Ritten are exactly as I imagined them!! 🥰

“Glue Traps for Problem Rats” in Bad Romance

Illustration of a ratlike woman and her toddler by Grace Vibbert

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This year I’ve been trying to be more strategic about art & not share on socials until after they are sold+published! Also trying to finish pieces (as much as I love sketches). But here’s sketches from when I was writing “Tredge, the Informationist: A Story of Sub-Market Street” in Lost Souls 03 👁️

Pencil and watercolour sketch of an office worker at a computer, another drinking coffee. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excited to get a copy of Dirtbags by @captainamerico.bsky.social and Madison Lee! Made it to writing group for the first time in a while, got some fantastic book and film recs 🖤

Dirtbags by Americo Alvarenga and Madison Lee on a bookshelf

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Quick sketches of Max’s signature dance moves drawn at writing group a few weeks ago (I didn’t get anything written)! Life is Strange: Reunion was the sequel I didn’t know I needed—what a perfect ending to Max and Chloe’s story. Hooked from when this video popped up on my YouTube, the nostalgia 🤯🌀🍂💚

Black and white mixed media sketch of Max and Chloe at the Manon party from Life is Strange: Reunion. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

Black and white mixed media sketch of dancing Max and Chloe from Life is Strange: Reunion. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

Let it Happen, Let it Go by Etta Marcus on YouTube

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Really happy with how the canvas prints turned out! This one has winged its way elsewhere but I took the opportunity to hang it on my wall briefly to take a photo! 🖼️ www.inprnt.com/canvas/chpea...

Art print of a woman with a birthday cake and ghosts. Artist’s signature reads CHPearce

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

More holiday photos (yes they are overwhelmingly of cockatoos)

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

INPRNT do circle stickers now as well as square 👀 (I don’t need any more stickers) www.inprnt.com/stickers/chp...

Circle stickers with watercolour and mixed media art in CHPearce’s inprnt shop

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Excellent books spotted in the wild at the newsagents in Hamilton Island @tanaudel.bsky.social @freyamarske.bsky.social 💖 📚 🏝️

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

my teens which I was immersed in a normal amount (300k novel monstrosity I showed to no one, comics, used to draw these characters every day). Really interesting to dip a toe in from my current perspective. Here’s some very very old art of early iterations of these characters for the curious! 2/2

Art collage of a beleaguered looking man and a gun

Art collage of various fantasy Western characters

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

First family holiday since before lockdown, 6yo’s first time on a plane! 🏝️ 🦜 😎 The cockatoos are so cheeky, I have taken one billion photos

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I couldn’t resist adding more stickers to new-old laptop. It had to happen. 👀 (Some by me and some not!) #stickers #laptopstickers

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Double bill Backrooms then The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act after not going to the cinema in a year or so! Absolutely loved both. Backrooms was a milestone, the first horror film my spouse (who doesn’t like horror) has come along to! Such a great experience seeing TADC with a crowd. 🎪 ❤️

Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in Backrooms (2026)

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Update: I opened it, it did not explode and seems totally fine!

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My parents found a box of my old art things including this warped bottle of ink from maybe 20 years ago! Brains trust, should I open it or will it explode? 🤔 🖋️ 🫟

Warped bottle of drawing ink on a bookshelf

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Stickers from my shop on notebook and new-old laptop! Photo now because I know I’m going to be unable to resist adding more and making it chaotic www.inprnt.com/stickers/chp...

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Quick mini watercolour of Sara (Desiree Akhavan) from Creep 2 (2017)! Plus progress sketches. Creep (2014) & Creep 2 a masterclass in horror/comedy, I could not tell if I wanted to cover my eyes because of The Office-style relatable awkwardness or the unnerving found footage horror 🙈 😱

watercolour sketch of Sara (Desiree Akhavan) from Creep 2. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

sketch of Sara (Desiree Akhavan) from Creep 2. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Great night last night at HBD Lost Souls mag at Gang Gang cafe with Ben O’Mara, P.S. Cottier, @kaaronwarren.bsky.social, @aarondries.bsky.social, @spooktapes.bsky.social, Jenny Sawer, MC @captainamerico.bsky.social, and Dan Power! I am still thinking about these stories… and those hip gnomes 👀 🦴 😱

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Come along to Gang Gang cafe tonight from 6:30pm if you are free for Happy Birthday Lost Souls, spooky stories and music with amazing Canberra creatives (event info in last pic)! I will be lurking and have a few hand-signed art prints for sale too 🍻 🖤 👻 Tix: events.humanitix.com/happy-birthd...

Art print of a woman with an eye on the back of her neck

https://events.humanitix.com/happy-birthday-lost-souls-readings-and-music

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Small biffo, friends again 🐀 🐀 🐀

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So much fun doing the poster art for this Thursday’s spooky readings and music event Happy Birthday Lost Souls at Gang Gang cafe, thank you Lost Souls mag for the commission! Swipe for text version & tix & event info below, it should be a great night 👻🎂👻📚 lostsouls.net.au/blog-happy-b...

Mixed media art of a birthday party with ghost costumes. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Book mail! Excited to finally read The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV (writer) and Álvaro Martínez Bueno (artist) + Jordie Bellaire (colour) 👀 📚 🖤 💀

The Nice House on the Lake deluxe edition

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