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Edward Philips Art

@edwardphilips.co.uk
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Freelance designer & illustrator in UK. Endangered species due to AI slop. Birds, music, nature, & vintage rail posters. Commissions welcome, it’s cheaper than you think. Buy artwork from www.edwardphilips.co.uk. Or edwardphilipsart.teemill.com. xx

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 02/10/2026
My publicist has just faxed me that the offer of FREE UK SHIPPING on t-shirts and such like is available once again this weekend. xx
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Thank you for following. Please accept this as a toucan of my esteem. xx 🪶 #beakybirds
Stylized poster showing a keel-billed toucan in profile with a large multicolored bill against a teal background; top-right text reads "KEEL-BILLED TOUCAN" and "Ramphastos sulfuratus."
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating project by Ian Howorth photographing the last working men’s clubs in Britain. The loss of shared social spaces like these has had profound consequences when it comes to belonging and social cohesion. amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...
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Last Orders: these photos from Britain's last remaining working men's clubs are somehow wonderfully serene | Amateur Photographer
Ian Howorth is fascinated by the peculiar visual grammar of Britain: social clubs, old-school hotels and the small rituals of communal life.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 02/10/2026
My publicist has just faxed me that the offer of FREE UK SHIPPING on t-shirts and such like is available once again this weekend. xx
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Thank you for following. Please accept this as a toucan of my esteem. xx 🪶 #beakybirds
Stylized poster showing a keel-billed toucan in profile with a large multicolored bill against a teal background; top-right text reads "KEEL-BILLED TOUCAN" and "Ramphastos sulfuratus."
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 01/10/2026
It's the 1st of Ducktober! So, for those who celebrate, here are some, well, ducks. xx 🪶 #Ducktober www.edwardphilips.co.uk/birds.html
Stylized poster showing an eider duck (Somateria mollissima) floating on blue water.Vibrant vector illustration of a male mandarin duck floating on blue water with a mirrored reflection, labeled "MANDARIN DUCK" and the scientific name "AIX GALERICULATA" in white text at the top left.Male smew (Mergus albellus) swimming on bright blue water, white body with black markings and a green-tinged crest reflected in rippling water.Illustration titled "SHOVELER — ANAS CLYPEATA" showing a male northern shoveler swimming on blue water with a dark grassy bank silhouette, a yellow sun, and the duck's stylized reflection.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 01/10/2026
“…a voice like a Twix melting in a bra fire….” Lovely stuff, as per.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sanderlings scurry into today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight. 🥰 These small, plump waders from the Arctic are a familiar sight on the UK’s sandy shores, darting along the waves in search of food.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 01/10/2026
It's the 1st of Ducktober! So, for those who celebrate, here are some, well, ducks. xx 🪶 #Ducktober www.edwardphilips.co.uk/birds.html
Stylized poster showing an eider duck (Somateria mollissima) floating on blue water.Vibrant vector illustration of a male mandarin duck floating on blue water with a mirrored reflection, labeled "MANDARIN DUCK" and the scientific name "AIX GALERICULATA" in white text at the top left.Male smew (Mergus albellus) swimming on bright blue water, white body with black markings and a green-tinged crest reflected in rippling water.Illustration titled "SHOVELER — ANAS CLYPEATA" showing a male northern shoveler swimming on blue water with a dark grassy bank silhouette, a yellow sun, and the duck's stylized reflection.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Photo. xx
Kettle and toaster photo in black and white with stripey shadows
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Defra is gathering evidence that could shape the future policy on gamebird shooting. Have your say! Have you experienced issues such as gamebird collisions, dumped dead birds, illegal traps, suspicious raptor deaths, disturbance, damage or loss of access to land? For info, visit buff.ly/TGjrkrK
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Half Man Half Biscuit Information Service @hmhbinfo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the vaults: article from Smash Hits, September 1986, contrasting the savvy moneymaking tour machine of the #HMHB of the day, with the naive amateurs Wham! (and The Toy Dolls). With thanks to Brian McCloskey via FB.
Smash Hits page from 1986, articles with photos HMHB,  Wham!  and The Toy Dolls
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Fab photos.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dunlins arrive in today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight! 🌊 Watch for these energetic waders, flying in large flocks across the mudflats and estuaries as they settle in for the winter.
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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Epic news— A review of MADAME COMPOSER is in the Wall Street Journal!!!🥳 Should be in print today🤞🏻 Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘Madame Composer’ and ‘Johannes Brahms’: The Keys to the Heart
Johannes Brahms’s feelings for Clara Schumann were obvious to everyone except his beloved.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight is the Bar-tailed Godwit! 😍 These long-distance travellers fly from their Arctic breeding grounds to settle along UK mudflats, where they probe for bugs with upturned bills.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 26/09/2026
It’s world maritime day. BBC Radio 3 are celebrating by broadcasting from various lighthouses. So, here are some lighthouses just for you. xx
St Mary’s Lighthouse Flamborough lighthouseLongstone lighthouse Muckle Flugga lighthouse
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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My first educational video. This is something I’ve been wanting to do now that I’ve improved my video capturing abilities. So I present a Green Heron hunting. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #ECK #Video #Videos #Educational
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 26/09/2026
It’s world maritime day. BBC Radio 3 are celebrating by broadcasting from various lighthouses. So, here are some lighthouses just for you. xx
St Mary’s Lighthouse Flamborough lighthouseLongstone lighthouse Muckle Flugga lighthouse
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Although that doesn't stop the bills coming in. Speaking of which I'm sending you all a bill, with a lovely toucan at the end of it. Have fun. xx More bills with birds at the other side of them here: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h...
Black-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) in profile with an oversized black bill and bright orange throat against a teal background. xx
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Although that doesn't stop the bills coming in. Speaking of which I'm sending you all a bill, with a lovely toucan at the end of it. Have fun. xx More bills with birds at the other side of them here: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h...
Black-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) in profile with an oversized black bill and bright orange throat against a teal background. xx
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Morning all. Today I'm launching a new range of colourful & 'fun' bird posters celebrating a bird's essential piece of kit: the good old beak. There are over 16* BEAKY BIRD posters + 1 group portrait with more in the pipeline. xx Check 'em out: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h... * i.e. 17
Bird beaks are multi-functional, rather like hands in humans. Used not only for feeding, beaks are also important for display, nest construction, singing (of course!) and even regulating body heat. Poster of stylized bird portraits arranged in a grid that highlights diverse beak shapes and species names on teal panels, titled "BEAKY BIRDS" with a short caption about beak functions.Two stylized yellow-throated toucans facing each other against a teal background; top-right text reads "YELLOW-THROATED TOUCAN" with the scientific name "Ramphastos ambiguus."Stylized poster of a sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) hovering left-of-center, its extraordinarily long bill reaching a red tubular flower at the top right against a solid teal background, with the species name printed in the corner.
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Fankled fibre @fankledfibre.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another finished piece -a needle felted Firecrest. Britains second smallest bird and one of the fiddles to make.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2026
‘Even the most exclusive concert series required a paying audience to survive. But the notion that in order to understand new music one had to be in the know has persisted, as has the image of the composer as specialist.’ Laura Tunbridge on Schoenberg and his influence www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laura Tunbridge · Air of Another Planet: Schoenberg looks forward
Schoenberg looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the...
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 24/09/2026
By the way, if anyone wants to buy two or more posters, just DM me and I can offer you a bit of a discount. There are deals to be done:-) xx
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Morning all. Today I'm launching a new range of colourful & 'fun' bird posters celebrating a bird's essential piece of kit: the good old beak. There are over 16* BEAKY BIRD posters + 1 group portrait with more in the pipeline. xx Check 'em out: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h... * i.e. 17
Bird beaks are multi-functional, rather like hands in humans. Used not only for feeding, beaks are also important for display, nest construction, singing (of course!) and even regulating body heat. Poster of stylized bird portraits arranged in a grid that highlights diverse beak shapes and species names on teal panels, titled "BEAKY BIRDS" with a short caption about beak functions.Two stylized yellow-throated toucans facing each other against a teal background; top-right text reads "YELLOW-THROATED TOUCAN" with the scientific name "Ramphastos ambiguus."Stylized poster of a sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) hovering left-of-center, its extraordinarily long bill reaching a red tubular flower at the top right against a solid teal background, with the species name printed in the corner.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All three of our zines are now available as a set marcdavenant.com/product/set-...
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Set of three zines
Three of Davenant’s high quality zines are now available as a set.
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 22/09/2026
One for the kids…
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dream job for an #editor & nature lover! 🐦🌿Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📅 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £38,710.00 per annum. 📍 BTO HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid working). Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026. #Ornithology
A Nightingale perches on a branch amongst the green foliage of a bush. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring! Science Communications Manager.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The photos from this series are now available in our new zine marcdavenant.com/product/nigh...
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Nighthawks zine
Nighthawks is a zine which brings together a series of mostly unpublished monochrome street photographs taken by Davenant at night. The images are often ambiguous with a view to encouraging people …
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MozartCircle @mozartcircle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#MozartCircle #MozartianScholarWorks #Haydn as a Mannerist Introduction to 18th-Century Music Mannerism! New paper published @MozartCircle: 7 main mannerisms, which shaped Classical music since #Pergolesi, thanks to #Carpani & #vonDittersdorf! #music mozartcircle.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/n...
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Interesting. Where is that?
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our Rebellion! exhibition opens at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead on 23 October and will run until 20 February. Here is something about the project.
Poster with fluorescent pink header and yellow background. The words on the poster read:
Rebellion!
 About the project
 Rebellion! is a social documentary
 photography project which explores
 protest as an essential part of the
 cultural identity of Great Britain.
 The project includes photographs and
 testimony from protesters, as well as
 from those who may have been targeted
 by the protests.
 It explores the social issues around
 protest, such as the fracturing of
 social cohesion in blighted post-
 industrial communities which fuel
 dissatisfaction with the status quo.
 Rebellion! has been developed in part
 as a response to the introduction of
 draconian anti-protest legislation by
 successive governments and the
 imprisonment of peaceful protesters.
 The project makes no judgement about
 the merits of the various protests
 shown here.
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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is (finally) available for pre-order! In book stores Sept. 29... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame...
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
PAY LOCAL ARTISTS FFS.
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Scarborough's 'AI slop' art trail cost £11,688, figures reveal
Artists and residents in Scarborough criticised the trail when it was launched in the summer.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our Rebellion! exhibition opens on 23 October at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead and will run until 20 February. Be sure to leave a comment if you visit.
Punk style poster with a protester with their fist in the air and the words 
Rebellion/
 Exhibition
 23 October to 20 February
 Williamson Art Gallery
 & Museum
 Slatey Road
 Birkenhead
 CH43 4UE
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Morning all. Some printers proofs came yesterday. Very pleased. Some are on the old website already. xx www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage.html
Poster proofs of a train, a station, a Hockneyesque diving pelican and a retro art deco version of Thirsk. More poster proofs of a Stravinsky ballet, two parrots, a glider gliding over the Vale of Mobray and some beaky birds.
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The Cure @thecure.com · 18/09/2026
'BOYS DON’T CRY | THE MUSIC BOX' IS AVAILABLE NOW FROM THE OFFICIAL MUSIC BOX COMPANY OR PRE-ORDER AT MERCH TRAFFIC VIA thecure.stick.site MUSIC BOX ARTWORK BY ANDY VELLA PROCEEDS OF THIS MUSIC BOX WILL BE DONATED TO @doctorswithoutborders.org
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Morning all. Some printers proofs came yesterday. Very pleased. Some are on the old website already. xx www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage.html
Poster proofs of a train, a station, a Hockneyesque diving pelican and a retro art deco version of Thirsk. More poster proofs of a Stravinsky ballet, two parrots, a glider gliding over the Vale of Mobray and some beaky birds.
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Andrew Sehmann @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026
Hey everyone, @henselpushers.bsky.social have a new collaboration of three horn quartets arranged from Fanny Hensel’s vocal music. Check it out here: henselpushers.org/store/p/thre...
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Three Horn Quartets [PDF instant download] — HenselPushers
This arrangement includes three of Fanny Hensel’s quartets, arranged for four horns (in F) by Andrew Sehmann . Songs in this collection: Feldlied (H169), Unter des Laubdachs Hut (H370), and Schöne F...
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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICYMI this week we are celebrating 100 years of the Northern Line extension to Morden, Charles Holden and Frank Pick's first major step in changing the visual identity of the tube. Read more here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/due-sou...
A colour image of a publicity poster for the Morden extension of the Northern Line proclaiming it the longest underground in the world to
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 17/09/2026
quote with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are
The Naked Lunch
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Great. Her ‘Reformation’ album was fab. Highly recommended. xx
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Forton (2024) Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 140cm #painting #fortonservices #notAI #art #landscape
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Less than a week to apply to join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist. ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology #Bioacoustics
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Evening all. I have changed my avatar to celebrate my Inner Toucan. Other toucans are, of course, available as you will all find out shortly. Watch this space for exciting news*. *If you like toucans and other 'beaky' birds. xx
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