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Andrea 🧡🌻💃 #MDANT @spectralheron.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fabulous evening. First up a visit to the College of Psychic Studies to hear a talk about the art and life of Ithell Colquhoun with a book launch by @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social Can’t wait for the Tate exhibition later this year 🙃 #surrealism #occultart 🖤

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

..and we have a brilliant launch event planned in London - please do come along and join us if you can

Poster for the book launch of Ithell Colquhoun by Emma Sharples

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Lovely news this morning that our latest book is on track and finishing on the bindery and due into the warehouse next week...

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The kind of books you want to find under the tree on Christmas morning 🥰

A photograph of a group of colourful art books displayed on a green and cream armchair with tapestry cushions in front of a Christmas tree decorated with with fairy lights, good bows, red baubles in a green living room

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Short medical interlude over. Now back to the business of book making!

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Altona 93 Fanzines @altona93fanzines.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I spent the day with Lucy Haworth‘s depicton of Marlow Moss’ life and work - and it‘s so powerful and inspiring. A wonderful small book by @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social about a great artist! Thanks for sending it to me, @spiral-tat.bsky.social & @miketyl.bsky.social!

The cover of the book in front of the Alster lake in Hamburg - in between a single seagull.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dame Elisabeth Frink, The Three Riders, 1972 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Presented by Curwen Studio through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Christmas email written and sent ✔️ Book files off to be indexed ✔️ Now time to make dinner and lay the fire 🔥

A flat-lay photograph of the Modern Women Artists series of books displayed in a circle surrounding a lit-up star in the centre of the image. The background shows Christmas wrapping paper with holly, for branches. There is a Christmas cracker with the number 12 in the top right of the image.

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ooh, exciting news! We've just had confirmation of the *perfect* venue to launch our next book on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun in January...

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a black and white photo of a woman holding a crystal ball in her hands .

Alt: a black and white film clip of a woman waving her hands over a crystal ball

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Gift cards sussed ✔️ Newsletter going out shortly Sign up if you'd like to hear more from us and buy some lovely art books for Christmas 💙📚 🎄 eiderdownbooks.com

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Eiderdown Books: Books about Women Artists

Books about Women Artists, written by women authors

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The most beautiful long walk this morning, swiftly followed by a visual migraine 🙄 Now battling with how to make a gift card on our website. Do people still buy gift cards for books at Christmas?

A cream coloured golden retriever wearing a red harness and lead, standing on a canal path with autumn coloured leaves on the ground and green, orange and yellow leaves on the trees above

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Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There is a free event in Edinburgh this afternoon at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust - an afternoon tea and activities to celebrate the book in #ScottishBookWeek. Wish I was in Edinburgh so I could go along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilhelmina...

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Children's Book Celebration

Join us for an afternoon of tea and activities to celebrate our recently published children's book

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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 21/11/2024

Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner 👀 buff.ly/3CErVl5

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This exhibition looks excellent! Exciting to read that a catalogue raisonné for Fell is coming soon too

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Good morning! 👋 Home from our crisp and frosty walk and ready for a day of ticking things off our publishing to-do list ✔️

A photograph of a cream coloured golden retriever wearing a red harness and lead, looking at a clearing in a heavily frosted woodland with a path leading ahead

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Still thinking about this mermaid studio prop from the Paula Rego and Goya exhibition at the Holburne #PaulaRego #Mermaids

A photograph of a flying Mermaid figure from the studio of Paula Rego, currently on display at the Holburne museum in Bath. The female figure is suspended from the ceiling on a blue circular frame. She is bald with a few strands of hair, and an old face, black feathery wings and stares down intently at the viewer

A photograph of the Mermaids prop from the studio of Paula Rego currently on display at the Holburne Museum in Bath. It shows three female mermaids with black wings and fish tails suspended from a blue circular frame hanging from the ceiling.

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Which other artists do you think we should add to our Modern Women Artists series? Here's who we have so: Sylvia Pankhurst Frances Hodgkins Marlow Moss Laura Knight Lee Miller Eileen Agar Nina Hamnett Eileen Mayo Lucie Rie Tirzah Garwood Mabel Nicholson Ithell Colquhoun All ideas welcome! 💙📚

A bookshelf showing the colourful spines of the Modern Women Artists series between lots of other books

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In 1908, aged 50, Olivia Tonge, freed of family ties, adventurously journeyed to India for an extended period, to paint. Her intricate, small-scale works covered both nature & cultural artifacts, & her informative annotations are well worth examining nenaghgal.blogspot.com/2009/07/sket...

Painted images of frogs, insects birds and foliage, with hand-written inscriptions

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

1k followers! 🥳 It's very nice to meet you all 👋

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Is there anything better than a good book by the fire on a cold winter's eve?

A photo of a fireside scene in a green living room at night, with a lit wood burning fire, fireplace with lit candles, china dogs and ornaments on top, and a framed painting of a landscape above. In the foreground, an unopened book - The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Getting ever closer to sending our next book off to print That means pre-orders will be opening on our website very soon... (Must get on and make a product page for it!) 💙📚 #IndePublishing #IthellColquhoun #WomenArtists #ComingSoon #NonFiction

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A lovely photograph of Judith Kerr and a Tiger who has come to Tea. (Photographer unknown to me, but it is a terrific photograph, well done! 🐯)

A photograph of the author & illustrator Judith Kerr holding a big white cat. She’s sitting at a table in her kitchen, she’s got a teapot with a tiger on it, cups and saucers and a plate of biscuits. Her kitchen isn’t modern but it does look lovely, old wallpaper and a shelf with old jars on it. A clock on the wall. A bright pink container of washing conditioner on top of a washing machine in the corner. Sunlight illuminates the scene, the cat and Judith look happy, of course they are…the tiger has come to tea.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 17/11/2024

A show of photographs and Pop art-inspired prints by Corita Kent displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour, writes Catherine Bennett

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Corita Kent, the Pop art nun | Apollo Magazine

A show of Kent’s photographs and Pop art-inspired prints in Paris displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If we could get to Leeds on Thursday, this is where we would be. Sounds like a brilliant exhibition

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Do we need a publishers and their dogs starter pack?

A cream coloured golden retriever laying on a carpet. A messy bookcase behind with books piled up on the floor

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Well that was fun! Love love loved that exhibition. Get yourself to Bath to see the Rego & Goya exhibition if you can - what a great pairing. Particularly enjoyed seeing Rego's studio props and sculptures

Paula Rego's Mother's and Daughters, pen, ink and watercolour on paper

Paula Rego's sculpture Pride (2019) - a lifesize dummy of a woman in eighteenth century dress and hairstyle - in the galleries at the Holburne museum with a large traditional eighteenth century oil on canvas portrait of a man in a gilt frame in the background

Goya's etching of Unhappy Mother (1810-15/20) etching and acquatint depicting a woman being carried away by three men and a child crying

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A day of meetings about exciting new book projects and exhibitions... And now off to see Paula Rego and Goya at the Holburne

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

‘Three Figures’ from Barbara Hepworth’s ‘The Family of Man’ at Snape Maltings, with reflections below. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnder 📷 #photography

Three bronze sculptures on a grass mound in front of a reed bed, under a pale blue sky. Water has temporarily flooded the area in front of the sculptures.

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Good morning! From the top of our hill above the clouds. Looks like another Bluesky kind of a day 💙

A photograph of a blue sky from the top of a hill with low lying cloud in the valley below with green fir trees either side

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Everyone has at least four books on the go at any one time, right? 💙📚 #CurrentlyReading #ArtBooks #NonFiction

Stack of four books about Ithell Colquhoun, Laura Ford, Barbara Jones and Paula Rego on a wooden table top

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yesterday we woke up and thought we'd give this place a go. Very happy to report that in less than 48hrs more than 500 of you are now following us. Welcome! 💙📚 #womenartists #booksky #artbooks

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pick the feeds you want. Each feed has its own handshake BookSky handshake is 💙📚. If you use those emojis, your post will drop into the main feed and the BbokSky feeds.

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It looks like we have lots of new people here again. WELCOME! If you're looking for book stuff on Bluesky here are some hints:
BookSky feed: Use DE
Book Club feed: Use E•
Romancelandia feed: Use #romancelandia
BookSky & Book Club: 950.
There are starter packs of authors & book lovers you can find.

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here's our little book on Frances Hodgkins alongside the Penguin Modern Painters book about her from 1943 The Penguin series was part of the inspiration for our Modern Women Artists series (Hodgkins was the only female artist included in the Penguin collection) 📚💙

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just learning we need to add 💙📚 as a handshake on our bookish posts to show up on the booksky feed..

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Love this painting and thrilled to be including it in our new book (out in Jan) The title refers to an ancient Greek monster who lived in a narrow channel of water and survived by eating passing sailors 🌊 ‘It was suggested by what I could see of myself in a bath' Colquhoun explained

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Very excited for the Tirzah Garwood exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery which opens next week. This is a lovely animated promo using her work. Our introduction to the artist (#10 in our Modern Women Artists series) is still available direct from us and all good bookshops! youtu.be/fy7J6fMWdeQ

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Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious Trailer

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That feeling when you're an indie press and Jeannette Winterson writes an introduction for one of your books on portraiture and the paintings of Susanne du Toit (including one of @pascalepetit.bsky.social)

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Petrified Unrest @petrifiedunrest.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988). La Cathédrale Engloutie, circa 1950. The painting was inspired by stone circles on Er-Lannic, half-hidden by the waters of the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany. The title refers to the Prelude for piano by Claude Debussy, a musical depiction of a legendary submerged cathedral

An aerial view of two adjoining stone circles, forming a figure similar to a figure eight. The circle of standing stones on the left is on the slopes of a small island, descending to the water's edge, where some stones are standing in water. The stones on the island are of a whitish, grey colour, while the island is largely of a pinkish-brown colour with dark-green patches of shrubbery and patches of paler green grass. The circle on the right is almost completely submerged in the water. These stones have a blue-grey hue. Two tall monoliths - positioned on either side of the island - are reflected in the water, its colour a muddy-green hue.

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The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

New shows of women artists in November: Gabriele Münter at the Thyssen Rachel Ruysch at the Alte Pinakothek Dora Carrington at the Pallant Tirzah Garwood in Dulwich Our preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/10/open... Below: Münter's Promenade along the Seine (c. 1904, Kunsthalle Emden)

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Up next: Ithell Colquhoun by Emma Sharples (publishes January 2025)

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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello! 👋 We're an indie publishing house making books about women artists. Here's our series of pocket hardbacks on some brilliant artists you should know. Follow along for latest news and upcoming releases 📚

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