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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 9h

We know about this don’t we!? Thanks Paul! X

Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 18h

I keep waking up super early. It’s annoying. An upside is that I’ve been doing more drawing in the quiet hours. I’ve never been is a sketcher of life, mainly because to get a drawing right takes me forever (hello perfectionism). Cautiously optimistic that that this is the way forward…

A sketchbook page filled with rough pencil drawings of birds, cats and a dog.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have a Lincoln imp knocker on our bathroom door…

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bit late but here are some shaggy ink caps for day 1 of Retro Supply’s October drawing challenge for the prompt ‘melt’ #frightfall2026 #retrosupply

An image of melting shaggy ink cap mushrooms in a grainy style in pink and brown tones

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm throwing in a free A3 riso of this We Hunt The Beast print with all print orders over 20 quid today and tomorrow (Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th). I just received them fresh from the printer this week and am excited to see them snapping angrily on your walls. #risograph #riso #printmaking

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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Friendly reminder

A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is the Tale Teller, and it’s official: this little grump is now on my website 🎉 Printed on deckle edged a4 sized Nepalese lokta paper. 👉 www.gemmatrickey.com/product/the-...

A strange costumed child with rams head hood

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Enjoying the fantasy of putting this on a T-shirt

A grumpy child whose rosy cheeked face pokes out of a balaclava with pointy top with a pompom on top. The child is staring right at you. Accusingly. The text ‘Have you tried being weirder?’ Is written in pink next to him or her.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

POV: you’ve accidentally wandered into the annual village festival and it’s already gone too far. Local customs are important. Put on the ceremonial mask. Gather round and dance. Don’t ask questions.

A print of masked figures dancing round a fire with the words PEAK VILLAGE FOLKLORE in the centre

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I got the bushcraft covered if the plane downs on a desert island.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I posted this on Instagram and instantly sold two tattoo tickets and had a message from someone saying that this was the tat they got after buying theirs last week. It still blows my mind that people will have things I’ve made on their bodies ✨🥹

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just posted my latest newsletter on Substack. It's quite new so I thought it might be nice to pick someone random when I get to 100 subscribers and send them a free print. open.substack.com/pub/gemmatri...

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Five finds unearthed to help creative but scattered minds

• lughnasadh flames •the neuroscience of flow and not • 10% discount code on prints •

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Become impossible to explain (Irony not lost on me that I decided that this would be the caption but then had to explain the image for the alt text)

A lino print of a marginalia bat with nosferatu’s head.

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why does every person that blasts music from their car have shitty taste in music?

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Turns out, I do mildly freaked out well in lino cut.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Harvest, 1908 by Broncia Koller-Pinell, Austrian Expressionist painter #WomensArt #Monday

Painting featuring a view over a golden crop field as a group of farm labourers work by traditionally collecting the harvest by hand

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What else says ‘I put up with you’ than goat friendship badges?

Two goat badges - one says ‘tolerated’, one says ‘you’

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Em Kait @vladhat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you see this, post a monster 🐙

Linocut of a ship being ripped in half by tentacles arising from the sea under a night sky in two panels

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Someone has acquired a badge machine and is very not sorry.

A badge with a person in a rabbit mask that says WYRD CLUB on it

A badge with a moody cat that says NO on it

A badge with a gargoyle with its tongue out that says MLEM on it

A badge with a big top that says BIG TENT ENERGY on it

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh dear. Some naughty little goats have jumped the garden fence and are eating your knickers. #papercut #paperandscissors #weekendart #goatlife

A papercut depicting two symmetrical goats eating pants from a washing line with underwear pegged to it.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favourite new thing to do as night falls is go up to the garden and read the random craft books I buy in charity shops.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This morning; These Trails. #nowplaying Heatwave appropriate synth-heavy acid folk from Honolulu. One of my favourites.

These Trails self titled album released in 1973 and reissued by Drag City.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m a contrary fucker, what can I say 🙂

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Your punishment if you defy physics and cross forever into the painting world will be to regrout all those tiles.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Help, I've fallen into a painting and now I'm trapped in a 17th century Delft townhouse! Lovely tiles up the staircase though, might stay here...

Painting of the landing of a 17th century Dutch townhouse.

The same view but real, including the original 17th century oak spiral staircase, mmm!

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Em Kait @vladhat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dancing with the Stars Small rat linocut done in prep for the big rat linocut. #linocut #art #artsky #printmaking #printsky #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink #blockprint #ratsky

Linocut of two rats in a doublet and a gown dancing together. The smaller female rat has a crown and holds her skirts while the larger male rat extends his hand upwards

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thanks! What a great article - have you read Threads of Life by Clare Hunter? A fascinating read about meaning and symbolism in textiles and also includes chapters on The Bayeux Tapestry, Changi prison, Mary Queen of Scots embroidery etc?

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Quick proof of concept I made this week. I'm working up a project around textiles, women's work and anonymity - something about how old quilts, samplers and clothes feel a bit haunted. But also talismanic. And maybe a bit burdened, and definitely secretive.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations on getting a copy - it’s so good!! 🔥

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My latest newsletter is out - sharing 5 pieces of idea sparking creative motivation, delightful rabbit holes and a nice discount code of course. Wanna see? gemmatrickey.com/pages/newsle...

A lady holds up a print of a sun and two figures dancing

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I hast materialised in the Netherlands! First stop was to visit the pillar biters of St. Bavo's church in Haarlem, part of a much larger choir screen made in 1517. They supposedly represent hypocrisy, as the local proverb puts it: 'Who is a pillar-biter in church, shits devils in his own house'...

Here we encounter two curious figures carved in wood, grasping at the column that is part of the framework surrounding them and, with great gusto, literally sink their teeth into it, a gesture that distorts their faces and makes them look ugly to the extreme. On the right, we see a man in breeches and a short tunic, a mantled hood and again overshoes.

The far left features a fashionable lady, wearing a long dress and a turban as well as overshoes.

Pillar-biters symbolize excessive piety as well as hypocrisy. This could be explained in various ways. While pretending to be virtuous, pillar-biters forsake their charitable duties, or, while appearing devout to the utmost in church, their demeanour at home is quite different.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Long story, but one room in our house contains a library installed by the previous owners, who left us all the books. It is no lie to assert that I discover something I've never seen before each time I go in. Today's treasure is this 1979 book of British folklore, how has this eluded me for 7years?

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A few extra Solstice Battle prints have stayed home with me instead of going to the exhibition their brothers are to be included in at Garden of Tomorrow Festival. It's a special print to me and marks a personal solstice of sorts, a small voice whispering "don't try so hard, the wheel turns anyway"

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Happy world book day from the irrepressible vulgar a**hole that is Bukowski. I ran out of time to cut the lino. He stood for authenticity over polish and acceptance of imperfection and failure, so here’s the drawing instead. #donttry

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I don’t know why, but I’m drawn to paper cut outs currently. They keep showing up in my scraps and demand to be released from the blank nothing, snipped into existence. I’ll make one first thing when I go into the studio and it seems like a good way to get the day sliced into shape. #artprompts

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swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is what happens when I try to draw faces, only mildly affronted children emerge. The Sulk: four colours, one attitude, and is for anyone who has ever needed a dramatic snood moment. #wallart #limitededitionprints #britishartist #linoprint

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus from over the Severn. The Welsh dragon symbolises strength and spirit, the Somerset example is not going particularly well and is currently having a misunderstanding with its own tail. #woodengraving #printmaking #celticdragon #stdavidsday

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