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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The myriad stages of the colour version of ‘Black Shuck Arrives on the Norfolk Shore’. Said to be the black hound of the Viking Odin, whose ship is seen here just offshore. Black Shuck has been roaming the coastline and countryside of East Anglia ever since… #blackshuck #blackdog #viking

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A glorious peacock butterfly I found trapped in a glass. Happily, it flew off after a few moments in the sun. #butterfly #peacock

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The iridescent beauty of a magpie’s feather. #magpie #iridescent

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And while I was on the black, I went all the way over to the dark side with Black Shuck… #blackshuck #blackdog

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Top tip for saving some left over printing ink - tracing paper or greaseproof paper are best.

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A day of high excitement… my enormous A1 new cutting mat from @jacksons_art has arrived! It is ‘self-healing’ which sounds miraculous 💫 #paper #papercrafts

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Pretty sure I used to go dancing on a Friday night… #print #dancing #wellsnextthesea

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Some of my sculptures of the male of the species… #men

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

All carved out. Off to sample the genteel charms of Frinton soon, so I’ll test-print this in a day or so. #anchor #linoprint

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A few of my birds. 1. Grumpy Owl 2. In the Pink 3. Moon Owl 4. The Arrival of Spring #bird

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The trace of an evaporated jellyfish on the salt marsh. #jellyfish

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I love making small scale sculptures from pewter - there is something alchemical about it. If you listen carefully after the molten pewter has been poured, you can hear the tiny tinkling sound of the metal re-forming its crystalline structure 💫 These are all on my website. #pewter

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was going to do one thing today & ended up doing something quite different and found myself at an amazing exhibition of Escher’s work at Somerset House. Here are a few snippets of my favourites. Printmakers paradise too - mainly woodcuts and lithographs. A visual and mind-bending feast 💫 #escher

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

‘Starry Night Over Albert Bridge’ will also be making its way into the browser Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition next week. The question for any Londoner - north or south of the river? Are you heading north to Chelsea or south to Battersea as you cross it?! #chelsea #battersea #albertbridge

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A porcine day, one way or the other. This little truffle hunter will be wending its merry way to Chelsea next week for the Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition at Chelsea Old Town Hall 16-21 June. #truffle

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A squeal of flying pigs! I use offcuts of printing paper to make into little compliment slips to complement any prints I’m sending out. #pig

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Come along to the Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition next week! Entry is free, art is good for the heart, the eyes, the soul and the mind. Hopefully you will go away from the exhibition with all of those things refreshed and reframed and with a spring in your step! 💫 #soulfood

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’ve introduced a bit more light into this one. Linocut, 30x30cm - ‘Fireworks Over Battersea’. #battersea #fireworks

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

They know how to make a marvellous dragon drainpipe in Kraków… #dragon

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On the plus side, warm weather is great to carve lino in. Like a knife through butter… #butter

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just came across this oldie, something refreshing to visualise on days like these 🌞 ‘Sea of Stars’ linocut. #refresh #jumpin

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A little experiment in etched lino - to recreate the saltmarshes of north Norfolk. #etching #linoetching

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Barrage balloon art at Ally Pally! This is one of the weights used to tie down barrage balloons in WW2. Too heavy to remove afterwards or maybe this was one was left forgotten in the undergrowth. #barrage #balloon

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happy to be sending one of these off today - ‘Play Among the Stars’, two-block linocut. #stars

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today is International Dawn Chorus Day, so here’s my ‘Mozart’s Starling’ giving it some welly. Mozart had a pet starling, which could sing his compositions. Mozart loved it so much, he gave it a little funeral when it died. #starling #dawnchorus

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

So looking forward to the Zurbarán exhibition at the National Gallery! Along with Velázquez, one of my absolute favourite painters. There’s a terrific review of the show in today’s Guardian. #zurbaran #zurbarán

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Also printing a few of these today - ‘Starlight Over Kenwood’. Just about to head over there for an evening stroll in the spring sunshine… #starlight #hampstead #hampsteadheath

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Printing some Stiffkey vicars today.:. here’s the (flipped) lino plate. #vicar #stiffkey

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It’s Earth Day today. Here’s one of my favourite places on this beautiful earth of ours - Scolt Head island in Norfolk. #scolthead #norfolk

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Signing and numbering some of these - ‘Starlight Over Kenwood’ for its first outing at the Affordable Art Fair next month. Linocut, ed. of 50. #kenwood #hampstead #hampsteadheath

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Amazed to see a hedgehog in the woods this morning - the first one I’ve seen in London for about 30 years! #hedgehog #mrstiggywinkle

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Final layer! ‘Meet You at the Holly Bush’ three block linocut. #hollybush #linocut #printmaking

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Psyching myself up to print some of my ‘Meet You at the Holly Bush’ prints. This is my most complicated print and takes me ages to print each one (swipe for final print). Maybe a cup of tea first… #cupoftea #getdownonit

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The key layer (in marine blue, of course!) brings it all together… ‘The Life & Times of the Bowhead Whale (268 Years)’. #marine

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Rolling out the ink on the key layer… #rolling #ink

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’ve been busy printing for the Affordable Art Fair in May, where I’ll be exhibiting with Contemporarti. All available surfaces pressed into action… #surface

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Diving into the first layer… an ultramarine marine scene. #blue #blueisthecolour

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Having a whale of a time printing some of these today… #whale

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Reading about reading (if only I were in Reading…). #reading

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Printing finished for today. Now to enjoy the evening sunshine from our daily star… #sunshine #dailystar

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Who needs Artemis II when you can simply spin around the universe with your nearest and dearest? Printing some of these today ‘We Are Stardust’. #wearestardust #stardust

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Kate Willows @katewillowsart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Who knew there was a cat genie in Heal’s?! 💫 #genie #cat #heals

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