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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 07/10/2026

I've been working on some drawings of the circulatory system, trying to get the texture right. I think the coloured biro lines on the right look good. Biro ftw (again!) 🐡

Full human body sketch with circulatory system in blue and red. Left: watercolour. Right (head and shoulders only): biro.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Maybe something about fluorescent proteins

Three keyrings glowing under UV light. Blue: crystal jellyfish. Green: green fluorescent protein (GFP). Pink: mauve stinger jellyfish. Background: climbing wall. 🐡

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I just did my annual thing of wanting to find something on Twi/X, scrolling for ages and ending up feeling sad for how things once were (not in a good way). The thing I was looking turned out to be not that exciting after all.

Screenshot of a social media post from July 3 2019. Text: My research in #kidney #systemsbio as told using laser-cut wooden #podocytes.

Photograph of 20 wooden podocytes (kidney cells) painted different shades of yellow-orange-red

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 21/07/2026

We're into the final 24 hours of Making With Biology Summer CELL-out, my Ready-to-Ship Shop! I just added my Jelly Picks - Sea Wasp guitar picks - six colours, each a different thickness :) One even glows in the dark!! Check them out - www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... 🐡🦑

Six guitar picks with similar Sea Wasp jellyfish design. Arranged on a black card with scribbly writing that says 'Deadly Tangle'. The guitar picks are blue, purple, pink, white, glow-in-the-dark, and black. Graph paper sits at the back.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/06/2026

I've been staring at ribbon structures for years and only just started drawing them. This is the beginning of a drawing of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in your blood. I wish I hadn't started on lined paper but already I think it's beautiful. #heart #bioart #sciart

Sketch of the ribbon structure of haemoglobin (hemoglobin). Coils and star-like spaces are emerging. Red biro on lined paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/06/2026

My favourite biro ran out during this drawing so I had to raid my son's pencil case, which turns out is full of pens he's found on the floor, and broken ones at that. Funny that teenage boys experience a higher than average incidence of exploding pens. #heart #sciart #bioart

Drawing of a human heart in blue and red biro, and watercolour. The walls of the right atrium and ventricle have been removed so that the openings can be seen inside.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/06/2026

After my ready-to-ship campaign it's straight into Super League of Science! I'm thinking #heart cells, molecules, tissues... 🫀🐡❤️

Teaching model of the human heart on a stand

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 11/05/2026

3 days left and not long until we unlock the third Fluorescent Keychain - the Mauve Stinger! This one will glow PINK under UV light! 🐡 🦑 Do you think we'll make it there? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) circular illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near the bell.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 08/05/2026

I've added Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings to Deadly Tangle! Find them alongside the Mauve Stinger Tangle Tee t-shirt and Crystal Jelly Fluorescent Keychain :) 🐡 🦑 Six days to go... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Front, back and side views of a pair of Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings. Turquoise or teal with water marks from watercolour and lines from coloured charcoal pencil colouring. Yellow blobs in chains down the backs of the thighs and running round the calfves are the zooids.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 30/04/2026

My last post of #invertefest, the original artwork for my Deadly Tangle project: a Sea Wasp or Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) 🐡 🦑 Pencil, felt-tip and Sharpie on paper. Take a look at my campaign if you haven't already, live for another 2 weeks www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Sea Wasp jellyfish with white tentacles and white 'deadly tangle' lettering in cursive. Purple and blue felt-tip pen pick out the 'detail' in the jellyfish body. The white of the jelly and lettering are the white of the paper - these are made in the negative space by black felt-tip, fine liner and marker pen (as each ran out!) around the components of the image and for the black background.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 30/04/2026

For the last day of #invertefest, a Jamaican field cricket or Silent cricket (Gryllus assimilis), ink on paper 🐡 Weird fact: I have this drawing as a tattoo 🤣

A silent cricket drawn with a scratchy style in black ink.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29/04/2026

An adult locust (Schistocerca gregaria), the desert locust bred as food for exotic pets in the UK (and elsewhere most likely) - from my days of working on an insect farm :) Watercolour and pencil on paper 🐡 #invertefest

An adult locust with pale brown and yellow legs, head and abdomen. Pale grey-blue wings with pencil detail.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29/04/2026

We now need *one more backer* to reach 50 backers and then all backers will receive a free sticker! The choice is between a Plumed Scorpionfish (Scorpaena grandicornis) and a Narrow-lined Pufferfish (Arothron manilensis). Which deadly fish would you choose? 🐡 🦑 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Left: A Plumed Scorpionfish, brown, orange and red. The fish has a round red eye and plumes above. It has venom-filled spikes.

Right: A Narrow-lined Pufferfish has been drawn with colours that indicate the amount of toxin in each part of the fish, with red being the highest, yellow the lowest, and green ‘not detected’.

Media for both: watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29/04/2026

For day 6 of #invertefest, a Japanese Sea Nettle (Chrysaora pacifica), from #invertober2025. A bit more of a sketchy style for this one - I was trying to be quick - but I remember getting really tangled up in those tangly tentacles! Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper 🐡 🦑

The bell of this Japanese Sea Nettle is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/04/2026

One of the newest additions to my jellyfish collection, Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei), in watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper 🐡 🦑 This is another jelly that flashes with blue bioluminescence to scare away predators - making it look even more like an alien spaceship! #invertefest

Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) like a knotted ball of orange string or perhaps a burning hot sun, with thin tentacles streaming off to the left. Against a very dark blue/brown ocean.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/04/2026

I reckon I have two more days' worth of jellies, then I'm going to do insects for the final day... For day 5 of #invertefest then, a Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper 🐡 🦑

A moon jellyfish; a blue oval with four white bubble-like structures within it, bobbing in a turquoise sea.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/04/2026

A Giant Siphonophore (Praya dubia), for #invertefest this evening 🐡 🦑 Watercolour, coloured charcoal pencil and paper collage - the paper collage parts are sherbet lemon sweets for the zooids!

A siphonophore in a heavily textured turquoise sea. A long tangly siphosome with yellow lozenge-shaped zooids along its length.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/04/2026

For day 4 of #invertefest, here is a Crystal Jelly (Aequorea victoria). Found off the west coast of North America, crystal jellies flash with blue (or greenish blue) bioluminescence to scare away predators 🐡 🦑 Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.

Crystal jelly looks like a crystal chandelier against a midnight blue sea.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/04/2026

Here's another jellyfish for #invertefest day 3, a Barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo), drawn with coloured charcoal pencil, gouache paint and black fineliner 🐡 🦑

A Barrel jellyfish, drawn horizontally with its hood or bell on the right, edged by a row of purple squares, and tentacles extending to the left. Blues above and greens below form the background of the drawing.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/04/2026

A good excuse to show you my Death Cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides)! 🐡 #repostyourart This mushroom is so deadly it's responsible for 90% of mushroom fatalities each year. Yet here's my blogpost about how it could be used as a cancer therapy www.kathryngarner.co.uk/blog/the-wor...

Five death cap mushrooms in a row are yellow-green on a backdrop of green, ochre, purple, pink and blue. A blue antibody is drawn in the top right referencing that the amanitin toxin from this deadly mushroom has been in clinically trials attached to an antibody. Watercolour, coloured charcoal pencil and biro on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/04/2026

Delighted to have contributed to The Art of #Invertefest alongside so many awesome artists! A fantastic way to discover new art + people! This is a Mauve Stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. This media combo has become quite a staple for me! 🐡🦑

Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near near the bell.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 25/04/2026

Somehow I missed the first day of #invertefest but here is a jelly for day 2! A Common Irukandji (Carukia barnesi). Mega deadly but barely the size of a fingernail !! 😅 Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper #sciart #marinelife

A Common Irukandji, almost transparent in its surroundings. Its bell has orange spots and its tentacles are long, seemingly tangled together and stripy. The overall colour of the ocean is metallic brown - the colour of rusty iron.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Which is your favourite Fluorescent Jellyfish Keychain design? I made a poll... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #sciart #illustration #jellyfish #invertefest #marinelife

Four circular fluorescent keychain designs, clockwise from top left: - Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) (blue)
- Green fluorescent protein (green)
- Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) (pink)
- Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) (orange)

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei), Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper #sciart #illustration #jellyfish #marinelife #addOcean

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 17/04/2026

Do you play the #guitar (or #mandolin!) or know someone who does? I'm crowdfunding a set of six Sea Wasp (Chironex fleckeri) guitar picks (along with other #jellyfish -inspired items!). Six colours, six different thicknesses. #marinelife #sciart #6music www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Six guitar picks with Sea Wasp designs, each a different thicknes and colour. Clockwise from top left: white 0.46mm, pink 0.65mm, purple 0.80mm, black 1.35mm, glow-in-the-dark 1.14mm, blue 1.0mm

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Only one week until we launch Beasts & Botanicals!! We're so proud to have brought together 19 fantastic creators through their love of wildlife 🌺🪻🐯🦎🦔🪼🦑🐡🐍🐀🐢🦜🦋🐳🏵️ www.backerkit.com/c/collection... #illustration @backerkit.com @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social

Beasts & Botanicals promo art by Jess aka Loadofolbobbins. When you back 2 or more projects you receive a free digital zine containing contributions from all of the campaigns. It contains fun facts, art, puzzles.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 15/04/2026

I'm bringing in my Moon jelly (Aurelia aurita) illustration into Deadly Tangle - as a Tangle Tee t-shirt design and as an Early Bird sticker. You might remember it from my blog a while back www.kathryngarner.co.uk/blog/jellyfi... #sciart #illustration #invertefest

A moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), a blue oval with white detail bobbing in a turquoise sea.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14/04/2026

A new jelly for a new project - this is a Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca)! 🪼🐡 Spolier alert: it's going to be a pink fluorescent keychain 😁 Follow along www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #invertefest #jellyfish

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13/04/2026

A little more and then I'm calling it! It's a siphonophore - I started it 18 months ago with the crazy idea to cut out pics of sherbet lemons for the yellow bits 🤣 No wonder I didn't finish it at the time but figured I could use it for Deadly Tangle - a t-shirt design I'm thinking 😁

A siphonophore in a heavily textured sea - watercolour, coloured charcoal pencil and paper collage. Stringy and tentacle-y!

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13/04/2026

I'm excited to be collaborating with @abistevensart.bsky.social for Beasts & Botanicals! Support us both and receive a free sticker from each of us. Mine is the deadly textile cone snail, which hunts its prey with a harpoon! Its shell is warped with the chemistry in its lethal toxins. #sciart

Made using pencil, watercolour and charcoal pencil on paper – a textile cone snail (Conus textile) with disulphide bond structures worked into the triangular pattern on its shell.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 12/04/2026

Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) is found off the west coast of North America and flashes blue to scare away predators. It's where green fluorescent protein (GFP) came from, used as a marker light in biotechnological research! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #sciart #biosky #invertefest

Four images in a square. Crystal jelly drawn in blue, shown as a fluorescent keyring, with (top left) and without (top right) UV light. The original drawing in watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil is bottom left. A drawing of green fluorescent protein as a ribbon structure is bottom right.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 11/04/2026

Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) printed onto blue fluorescent acrylic - a keychain that glows blue under UV light! My new project launches with Beasts & Botanicals group-collab in less than 12 days!! Follow here www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Drawing of Crystal jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) printed onto a blue fluorescent acrylic keychain glowing blue in UV light

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Fortunately I'm a very productive procrastinator. While I was avoiding ordering more pin samples, I had very long conversations with two people I've only said "hi" to in passing before, and I made this drawing of Aequorea victoria, crystal jelly 🐡🤣

Aequorea victoria (crystal jelly), looks like a crystal chandelier against a midnight blue sea. Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 05/02/2026

Second day of handing out my #Organoid and #OrganOnAChip stickers at WORD+2025 World Organoid Research Day in Cambridge! Part of me misses being in the lab but the other part thinks what I do now is way cooler 😎 #sciart #scicomm

The artist wearing a black top and purple cardigan. There is an Organoid and an Organ-On-A-Chip sticker on her top. White lanyard around her neck reads Hub Organoids.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 04/02/2026

What if a bacterium was as big as a castle? All the Engulfed Castle designs have been added as stickers. Check out the campaign www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #sciart #scicomm #illustration #artsky #painting #biosky #bacteria #mutants

4 Engulfed Castle designs (bacteria X castle hybrids):
Morax-kidw-ell-y (Moraxella catarrhalis X Kidwelly Castle)
S. ep-aydon-idis (Staphylococcus epidermidis X Aydon Castle)
S. tintag-enes (Streptococcus pyogenes X Tntagel Castle)
E. coli-narfon (Escherichia coli X Caenarfon Castle)

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 31/01/2026

And imagined what objects they might pick up along their way. I named these objects 'Erratics' like the boulders picked up and transported hundreds of miles by glaciers. #sciart #biosky #artsky #scicomm

Watercolour drawings of a medieval costume (a dress), an English Heritage guidebook, a Scottish sword and shield, and a white queen chess piece.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 31/01/2026

I gave them antibiotics to fight each other with! (Or for us to fight them more like!!!) #sciart #biosky #artsky #chemsky

Hand-drawn coloured structures of antibiotics: vancomycin, augmentin, mupirocin, and tetracycline

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 31/01/2026

I loved this idea, and I started thinking about bacteria as defensive organisms - which of course they are - like castles! I created the first Engulfed Castle designs. #sciart #biosky #artsky

Drawings of 4 different colonies of bacteria on a teal background. Each has one cell which looks more like an aerial view of a castle. The text gives hybrid, made-up names to the bacteria.

Text: Engulfed Castle Pins (title)

Morax-kidw-ell-y (Moraxella catarrhalis X Kidwelly Castle)
S. ep-aydon-idis (Staphylococcus epidermidis X Aydon Castle)
S. tintag-enes (Streptococcus pyogenes X Tntagel Castle)
E. coli-narfon (Escherichia coli X Caenarfon Castle)

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 31/01/2026

Not managed to check out my crazy bacteria vs castles #sciart project yet? Well let me tell you about it #biosky #artsky I like drawing #bacteria, but I wanted to add texture to make the drawing more EXCITING! So I added a map of the village I grew up in. This is a Mycoplasma. (We call her Mimi.)

Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 22/01/2026

It's official, the Crenelated Mutants are coming! Only a few hours until launch but it's not too late to click 'follow' for an exclusive pre-launch follower bonus (a Green Tent Sticker!) when you back the project. Bacteria & castles: what's not to love? 🐡 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 15/01/2026

Interesting or weird? I can't get out of my own head for these pin designs. This is moraxella catarrhalis X kidwelly castle. Also, whose idiotic idea was this 😭 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Diplococci bacteria Moraxella catarrhalis on a blood red background. Two cells, almost kidney-shaped, joined at their flatter sides. The texture in the right-hand cell resembles a castle, aerial view (Kidwelly Castle, Wales, UK).

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 30/12/2025

This was a fun one to draw! Bacterium or castle? 🐡 Just 2 more drawings and I'll be ready to start posting my RPG-style updates... Follow along here www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Plan of Clifford's Tower in York, UK. Thick grey walls like a four-leaf clover only with the individual leaves less well defined. 4 spiral staircases like curled millipedes in the walls. Walkways and staircases criss-cross through the tower.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/12/2025

Mycoplasma galli-tent-icum 🐡 Once a menace in poultry, now preys on wild campers in the Lake District 🤣 Mini-pin design, watercolour on paper Follow along www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... I just need to do some more castle pics then I will start RPG-style updates. Ah fun times 😂

Green lobed bacterial cell with fins like a heating grill along its edges. Inside are orange and brown shapes resembling an eye, a small tent and a sleeping bag.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 18/12/2025

For day 18 of #artadventcalendar, another kidney slice Kidney Slice + Cafetiere Plunger 🐡 Acrylic paint on paper, A2

Pale blue splodges are cell nuclei. Other brown splodges. Addition of part of the spring-like part of a cafetiere plunger neatly painted gives a focal structure the shape of a kidney or an ear.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 17/12/2025

Here we can play bacterium or castle? Day 17 of #artadventcalendar and I've spent the morning drawing, desperately trying to claw back control over December 🤣

Pencil and watercolour on paper. Blue sea around an island, on which is Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK. Lots of hatching / parallel lines indicate the island's steep, rocky slopes.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13/12/2025

Oh crikey, December's getting on top of me 😭, so skipping ahead to day 13 of #artadventcalendar, a Setaceous Hebrew Character moth on a background of plant cells 🐡 Watercolour and more Bic biro (green this time 🤣) on paper

Setaceous Hebrew Character moth on a background of plant cells as seen under a microscope. The cells are drawn with green biro and could be an aerial view of a city.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 11/12/2025

We were saying the sky was particularly fiery this morning! I don't think I've ever seen it so red! (I'm over near Hexham)

Sunrise the colour of hot red fire behind wintery trees and bushes.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 09/12/2025

This year I returned to the Cell Paintings that helped my leap from art to science. I made a new series of Kidney Slice paintings. So for day 9 of #artadventcalendar, Kidney Slice + Water Treatment Plant 🐡

Acrylic paint on paper, A2 size. Blue splodges (cell nuclei), burnt sienna and grey-brown against a pale blue background. Circles on the right are from an aerial view of water treatment plant.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 08/12/2025

Quite a different illustration for day 8 of #artadventcalendar. This piece was inspired by Clementine, the chess-playing mouse from Carlie Sorosiak's book 'Always, Clementine'. For my blogpost about people's perception of the use of animals in research 🐡 www.kathryngarner.co.uk/blog/always-...

Drawing of a mouse with pale brown fur. She is standing up on her hind legs holding the top of a white queen chess piece, which is angled towards her. Illustration executed in watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 07/12/2025

For day 7 of #artadventcalendar, some aggregates of cells called spheroids, used in research and drug development 🐡 Watercolour and black biro on paper

An illustration of approximately 13 spheroids, small floating aggregates of cells. Simple line drawings with watercolour in greyscale.

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