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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The only things this ridiculous Clacton by-election farce have confirmed: 1) Farage is wholly unfit for public office, given his willingness to abuse it 2) Farage is corrupt 3) Farage is an attention-seeking, charmless, lying dickhead 4) Clacton has let us all down. Again. That’s it.

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Stephen Lowe Watson @stephenlowewatson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Weeks of delays so Greggs can build a drive-thru. If climate protestors stopped the A27 for an hour, there'd be arrests and imprisonments and accusations about ambulances not getting through.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My latest work, a preparatory sketch, featuring venerable sweet chestnuts, inspired by a childhood visit to them with a favourite uncle who told me the hollow trunks were used by smugglers to hide contraband, The romance and excitement those tales caused! Working toward a new engraving.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A rare defeat for Putin in Western politics tonight. I suppose he can console himself with thoughts of Farage’s projected success next month.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A good time to read this excellent @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social piece on why an Orban loss would be (IS!) so important

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Good time to re-up this 🎉

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

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Penguin On A Bike @blueforestpenguin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937)

Silvertone close-up photograph of a Maile’s Quince flower with a blurred background outdoor setting. Location: Salt Lake City, UT.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My Gallery is open today at 11am. A show celebrating this years student work from the Winter Wood Engraving Workshops run here at my studio. It really feels like a vintage year there is some amazing work. Open 11 to 5 Fri and Sat. BN8 6QA. I hope you can make it along.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have an Open Studio this Friday and Saturday (11 to 5) celebrating the end of this year's Winter Wood Engraving Workshops - with an exhibition of my students work And we'll be throwing a party on Friday evening 7 'til 9.30 - with live music from the amazing @agatha.comfort

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My elm torso 'Archer' has been included in AppArts Easter Exhibition It opens this Saturday and is open to the 18th April (10am - 4pm) You'll find the sculpture trail and an incredible collection of art exhibited at King Edwards School, Petworth Road, Surrey. GU8 5SG.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Another winter of my wood engraving Workshops is almost over. We're putting together a show of work completed since last November. Please come and join us - the wine will be flowing on the Friday evening if you'd care to join us. At my Studio; Village Works, East Hoathly, BN6 6DS, 10th & 11th April

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ha! I hope you enjoy the print.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A huge thanks to both @arteliumwine and everone who visited the Art Fair on Saturday, is was great to meet so many people there. Here's that Barn Owl I was demonstrating, I did get quite a way into it!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You can book your complimentary ticket via Artelium's web site, doors open 10am, see you there (unless you're going to join @millionwomenrise.bsky.social in London tomorrow, good luck and have great day if you are).

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Very busy here at the workshop, with lots on. Also getting ready for Artelium Vineyard Art Fayre tomorrow. Drawn up this block so I've got something to demonstrate.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

In tribute I share, for the first time my band new print 'Enchanted Place'. Low winter sun shines on a small bubbling stream on the Ashdown Forest. Thank you for the all the recent interest in the print- it will be available soon, I promise!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What wonderful news to wake up to this morning - Thank you Gorton and Denton, I feel the sun has peeped into our divided country which seemed destined to slide into hate and division. I now dare to hope.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Just like that we're 2 months into the year - the nights are definitely drawing out and my cherished spring bank at home is really beginning to get into it's stride. And my first Art Fair is almost upon us. I will be appearing at the wonderfully supportive Artelium Vineyard I hope to see you there!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

You're very kind, thank you (I'm not sure I'm that patient though!)

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I think 'Enchanted Place' is finally done - after an afternoon of proofing and tweaks. Winter light finds a bubbling stream hidden in a ghyll that bisects the heathland of the Ashdown Forest. I'd love to hear your thought to this new wood engraving.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's been a while but my latest block is finally ready for a proof.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Goddess of Victory, Nike, my bonfire sculpture for this years East Hoathly's Carnival. This stunning photo of the bonfire is by Jim Holden. She burns tomorrow, the culmination of our evening at around 10pm. Roads shut to the village at 5pm, so get here then if you'd like to watch it burn.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Water Wheel' a sculptural commission I've been working on over the last couple of weeks. In a garden criss crossed by streams and contains a working water mill with the da Vinci quote "water is the driving force of all nature" hand lettered into the flowing water that runs over the wheel.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thank you Phil, you're very kind, I am sorry I am not more conveniently placed in the world!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

'Home on a golden tide' - wood engraving. Thank you so much for all the interest shown in my new print. Now available on my web shop (link in my bio), or your welcome to pop into my workshop and say hello to pick up yours. www.keithapettit.com/online-store...

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A crazily long and stressful day yesterday - but we've now made good progress on the bonfire sculpture. One more weekend to complete it.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Today the bonfire sculpture finally starts to take shape.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

'Home on a golden tide' - wood engraving. From Pencil sketch, through the conti crayon development, the engraved block and finished print. Available now via my web shop: share.google/RhlZoMZfmqhN... If you hurry there's a nearly 40% discount.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I think my latest engraving is done! Not sure when I'm going to have time to take a test print, but I'll share it as soon as I can. I'd love to hear both your thoughts on it, and on an idea for a title!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A little sneak preview of one of the componants of this years bonfire sculpture - the bust of Nike, finished last night. We'll be lifting it into place Saturday morning.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Fancy joining me next to the warmth of my workshop stove? My wood engraving workshops (for both beginners and intermediateries) begin in mid November - sign up via my web shop and I'll save you a place! Teaching and Classes share.google/kilSlR9y004c...

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The latest progress on cirrent wood engraving, a summer washed field of ripening oats - it starts to feel a longtime ago now!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Some good progress on my latest wood engraving

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Finally ready to begin my new engraving - here's prepetary pencil sketch, an ink and conti crayon development and the block drawn and ready to start. With thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social for the inspiration.

A path cuts across a nearly ripe field of oats. It curls around an oak tree in the middle distance, toward a patchwork of fields on a hill. The bright summers day is threatened by building clouds.
The same scene is first seen as a pencil sketch, a crayon and ink sketch and lastly the same design is drawn directly onto a block of wood.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you'd like to get involved with the project to re-launch Victor's Vine Press - click the link for more news and ways to get involved: www.kickstarter.com/projects/old...

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Coming soon: Lost occult books of the 1920s: relaunching Vine Press

Publishing never-before-seen books by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg and officially relaunching his 1920s Vine Press.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Printing Victor. After a day of taking proof prints and tweaking the engraving, we have finally arrived at the finished print - the first sketches that attempted to capture his likeness begun in mid July and this finished print was taken at the end of September - quite an epic!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Once the block was drawn up the engraving began. The concept was to place him surrounded by icons that represents him; his cottage in Steyning, nearby Chanctonbury Ring, Dyonisi and Pan his twin stars in his pursuit of the occult. The block was engraved over a period of just over two weeks.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Once I had finished the composition of the piece I sized and traced the sketch onto the wood block. Dionysis is seen with an unravelling a scroll with one of Vickbirds most beloved poems on it 'Downwood'. I've based the lettering the the font Victor used in all of the Vine Press books.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Alongside the work on the composition of Victor, all the details that will sit around him needed study too, Dionysis on further research is more often clean shaven, fluetests fingers are tricky and a sketch of Vine Cottage in Steyning where he and his wife Kathleen Goddard set up Vine Press.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Placing Victor. Once I captured his image, I started to focus on the composition of of the finished engraving.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In pursuit of Victor. My first challenge in creating a portrait of Victor Nueberg, was I only had 6 (rather sketchy) photos (and most he was pulling a face,thanks Vicky) to capture his likeness. Starting in mid July, I obsessively drew him for a month before I got something I had confidence in!

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My Conti Crayon portrait of Victor Nueberg (1883-1940), poet, publisher and occultist. Friend of Peter Warlock, a sometime associate and lover of Aleister Crowley and first time publisher of Dylan Thomas. I've been in almost constant company of him since July creating a wood engraved portrait of him

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It's the last weekend of Atwave Festival . I really hope you can make it along to 'This land of ours'. Hamsey Church is such an striking environment to experience my sculpture and bids will still be accepted in our silent auctions until mid day on Sunday too. We'll both be there 11 til 5.

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Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

A huge thank you to all our many visitors that braved the weather and road closures over our second Artwave Festival weekend at Hamsey Church. I was there again this morning, and was treated to a beautiful light show in the Chancel. Come and see it youself this weekend 11 to 5 Sat and Sun.

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