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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

🖼️ Autumn Afternoon, Thomas Little.

A painting of an autumn forest scene; features tall, slender trees, including a prominent white-barked birch tree in the foreground. The trees are covered in yellow and golden leaves. Sunlight filters through the canopy, illuminating the scene. A small red fox is shown walking through a clearing on the forest floor, which is covered in what appears to be white flowers and fallen leaves.

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'The owl’s head... was made separately and does not directly attach to the backing. Instead, a small copper rod extends from the head into the bird’s body. This would have permitted the head to rotate from side to side when the object was moved.' #OwlishMonday

gilded and silvered copper disk, featuring a nearly three-dimensional owl at it center, Shades of verdigris and and greeny-goldy-silver

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noya (ノヤ) @no8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

何でもないことを共有できる誰かがいる日常は、きっと幸せ

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably my favourite #StFrancis window, by Edward Payne at Didbrook, #Gloucestershire, 1962, showing the saint preaching to a parliament of birds. Lots of loving detail of bird life, including a handsome #OwlishMonday for tomorrow! #StainedGlassSunday

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🖼️ Tawny Owl, Harriet Bane. #OwlishMonday

Tawny owl perched in autumn leafed tree, blue background, painting.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#OwlishMonday Not your usual classic owl but a charming contemporary perspective from Hiromi Nishizaka.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Red Cedar Emily Carr 1931

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Mandy Tsung

Boat punted on dark river of autumn leaves between trees, illustration.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

thank you very much @bobfry.bsky.social and @deblr.bsky.social for fervently encouraging me to go to the Libby Bove exhibition. Wonderful. (Also: left it until the last day, and I am so glad I went...)

costume/gear of a Roadside Wytch as well as a photograph of a person wearing the overalls and headgear.

a vitrine filled with a multitude roadside charms. It's a thing,

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'The Fox and the Magpie' - one of the lost animal fables by LaFontaine #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay

sitting fox on the left facing towards the right, a magpie in the right hand corner facing forward. in the background undulating branches from a huge larch (I think), Kew Gardens

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Autumnal textures, Kew Gardens #FossilFriday 🌿🌗🍂

ginkgo leaf, green with droplets of water pearling off it. Ginkgo leaf lying on the ground next to some dried and shrivelled up brown leaves, on top of dried grasses.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Quixote's Giants, Study 2, Campo de Criptana, La Mancha, Spain Michael Kenna, 1996 www.jacksonfineart.com/artists/mich...

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #BirdWhisperer Day! Kept it simple this time around as my patience seems to have left the building 😂

Digital drawing of a black woodpecker. It is a largish-medium bird clinging to the side of a gray tree and has a long cream-colored bill, iridescent black feathers that are shining light blue where the light hits, and a tiny bit of red just along the back of its head.

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 28/09/2026

Reflections of sky

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Marilyn Owl' Homage to Andy Warhol and all owls #OwlishMonday 🤍

Four squares featuring the same portrait of a barn owl looking out at the viewer in different colour combinations. Top left: purple on yellow orange. Top right: red on light blue. Bottom left: pink on light blue-turquoise. Bottom right: dark green on light pink. Linocut, Maria Strutz

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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hieronymus Bosch’s owls. #owlishmonday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

“When it draws near to witching time of night” (Robert Blair) 🎨 Holls Walck #owlishmonday

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s almost time for Guild Eleven’s tiny drawing event we call “Mysterium”! Check out the tiny flyer below for info. Draw with us and have a hauntingly good time!

A flyer for a drawing event in October. Here are the prompts! October 8th will be Autumnal Arbor. October
15th will be Creature Comforts. October 22 will be Potions and Pastries.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Junipers, Lake Tenaya Sierra Nevada Edward Weston, 1940

old and twisted trees in front of a lake and hills

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A constant recommendation.

J is for …
Jansson
One of my favourite imagined places to inhabit as unhappy
child was Moominvalley. I am still an unofficial ambassador
for it, telling young writers I mentor that they will struggle
to find a better constructed fictional world. I push those
writers into reading Tove Jansson because she makes
words dance, because she makes locations shimmer with
a sense of nature holding within it the not-quite-real that
may manifest at any moment. I push because she is one
of the finest storytellers, because her imagination still
pushes me. I hope that is all in Hookland, as no book ever
taught me more about the power of dark absence in a text
than Moominvalley In November. While the Moomins may
sometimes overshadow Jansson’s stunning lines as illus
trator, the sheer fairytale menace of her early paintings,
they cannot obscure her power to create spaces where the
mind may walk in hope of wonder

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

Road to Castel Gandolfo André Derain, 1921

Post-impressionist landscape showing a rustic, sunlit dirt road shaded by heavy, twisting trees with deep green and brown tones.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

Free shipping today only* at my inprint shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/whis... *looks like today only but inprint is always kind of mysterious with their sales 😅

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Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lovely piece - "Finding My Kula Devata in Kerala - My Ancestors' Forgotten Goddess". www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPa6...

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Finding My Kula Devata in Kerala - My Ancestors' Forgotten Goddess

YouTube video by Vidya Warrier

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even inland, the salt-hag is tide-pulled. Gulls call her to come to shore and see the wave-polished augeries on display. Sea-seasoned winds make promises of things to be summoned at the slack. She walks to her secret cove. Her first glimpse of sea an intoxication. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric) For @mariastrutz.bsky.social

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Herr Ackerbau @herrackerbau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

John Andreas Savio (1902-1938), Gumpe guoktas (Ulvepar)/ Wolf couple

Woodcut of two wolves standing at a mountain plateau

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Herr Ackerbau @herrackerbau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

John Andreas Savio (1902-1938), Gammelguden/ The old god

Woodcut of a man kneeling before a stone idol on a mountain

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We go to the woods to have our souls entangled. We go to the woods in hope of encountering wonder, wild magics. Some deep, cave-old part of us knows it as a sacred space just a we know it as a place of possible peril. The woods whisper to our souls. – #CLNolan #Woods

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will be away for a little while, travelling back home for a few weeks. In the meantime, have a comet fox (the brown of the fox is rosehip ink) See you in a few weeks 🦊🌿🌠

a standing fox facing the viewer surrounded b blossoms and stars, a planet wih a ring around it, a crescent moon. On her chest a heart with a planetary ring around it. Linedrawing etching, handcoloured in watercolour and rosehip ink, shades of light pink, white, brown, blue and yellow. Maria Strutz

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Magnolia Wheel constructed of magnolia seedpods with a white anemone at the centre 🤍🌀🌿 #MondayMandala

a mandala laid out in three concentric circles with magnolia seedpods facing outwards. A white Japanese anemone flower at the centre of the mandala.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

For #Devon, #Dartmoor, #WestCountry friends: here's the autumn schedule for Celebrating the Earth, our long-running series of nature-focused events in Chagford. These events are live (not online), free, and all are welcome. Art by Alan Lee.

The poster art for Celebrating the Earth's series of art-and-nature events, which take place live in Chagford, a market town on Dartmoor (Devon, UK). The image is a picture of Chagford's medieval church gone wild, created by book artist Alan Lee. More information on the events can be found in the next post in this thread.

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mark156.bsky.social @mark156.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From up high we grow then gently drift back below still managing to sparkle at rest,nature's way🍂

A brown fallen lobed leaf bejewelled with rain droplets amongst the green leaves and rain dropped grass of the woodland path.oak.

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Gator mothers embody fierce swamp devotion. From guarding nests to aiding hatchlings, exceptional moms protect their young for up to 3 years - often sheltering multiple generations at once. Even when pushed out at 3ft, young stay close, shielded by mom’s fierce presence. #SwampLifeSunday

A mother alligator, fitted with a research monitor on its neck for an Okefenokee swamp tracking study, charges through lily pads with mouth wide open, violently splashing water in fierce defense of her territory.

SOURCE: UGA Ecology Lab

A quiet swamp alcove with mossy cypress knees, where several young alligators representing multiple generations bask together on a fallen log and rest in the shallow blackwater beneath. Their mother rests in the water nearby!

SOURCE: UGA Ecology Lab

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There are moments when time becomes uncertainty. It could be now, it could be two centuries back or more. Moments when we walk a landscape that feels more constant and reliable than the chaos of our own lives. How can I not feel this as an enfolding of ghosts? – #DAKilroy

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

"Currently, my soul is iron-grey and sad bats circle the bell-tower of my dreams." (Claude Debussy) 🎨 Friedrich Specht #BookwormSat #InternationalBatNight #baturday

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Resharing an old favorite for a belated #NationalDogDay 🐶

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

GLORIOUS GRAVEYARD BATS Long associated with dusky graveyards & liminal spaces between night & day #bats have inspired gloriously dark symbols in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Images J. Rydell #InternationalBatNight

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

‘Slowly the night is falling, Falling down from the hill, And all in the low green valley The dew lies heavy and chill; The crickets cry in the hedges, The bats are circling low, And like ghosts through the blossoming garden The glimmering night-moths go...’ ~ Anon., My Angel, 1800s. #BookWormSat

Bats in flight in scene over water? with reeds and flowers at either side, painting.

🖼️ Antonio de La Gandara, c.1895.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'Fox Moon' In celebration of today's lunar eclipse #FoxMoon #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay 🦊🌿🌔

fox running from right to left. a full moon with two crescent moons on either side. The fox has several tails streaming behind them, some take on the shape of the crescent waxing moon on the right, some of the tails could also be ears of corn. Linocut, feathery orange red, white and black, Maria Strutz

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Almost there..

The waxing Moon appears against a black sky, with numerous dark lunar maria and craters visible across its surface.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Hum summoned us to walk below it. Across fields, through woods. Under roads where traffic's static growl never ceased. Every transmission tower a temple. Every pylon tattooing its place on the electric ley of the land onto our very being. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person

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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you're drawn to uncanny phenomena like this, you might enjoy very old folk songs with added analogue synth basslines and body percussion... Norwich this Saturday www.tickettailor.com/events/norwi... Sheffield Friday 4th wegottickets.com/f/17710/ Brighton Wednesday 9th wegottickets.com/f/24793/

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An evening with Lunatraktors at Cafe No9

‘A clap of thunder over the lukewarm waters of contemporary folk.’ (Télérama, France). Lunatraktors are choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and vocalist and researcher Clair Le ...

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Away into the infinite Wander far, Yayoi

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The avatars of the Queen of Owls are many. They wink from tapestries as they look upon woven lovers; stare the saints from corners of stained glass. The observe us at the vulnerability of prayer, look down from pubs. Her watch upon the world is constant. She knows us. – #CLNolan

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

V2 a ghost print is the second print pulled from a block without re-inking. OR if the image you have printed is over-saturated with ink you can take a print from this paper and will end up with a mirror image of the initial print. These are composite prints of two blocks ghost- printed separately

a faint hovering tawny owl with outstretched wings facing towards the right, in the background a big oaktree. Shades of bluegreen and dark brownblack. Woodcut ghost print, version 2 Maria Strutz

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I tried to revisit the 'Spirit of the Woods' ghost print I posted a few weeks ago, and attempted a 'calculated ghost print' for both layers of the print. However as might be expected - you can't recreate a ghost print... Here is one of the attempts #OwlishMonday 1/2

a hovering tawny owl with outstretched wings facing towards the left, in the background a big oaktree. Shades of bluegreen and faint brownblack. Woodcut ghost print, Maria Strutz

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

'Snow' - Yamada Kiyoharu, 1986. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

A black owl in a blue background with a small owl with snowy background on its torso.

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