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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 8h

Back in the studio getting inky with folkloric cryptozoology.

An angry mammal linocut illustration in light blue and dark brown inks.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 10h

We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Instagram is a big ol’ pile of shit these days but this particular illustration works so much better with some old school Dillinja… www.instagram.com/p/Dd3za1BDbY5/

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XeaglepissX @xeaglepissx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know bsky mainly covers yoghurt weaving and acoustic guitars so this may fall on deaf ears but how fucking good is this man city debacle? What a joy to behold. It's better than actual football. Inject it in to my veins. Scorch the earth these people walk on

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas Day which marks the day in the calendar after which you shouldn’t pick or eat blackberries. Depending on your regional bent, folklore tells that on this day the devil fell out of heaven and landed in a blackberry bush, cursing them in fury…

A linocut illustration of some blackberries in the foreground, the devil running away in the middle distance and the moon behind.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something like; I Know Where I’m Going (1945) The Wicker Man (1973) Aftersun (2022) Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) Nuts in May (1976)

A selection of the Time Out list of 100 Best British Fins reordered according to my Letterboxd ratings.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jarvis playing Eddie Grant’s proto acid house track ‘Time Warp’ on 6 Music is a thrill. Think @wrongtom.bsky.social put me onto it about twenty years ago. It’s a belter.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another linocut Mummer! Not going to lie ‘Ride Your Pony’ by Lee Dorsey was not the inspiration for this dance but that particular song - you know the one - isn’t on Instagram. Small mercies…

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This morning; Slint. It’s pretty good. #nowplaying

‘Spiderland’ by Slint released on Touch and Go Records in 1991.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘The Great God Pan’ linocut illustration from my series #folkhorroralphabet and inspired by the novel by Welsh author Arthur Machen.

Reworked linocut illustration of a faun like woman with digital colour and a woodland backdrop. Underneath reads the quote from the novel ‘The Great God Pan’; “You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.”

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘The Great God Pan’ linocut illustration from my series #folkhorroralphabet and inspired by the novel by Welsh author Arthur Machen.

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Jonathon Humphreys @godsteeth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here it is moving. I'm used to this place crushing videos, so sorry in advance if that happens here. In the process of setting up a new website that can host all the animation stuff.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This morning; Maddy Prior and June Tabor. #nowplaying

‘Silly Sisters’ album by Maddy Prior and June Tabor.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve!

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This afternoon; ‘Coffee Table Music’ compilation. If you know, you know. #nowplaying

‘Coffee Table Music’ compilation compiled by Grantby for Cup of Tea Records (1998).

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Birthday beats for Nick Cave. This is an illustrated reduction linocut portrait I made a few years ago. I’d just finished the linocut series #alphabetofmusicians and did a couple of extra favourites to accompany the set.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The dawn chorus is so sweet in April but by late September it’s just six drunk rooks arguing in a dead tree.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Cardiff City….? Cardiff shitty more like…” I have died of old age on the train.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On the train and the man in front of me has just eaten an entire pack of wafer thin reconstituted honey roast ham and - my God - that must be a cry for help.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Combining my love of folklore and stupid dances here are some linocut mummers. Mummers were (are) cavorting masked performers in folk play or mime often demanding food or booze for their efforts… matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/mumm...

A Mummer Morris dancing linocut frog doing that odd shoulder shuffle dance not unlike that kid dancing in the Snoopy/Peanuts animated short.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I may as well sneak in with a Friday Shop Plug. Spooky lino prints! Old favourites 'Queen of the Field' and 'Dost Thou See a Book Before Thee?' are now back in stock! And on the gilded book front I have a goat and a Mari... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Spooky lino prints! Old favourites 'Queen of the Field' and 'Dost Thou See a Book Before Thee?' are now back in stock.

Pen drawing of a goat with gilded flames.

Pen drawing of a Mari Lwyd with gilded flames.

Two lino prints and a Tales Accursed a Folk Horror Anthology.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This morning; Jimmy Smith. #nowplaying Potentially to be culled.

‘Peter and the Wolf’ by The Incredible Jimmy Smith released in 1966.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve not read a better book this year.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?

A scene from Superman (1978) when Jonathan Kent played by Glenn Ford has a heart attack and dies.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A work in progress linocut reduction print on the theme of ‘Unusual Mammals’ for a PRINT SOCIAL project. I’ve drawn on Irish folklore/cryptozoology for this one. Without wishing to make clumsy assumptions I’m confident the brilliant illustrator @ciaraioch.bsky.social will know the story.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This afternoon; Val Stöecklein. Sad sack introspective singer songwriter album from 1969 for less than the price of a pint*. *paid £8.09 for a pint in London this weekend.

Val Stöecklein’s album ‘Grey Life’ released on Dot Records in 1969.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Blimey! I’m in Peckham! I’m here for the Libby Bove Way of the Roadwytch exhibition in Staffordshire St. Do yourself a favour & go&see some outstanding art, craft & photography. @libbybovearts.bsky.social is an amazing artist The @lunatraktors.bsky.social will also be there on Sun. Unmissable !

The poster for THE WAY OF THE
ROADWYTCH
LIBBY BOVE
11 SEPTEMBER - 4 OCTOBER 2026
A strange hooden horse figure featuring oil cans & funnels

A detail of charms and talismans from one of the Roadwytch costumes.

A photograph of a Roadwytch with a hooden horse standing in front of a DERV pump

A Roadwytch ceramic mask from the exhibition.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's a bit of a Friday Shop Plug: 👁️ Haunted lino prints and defaced books! 👁️ Every order placed between now and Sunday night will receive a free A5 Vinegar Tom printed on luxury laid card! 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Two haunted lino prints along with a 'V is for Vinegar Tom' art card.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Carving the second layer which is my favourite part of the process because I can hone in on the details and the illustration becomes less abstract.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Inadvertently stumbled on a cinematic subgenre of oddball subversive free-wheeling 80s rom com/thrillers and now I don't want to watch anything else. Taking recommendations (After Hours sort of works too although less rom).

'Something Wild', 'Miracle Mile', 'Flipside' and 'Hundreds of Beavers'.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Small child in my studio saw this and shouted ‘DADDY!’.

A linocut illustration of Krampus printed on a ceramic star.

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My Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Max Ernst, 1949. "Flying fish with human skull" #collage #1940s #MaxErnst

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

This morning; The Feelies. #nowplaying I watched ‘Something Wild’ last night so this is compulsory listening today.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh god. This post will clearly, inexorably lead me to buying an overpriced copy of Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, discovering that it is in fact shit, so destroying another central, if rotten, plank of my youth. Still, too tempting to become a RETVRN guy for this boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31...

The box cover art to Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, a pith helmeted Victorian type looks like he’s about to get his shit wrecked by a t-Rex type lad

Close up pic of a boggle eyed plastic dinosaur from Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs

A gaggle of boggle eyed plastic dinosaurs, anyone know the correct collective noun?

An aerial shot of the Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs game board in play

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” Linocut illustration inspired by Alan Garner’s novel ‘The Owl Service’ with digital colour.

Linocut illustration inspired by Alan Garner’s novel ‘The Owl Service’ with digital colour. The illustration features a young woman with her hands covering her eyes, the palms of her hands feature owl eyes. The background is a photograph of some woods and a stream in the UK.

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