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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 23m

Had to postpone my trip to Brid because I had a docs appointment this morning which has been put back to tomorrow. I’ll travel over after that but at least it gives me an opportunity to post some of my spooky prints on here in the run up to Halloween! 👍🎃👍 Etsy link: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

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Halloween Spooky Season, Giclee Art Print, Pumpkin Ghosts Witch, Suburban Houses, American Street - Etsy UK

This Giclée Prints item is sold by NickTankard. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 01 Oct, 2026

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 37m

I’ve finally got around to producing brand new giclee prints of my Signalman illustration! I’ll post details here later on. Here’s a process/progress post from 2024.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 59m

New profile photo. Me and some tree buddies hanging out in a forest.

A tubby and bald middle aged bloke wearing black and a brown backpack. He (me) stands in a forest of pine or fir trees with long reddish brown trunks (the trees, not me). A path of red needles winds its way between green undergrowth. The tubby bloke (me) rests his hands on a walking stick as he smiles at the photographer. He’s (me) in a place of peace and happiness.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm feeling this way 😤🥺

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Richard H Fay — Artist, Photographer, and Poet @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 15h

Re-posting to boost the signal of this fantastic work! Gotta love spooky season art!

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine having to do this in the hope that those responsible will stop poring shit into our seas & rivers 🤯 Shame on those dirty greedy feckers who are doing this revolting act of environmental vandalism. Good on Clare & Co for trying to tackle it.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃 Brand new work to celebrate it being October! 🎃 ‘Halloween in the Suburbs’. Black pen and acrylic inks on off white paper. Unsigned Giclee Prints: £50 +P&P Signed Giclee Prints: £70 +P&P Illustration size: A4 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com 🎃👻

An illustration of a small old wooden house with a little porch. Its windows are illuminated by the light within. The house sits on a street in suburban America, it is Halloween. The neighbourhood is active with spooky goings on, ghosts in white sheets on the street and in the windows of the house, mummies amble about, glowing pumpkins on the sidewalk and porch. A black cat strolls in front of the house, a black crow sits on top of the little house. On the porch a little witch with her black dress, broom and crooked hat knocks on the door, trick or treating? Going to a party? Or an unwanted guest?
The illustration is done in black crosshatch pen on white paper, the pumpkins are orange with yellow glowing eyes in stark contrast to the black & white. Whimsical and celebratory…Halloween in the Suburbs!

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just a short time left to support Bonny's mythic, magical project. Please contribute if you can!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

£2,912 pledged of £2,995! So close, and just 24 hours to go...

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m off over to Bridlington to spend some time with Silly Sally & my stepdad. Time with them always rebalances me and my brain. I’ll try and post more of my prints & originals in the run up to Halloween 🎃👍 No doubt I’ll take the place of Skeletor here who is probably a deceased skeleton now.

A blonde Labrador on a sofa attacking her stuffed skeleton soft toy. Sally looks aggressive (she isn’t, she’s soft) but Skelly looks happy enough to be under attack.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beautiful painting by the British artist, John Shelley (1938-2020) which used to belong to Ray Bradbury.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bonnie's Kickstarter only has 48 hours to go - and she's so close! Please help get this lovely project off the ground... www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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MUSE

MUSE is a unique collection of art, stories and poetry inspired by myth.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On my exercise bike this morning & I’m working out to music by these chaps. Not at all fashionable but I love them. My partner who is unfamiliar with them asks who I’m playing “A Flock of Seagulls” I say…“A Plop of Seagulls”? If I were to form a tribute band it would be ‘A Plop of Seagulls’.

Four young men in the 1980’s. They are dressed as a band might in that period, suit tops, reds, black and a massive temptation to roll those sleeves up to their elbows. Three of the chaps have relatively normal hair but one of them has broken all the rules and social norms and plumped for something never seen before. His shining bright blonde hair looks like it is trying to evacuate his head, jutting up at angles to form follicular tusks while another strand has given up and flopped down over his face, it’s as if he’s never seen a mirror. This is the mighty ‘A Flock of Seagulls’.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃1st of October🎃 To celebrate I’m making giclee prints of this illustration ‘A Cat and a Crow’. Unsigned Giclee Print: £50 +P&P Signed Giclee Print: £70 +P&P Illustration size: A4 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com

An illustration of a dark old parlour room with a cozy fire burning in the fireplace. A cat strolls across an ornate rug in front of the fire while a crow sits on the arm of a large wingback chair. The fire illuminates the rug and chair but the rest of the room is in darkness. Black pen and printmaking ink on off white paper. Spooky and atmospheric.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve borrowed this exercise bike with a view to purchasing one. I’d like to lose a good bit of weight primarily for my own sake but also to shut ‘others’ from wanging on about it too. I’m looking forward to doing so & telling them to place their “advice” where the sun doesn’t shine. I thank you.

An exercise bike in my living room. Loads of ace books on the bookcase behind it.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Across the Causeway. Original handmade artwork. An unpublished Illustration made for The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill. Image size: A4 £130 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller illustration on off white paper. Areas of dark and light and grey to describe a damp and gloomy landscape of a causeway across an estuary. Two people sit on a wooden cart with two large wooden wheels, the cart is pulled by an old horse. The track is wet and pitted with muddy cart tracks and seaweed. They make their way towards a large Victorian house which is situated on a small island at the end of the causeway. The house looks dark and forbidding, it’s not inviting like say…Centreparks, I don’t think it has a fun water slide out the back. Rays of sunlight illuminates the roof of the house and reflect on the damp track, the sky is heavy with chunky clouds.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Across the Causeway. Original handmade artwork. An unpublished Illustration made for The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill. Image size: A4 £130 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I made this copy of an illustration from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak as a gift for my therapist a couple of years back. I miss talking to her sometimes 😔 Anyhow, I made this particular illustration for her because it echoed one of her bits of advice “chuck it in the fuck it bucket!”

An acrylic and pen copy of an illustration by Maurice Sendak in Where The Wild Things Are. A little boy in a white onesie and golden crown upon his head hangs by his arms from the branch of a tree. Three ‘Wild Things’ do likewise. The Wild Things are an odd mix of creatures, they look like they’re put together from an assortment of animals…bull, duck, birds.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crikey, look at the drawing skills here! 🤩

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t usually watch much TV but I just want to switch my brain off tonight 😵‍💫

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like Jamie Oliver has burned some toast in ‘his’ kitchen.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michael Palin is on the TV tonight, he’ll make me feel better about the world.

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Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a quick love note to all the artists out there feeling like their work doesn’t “fit right” into all the little boxes. I love y’all. I love that you tore through the walls to create something that is *you*. Because that’s all that matters. Human creation. 🫀✨

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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Life drawing

Image of a pencil drawing of a female life model. She is kneeling on the floor, with one leg up. She has long hair.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Railway workers report the signal box at Lugford as haunted. Talk of a constant presence, of being scrutinised as they work. Talk of objects being moved, levers being pulled. Odd voices down the line. A place not haunted by dread, but by unwelcome intrusion. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 28/09/2026

Still one of my favourite dragons. A wood dragon from Strangehollow, a book you will find in my shop here: buff.ly/kor46L0 #dragon #dragonart #greendragon #wooddragon #bestiary

watercolour - the head and neck of a green dragon covered in antler/horn like growths all around its head and neck. Its nose is pink and its eyes are shiny and black and it has a benign expression.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

America scares me (certain people do anyway) but I’d still love to travel it and make some work from what I see and experience. It’s always held a fascination for me. Please purchase things from me nicktankard.co.uk to help me do a bit of wandering 🙏🏻

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NICK TANKARD ILLUSTRATION

Nick Tankard is a Yorkshire based illustrator working from his studio in Saltaire, specialising in fine line pen illustrations in a cross-hatch style.

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hark! To mark the start next week of Nunkie's autumn season of supernatural tales, until Thursday you can get a copy of "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James" for £12.50. That's a scarcely believable £5 discount. Email me for details of how to pay: address here www.nunkie.co.uk/contact

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To all the people saying: "How can I find time to read to my kid when I have a high-powered full-time job?" I taught high school full time; marked A-level exam papers in my spare time; wrote a bestseller in 4 months and still found time to read to my kid every night. I did give up dusting, though.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crikey O'Riley, Twisted Pike is out on Thursday! www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

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Twisted Pike by David Barnett | Canelo

Paperback and Ebook

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

😯 A glorious mash-up of time and place. I had to blink twice when I first saw this – a real-life Hobbit house tucked into the ruined west front of the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury St Edmunds. Heading back soon..

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I sometimes wonder why your own weight is somehow other peoples business? 🤔

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Jennifer Dionisio @jenniferdionisio.com · 27/09/2026

New poster art for the Festival at Screenings Funchal in Madeira, Portugal. This year's program is 5 weeks of David Lynch, so naturally I jumped at the chance to draw Laura Palmer in the gut punch of a film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Poster art for the Festival at Screenings Funchal, starting October 2026. Artwork portrait by Jennifer Dionisio of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FB / IG: The Little Northern Productions @thedugpa.bsky.social #JuleeCruise

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just sent to me. I have never seen this picture before. #TwinPeaks #FireWalkWithMe #BehindtheScenes

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m going to see the Tove Jansson exhibition at the House of Illustration in November✊🥳✊ I haven’t been to the new Quentin Blake - Centre For Illustration yet, I can’t wait!

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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need to learn how to grieve again as well as our relationship w death. Our ableism is locked in our fear of death.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some pen sketches I made of Vincent Price for a project that is still ticking over in my head 🤔 Get out of my head & onto the ruddy paper, I command you!

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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning - I hope you slept like a clam-stuffed puffer-fish - I'm starting with Simon Palmer's captivating 'Low Thorpe', available as a greetings card or print. Have a magnificent Sunday! www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/simo... #simonpalmer #simonpalmerart

A watercolour by Simon Palmer - a view down a quiet lane - trees form a tunnel, autumn colours abound.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"There's terrible evil in the world. It comes from men... Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals." —Watership Down, Richard Adams #BookWormSat

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last roses of summer from Columbia Road market this morning

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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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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching ‘Withnail & I’, a favourite when I was a student. The poverty, the hopelessness. I’m alarmed to realise that nothing much has changed since those days, I can’t even afford to go on holiday “by mistake”.

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