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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honoured that my pastel drawing of orphaned swifts will be on display in the Society of Wildlife Artists show from this week at the Mall Galleries in London. 🌱 Please check out the show if in/around London between 1st - 10th October! #societyofwildlifeartists #commonswift #neocolor2 #mallgalleries

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A polychaete worm, soaring like an eastern dragon

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My online shop is open this week! Signed prints, art books and some originals available. Thank you! ✨🌱 niqvassieshop.bigcartel.com

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Oh, to be enjoying the warm waters of the WIS. #SciArt #artbyjulio

A top down view of shallow, clear and cyan-tinted water with some dark rocks along the seafloor. Three Hesperornis, aquatic birds, are in the water, one floating on the surface and two others submerged, moving towards a school of fish. A mostly white Geosternbergia, a pterosaur, flies overhead looking down.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Some of the little drawings for sale at this weekend's National Meadows Day event at Aughton church near York. Featuring studies of wildlife recently observed around the @ldvnnr.bsky.social ☺️🌱

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For those in/around Yorkshire, I'll have some books, originals and prints at this event! Come say hello and see some lovely moths, birds and meadows 🌼

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sleeping on the dining chair as everyone else gets ready for bed.

Coloured pencil drawing of a black cat curled up on large red and orange cushions which are piled on top of a wooden chair with armrests. The light from a nearby ceiling lamp is casting a shadow across her lower half and illuminating her head, shoulders and knee making her fur shine in rich colourful brown.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

a little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by. I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoyed taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.

Watercolour and pencil illustration of a microscopic dragon sitting on a plant root. It's body is transparent and it has two rounded wings covered in beating cilia hairs. It has a long neck and blunt snout with long whiskers. Inside its neck, large jaws are visible and it has tiny black eyes.

The dragon has large claws on its feet, like a water bear, and a long segmented tail hangs down and splitting into a fork at the end. From the root, golden diatoms are growing, and sun animalcules creep along it as a group of rotifers swims past.

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LDV_NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Ravens have become more and more regular around the #LDV in recent years, but it was notable to record two at Wheldrake and two at Melbourne/Thornton Ings over weekend - thanks to @niqvassie.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork ✏️

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

been caring for some little silkworms for a friend - they're all cocooned up now.

coloured pastel drawing in blues and oranges of a silkworm curled to one side spinning a thread of silk from it's mouth.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My online shop is open until April 28th if anyone wanted to order a copy of my little artbook about the Lower Derwent Valley NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social 🌱 Option to have an original pencil drawing on the front page 🌸🌼🌱 niqvassieshop.bigcartel.com

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

drawing outside in 森町 in december.

loose coloured pastel drawing of a line of tall golden/light green bamboo silhouetted against some dark pine trees behind.

loose coloured pastel drawing of a river running down from mountains in the distance. The closer mountains have red autumn leaves and there is a group of reeds growing from the stones of the river bank.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A caterpillar i rescued from the floor a station twice within 20 minutes. Glad they didn't get trampled!

Three pencil drawings of a big hawkmoth caterpillar. It's dark brown with yellow and red eye-like spots running along the body, and a little white-tipped tail spike which is waving.

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LDV_NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thanks to #LDV volunteer and artist @niqvassie.bsky.social for the fabulous sketch below - one of many to be featured in the soon to be published 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley' 📖 @yorkbirding.bsky.social

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Taking on a handful of pet commissions to work on next week for anyone interested! Details at my online shop: niqvassieshop.bigcartel.com 🌱

Pastel drawing of an orange/gold coloured labrador dog curled up asleep.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Collared pratincole in June on Wheldrake Ings, Yorkshire. Painted for the upcoming book 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley'. I grew up next to this nature reserve and do miss the smell of meadowsweet underfoot and skies full of noisy swifts. ☀️

Digital painting of a collared pratincole bird flying. In the background are swallows, swifts and sand martins flying too. Behind them are dark clouds and a pale bird-hide lit by the evening sun besides a pool surrounded by lush plants such as bulrush, willow and meadowsweet.

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Aymeric Kevin @aymerickevin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Red Bike

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

palm tree, supposedly very rare

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Male fig wasps generally look entirely different to the females with most having no wings, vestigial/no eyes and tiny antennae. They cannot survive long outside the fig - their only role being to mate and then chew an exit for the winged females. 🌱

Pencil drawings of male fig wasps. Two are drawn from above - they have wedge-shaped heads, short chunky legs, tiny/no eyes and long fleshy abdomens. In the bottom right corner there is a drawing of one with his abdomen curled beneath his legs.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Drawings of female fig wasps done for my masters thesis. The intricate interdependence between fig trees and fig wasps is so so amazing! ✨

Pencil drawing of a female Ceratosolen solmsi fig wasp. She has a wedge-shaped head, large eyes and chunky antennae.

Pencil drawings of female Ceratosolen fusciceps fig wasps. The upper wasp has wings, chunky antennae and a relatively large abdomen. The lower wasp has lost her wings and half her antennae and her abdomen is tucked beneath her laying eggs.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A Sandworm of Dune - based on real beautiful marine polychaetes ☀️

Digital painting of a giant sandworm from the novel Dune. It has grey scales down its back and rows of pale-red bristly parapodia along the sides. It has a sharp beak and short tentacles around the mouth. It's ventral side is purple. At the top left of the image are simple sketches of the animal's mouth open and closed.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Conkers painted from life in gouache (seeds of European horse-chestnut 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮) 🌱 The name is a bit misleading as this tree is poisonous and not related to typical edible chestnuts. Horse-chestnuts are actually in the same family as trees such as maples, lychees and ackee.

Gouache painting of conkers/seeds of a horse-chestnut tree. On the left is a shiny brown seed within its fleshy spiked green case which is half-open. On the left is a seed without a case and beside them both is a small golden leaf from the same tree.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Alien fish concepts

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

By The Lake

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

a creature of the deep 🐠🐠🐠🐠

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

We report: our throat sometimes catches at nightfall. The emotion is tough to identify, neither sadness, relief, or joy - something muddled that comes from a hidden corner of our mind, that stirs when the light dims. In autumn, it visits us a little bit earlier every day.

Digital painting of a sky at the end of the sunset. It is a complex gradient of dark blue to light blue, then yellow, orange, and a thin, lilac band of clouds on the horizon. There are some wispy, purple clouds splitting the sky horizontally in the middle as well, a flight of geese, and some faint stars.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

orphaned badger cub I met shortly after they were acquired by a local wildlife rehabilitator 🌱

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

hellooo, giving bluesky a try - here are some old little worlds of mine 🌧

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