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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Rootling" a 3 layer reduction in green or pinx! Thinking about the lost native species of the UK and what a pre enclosure landscape might be like. #reductionprint #boar #linoprint

A 3 layer lino print of a wild boar in a forest in shades of green

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Strangford @strangford.co · 03/01/2026

“The Plot Chickens” My newest woodcut reduction print 🐓🐓 70 x 50cm, edition of 55 #handprinted #printmaking #printsky #blockprint #artsky

A layered woodcut print of a chicken - in green and pink. The chicken is in a pecking pose and has a shift look

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Rootler" Layer 2 reduction. Planning on one more darker layer. Light, midtone and dark can be a useful way of reduction printing, though often I don't do it this way 😂. #reductionprint #linoprint #boar

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Been riso printing a lot on a Tuesday evening at riso club. #risoprint

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Back to drawing on my lunch breaks: rosehips are surprisingly variable #sketchbook #dailydrawing

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New 2 block lino print "Mistlethrush singing into the storm" which is the energy I'm aiming for as we travel forth. #newprint #linoprint #printmaker

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"Our August Tangle" a #reduction #linoprint of our garden. I worked spontaneously outside in the garden using 2 layers of water based ink, 2 of oil based. Trying to be loose and enjoy mucking about. It was a lot of fun and very in keeping with our wee rented garden. #printmaker #botanicalart

A reduction print in greens, purples and pinks of a garden, cosmos, clover, pumpkin leaves, seed heads, nasturtiums entangling and growing round each other, in and out of shade

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Escaped Goat 2: a 36 page #zine #riso printed about my youth doing #riotgrrl thangs . rkwanderings.etsy.com/listing/4344...

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I've just spent half a day making this drawing. It was an intense experience - I was drawing from observation outside - and my body hurts now. #drawing #sketch #botany

Drawing of aquilegia seed heads and leaves in a colours from greens through purples and pinks, browns and blues.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A little #riso #zine I made at riso club at thin ice press. Tabling at the York Zine Fest 2/8

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Life's been stupid hectic. I've been part of the York Printmakers Festival of Print in a pop-up on High Petergate. I'll be there again, end of August. Been #muckingabout with #collographs #tetrapack & #repeat #blockprinting and #zine writing. Some of which be seeable at York Zine Fest 2nd August!

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I keep a sketch book in my bag and muck about in it as often as I can. It keeps me together. What about you? #sketchbook #york #shropshire #botanicalart

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My first wood engraving. It's blimmin hard to carve in comparison to lino! #printmaking #woodengraving

A small wood engraving print of a jackdaw & meteor printed in midnight black on handmade paper

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#printpromptmonday #spring themed my just finished 4 layer reduction print "keep safe" based on a bullfinch nest. #nest #wip #wildness #eggs #bullfinch

A four layer lino print in greens with 4 blue freckled bullfinch eggs and fluffy sheep fibres.

Last layer carved inked and ready to print of the lino

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#printpromptmonday on Thursday of course: this self #portrait is"The Unkeepable Pumpkin Wife" part 2 of my In Her Hair series unpacking how patriarchy affected the women in my family via sayings and shame & the reclamation of relationship with wildness. #wildwomen #printsky

Lino print of a light skinned woman with a long hair plait woven through with a growing pumpkin plant. She is encased inside a pumpkin seed shell, yet she is spilling out of it. In the foreground she holds a pumpkin seed between finger and thumb, as a key.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Here's my super late #printpromptmonday #earth themed two layer + jigsaw lino print "Wintering" featuring a rabbit and bulbs literally sheltering in the Earth from the gorgeous ravages of winter's cold wind. It's set in the Hole of Horcum! #yorkshire #printsky #wintering #rabbit

A lino print of a rabbit in its burrow near bulbs and bracken in warm oranges and browns as a full moon rises over a wind ravaged valley in cool purples

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New tiny #reductionprint in progress - a bullfinch nest. Two layers in is usually a hopeful point in the process. #linoprint #printsky #artsky #wip doing York Open Studios again this weekend if you'd like to see this print in progress.

2nd layer of a lino reduction print - a very pale transparent blue covered with the darker eggshell blues of the egg shadows. The photo shows the block in its registration system of a closely cut to fit grey board and Ternes Burton pins next to the printed second layer.

A print of the second layer of a reduction of eggs in a nest in light blues. 4 eggs nestle and some of the white wool used to weave the best is visible.

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Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ready for some April prints everyone? Gettem hot n fresh here! @printsbythebay.bsky.social, @strangford.bsky.social and I have concocted these beauties, get stuck in and don’t forget to please *share the graphic around* - it really helps us spread the word ❤️ Read below for some tips…

A #printpromptmonday graphic with a rabbit tooting a trumpet and text showings the April prompts as follows:
7th Friends
14th Favourite Piece
21st Earth
28th Portrait

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here's some #friends for #printpromptmonday magpies guarding sleeping female consciousness..."seven for a secret" thanks @gemmatrickey.bsky.social @strangford.bsky.social & @printsbythebay.bsky.social for the awesome prompts

A lino print in blue on off white of an apple tree with Eve sleeping in the branches. Seven magpies guard her. Will she wake and eat the fruit of the knowledge of food and evil which surround her?

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My studio/ front room is taking part in York Open Studios the next 2 weekends. I'm venue 10 and you can all the info on York Open Studios website. It's a brilliant chance to chat all things print making. #printmaking #printsky #openstudio #linoprinting

A brightly coloured 3 block lino print in pinks, blues and orange of a nuthatch in an autumn birch wood.

Four lino prints from large black on ecru to 3 colour blocks

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

That moment when a shaft of sunlight illuminates the depths of colour in oil printing inks is how I am interpreting this week's #printpromptmonday #magic theme. My studio will be open the next two weekends as part of #yorkopenstudios if you'd like to see "3 Wise Women" irl!

A lino print of 3 Wise Women - Curiosity in blues, Hearth in reds & Craft in greens

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Sketchbooking - every spring I want to draw all the plants. I never manage it! #sketchbook #botany #artsky

A sketch of a snake 's head fritillary and wood anemone flower in blue pencil focusing on pattern

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Strangford @strangford.co · 02/03/2025

🎺 The Print Prompt Monday - March Prompts 🎺 Interpret the prompts however you want! You might want to hold off posting anything until we make the weekly Monday 6pm post (just you’ll get more engagement then) Give this a share! #printpromptmonday #printing #artshare #art #illustration

A graphic to show the prompts for print prompt Monday:
3rd “Flipped”
10th “Water”
17th “In Progress”
24th “Foliage”
31st “Magic”

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Spoilt for choice with this week's #printpromptmonday #foliage - my very favourite thing to look at and carve! Here's "Trespassing" from a couple of years back.

A green lino print of the edge of a wheat field - showing the tangling diversity of weeds. In amongst the weeds are bare feet.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For #printpromptmonday #inprogress here's this very close to being fully carved A3 lino print - the third in my personal generational exploration series "In Her Hair III: a yard of ditch water". The print is of my mother who was told when growing up that "her hair was a yard of ditch water"...

Lino block in progress of "In Her Hair 3: a yard of ditchwater"

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Strangford @strangford.co · 10/03/2025

Throwing this print from 2021 into the ring for print prompt Monday “Seal of Disapproval” 73x26cm Lino print #printpromptmonday #water #printmaking #artshare #art #linoprint #illustration

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"Nuthatch revealing abundance" - working title of this 3 block print - pretty much happy with the layers and moving on to cutting paper. It's my least favourite printmaking job, I'm treating my ears to Lianne Hall's back catalogue and the new Ani DiFranco to get me through. #printsky #linocut

3 block lino print of a birch covered hill in pink, a close up of oak bark in peach, a nuthatch and rosehip briar in blue.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This week's #printpromptmonday on a #water theme: offering from the past year's archive - super hard to photograph "Depths". A joyful carve, but I printed it onto handmade paper that buckled as it dried. I was happy with the textures though, I tried to not "overprint" and mucked about underprinting.

A 4 layer lino reduction print in shades of blues of Crummock Water & surrounding peaks and their reflection in the lake.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Serving this week's fish dish #printpromptmonday #flip theme - "salmon of knowledge" 2023 a 7 layer reduction - flipping tail and a right brain flip - I can tell you! Wish I'd got more than 7 out of the edition. (Psst! UK Northerners - I do workshops - mailing list link in bio).

Lino print of a Salmon foraging for hazelnuts of knowledge in a green pool with ripples and reflections of the hazel grove on the surface.

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm late in all senses to the #printpromptmonday party - I was in A&E yesterday so...! What a marvellous idea @gemmatrickey.bsky.social & @strangford.bsky.social & ?who I can't remember... Sorry. A lino print for "In Motion" prompt: I became a fox (you became an owl)". Should I reprint it?

A6 orange & blue lino print of a running fox & flying owl

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Layer next on this challenging reduction print. One to go. Oh to be a dung beetle up on Hergest Ridge! #walkingWales #wip #beetle #autumnvibes

Reduction print in autumn colours of bracken harebells and a dung beetle

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Last weekend's York zine fest & black lodge press 2 layer riso poster making. Blorange is a new riso colour to me! #embracediversity #risoprinting #zine #poster

Orange and teal person holding banner "embrace diversity" turning into a snake

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Whoop! I am enjoying printing the 3rd layer of this reduction. It's a memory of last autumn's Offa's dyke walking. #walking #mentalhealth #Wales #reductionprint #reliefprinting

Orange green & yellow ink applied over pale blues and black to reveal bracken, harebells and a dung beetle

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All the grey weather today, so I tried to find the colour in that on my lunch break #lunchtimesketch #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #tree

Watercolour sketch of a full tree, fallen leaves at its base green moss in high branches

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Having a brackentastic time carving the third layer of my Offa's Dyke reduction print. Some mind bending challenges, not least deciding on the colour to mix, then roll. #blockprint #reductionprint #naturegirl #botanical #mentalhealth #bracken

Part carved lino block of bracken and the sketch I'm working from

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I love the second layer of a reduction print - hopeful, with some form poking through. Aiming for two more layers. Wish me luck! #linocut #reductionprint #linoprint #artsky

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Doing a heap of carving on this lino block which mixes up Greek myth and Yorkshire SSI Skipwith. Persephone, here, is letting the grief of winter unravel. A messy block I am currently establishing rhythm in. #linocut #linoprint #linoblock #WIP #womeninmyth

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today's #leafportrait - oak leaves are so diverse, there's a few fancy oaks at #yorkuniversity campus that I enjoy the leaves of on my lunch breaks 😂. #dailysketch #watercoloursketch #colourline #sketchbook #drawingtounderstand

A watercolour line sketch of an oak leaf that's overwintered - oranges and blues

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Been #linoprinting these 3 Wise Women, a new print, carved end of last year. Using epiphany colours - from L to R, brief version: intelligence, compassion, skill #wildwomen #printmaking #artsky #reliefprinting

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

January's sketchbook: loads of watercolour sketches, all botanical, many from lunchtimes #watercolour #sketchbook #botanicalart #leafportrait

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Avens for today's lunchtime #leafportrait . I felt all rushed as management changed the menu and we lowly workers had a whole bunch more prep to do. But it was good light today. #dailysketch #sketchbook #yorkartist #botanicalart

Watercolour line sketch of an avens leaf

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A new skill I'm learning - wood cut with a view to trying #mokuhanga. Definitely different to carving lino. Newskillz beats the long winter blues. Anyone got any tips? #woodcut #ukprintmaker #pomegranate #artsky #reliefprint

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Rachel Holborow @rkwanderings.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Today's leaf is bracken, which honestly I could draw for hours not just 15 minutes. How are you all doing through the storm? #leafportrait #dailysketch #botanicalart #sketchbooking #ukartist

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