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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A new illustration and colour study of some fáinleoga - barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) These incredible migratory birds have started to arrive here this week so it seemed like the perfect time to study them. #SpéirGhorm

Pen illustration with muted colours of 5 barn swallows perched on a branch. The word 'Fáinleog' is written in the bottom right corner

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A quick colour study of An Cailleach Dhubh - the Cormorant. These intriguing seabirds have a rich and varied assortment of beautifully descriptive names as Gaeilge - From 'Broigheall' (Broghais/belly & Geal/white) to 'Cailleach Dhubh' (Dark Hag) to 'Fiach Mara' (Sea Raven). #spéirghorm

Illustration of a cormorant perched on a branch, wings outstretched. The words 'Cailleach Dhubh' are written in gaelchló style font on the bottom left of the image

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Natalia Beylis @sunkenhum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My next live outings are with my newly named duo 'Hedgling' featuring me & Willie from @nyahhrecords.bsky.social. We're so excited to be touring with queer hardcore punk legends 'Surge'. They are the best live band I've seen in forever! Poster by the brilliant @votiveillustration.bsky.social

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llewyn máire @savagecraic.ie · 14/03/2025

Such an honour to have been able to contribute to this — particularly as it's in collaboration with @votiveillustration.bsky.social 🤲 Working with the Wort crew has been such a deeply generative experience — there are truly creative, generous & talented folx behind this project.

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Amano @amanoanseo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm honoured to be sharing verse in the next issue of Airmid's Journal. I found myself writing about my lost tongue, diasporic dislocation and perspective breakthroughs. In an issue bursting with Gaeilge, it was a strange gift to find freedom to express layers of myself that stretch beyond Éireann.

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Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Delighted and so thankful to have my trilingual poetry a part of the latest Airmid's Journal! 🌟 Iontach álainn bheith i measc na scríbhneoirí seo. @votiveillustration.bsky.social @amanoanseo.bsky.social #trilingual #poetry #Journal

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Cover reveal and pre-order announcement for the latest issue of Airmid's Journal 🌿 A biannual publication of Irish folklore, foraging, myth, culture, and remedies #folklore #mythology #zine #journal #publishing #diypublishing #SpéirGorm

Image showing the cover of the latest issue of Airmid's Journal. Central image is a song thrush perched on a branch, with visible waves of song coming flowing from their beak. That image is is framed by a separate image featuring ogham stones and coltsfoot flowers. A header reading Airmid's Journal is written in gaelic font at the top of the image. The names of the contributors are listed in the bottom section.

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A detail crop of this Púca and wren, discussing the merits and misfortunes of supernatural trickery 🌿 It's a few years since I illustrated this shapeshifting trickster in goat form, and I've been feeling like revisiting the mischievous Púca again soon #art #illustration #folklore #pooka #SpéirGorm

Image shows a highly detailed black and white illustration of a Púca - a supernatural trickster figure from Gaelic mythology - in the form of a goat with human hands. A wren sits on their shoulder, and they are crowned with a halo of blackberries and brambles. The background is filled with ivy leaves and fruit, mountain ash leaves and berries, and blackthorn.

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

'Belling Of The Stag' An illustration from a couple of years ago - oak and ash forest filled with deer, fox, hare, woodcock, owl, and crow - inspired by the nature poetry in the medieval Middle Irish tale of Buile Suibhne (as translated by JG O'Keeffe) #art #mythology #irishmythology #spéirgorm

A black and white illustration in an Arts & Crafts movement style, of red deers, foxes, hares, crows, owls, and woodcock in a forest of Ash and oak. There is an outer ornate border of acorns, oak leaves, and watercress, and an inner border with a stanza from a poem that reads 'If thou wert to sleep in the bosom of hills
to the soft strings of lutes,
more sweet wouldst thou deem under the oak-wood
the belling of the brown stag of the herd.'

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Really enjoyed creating the artwork for this lovely album. Available to order now from @nyahhrecords.bsky.social #art #illustration #commission #folklore #album #albumart

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In-progress illustration of a great cormorant, Cailleach Dhubh, for an upcoming personal project #art #illustration #folklore #irishfolklore #bird #birdlore #cormorant #cailleach

Image shows a highly detailed but unfinished pen illustration of a cormorant bird on a white background. The bird is perched on an undrawn rock with its wings outstretched

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A recent #commission of #artwork for an exciting upcoming release from @nyahhrecords.bsky.social 'A Collection of Slow Airs.. ' is the 2nd release in the Trad series, and follows their @theguardian.com top ten folk album 'A Collection of Songs in the Traditional and Sean-Nós Style' Out 12/02/25

Illustration album art work of an anthropomorphised hare sitting playing a fiddle. The hare is framed by mugwort, dog rose, and rowan. A text frame at the bottom reads 'A Collection of Slow Airs by Some Very Fine Fiddlers'

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The 4 cross-quarter day fires of Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lúnasa, and Samhain, encircled by the symbolism of each season 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #art #artist #illustration #folklore #irishfolklore #mythology #irishmythology #fire #firefestival

Fineline illustration of a sacred Lúnasa bonfire, encircled by a harvest of wheat. The outer frame has bilberries (fraocháin), blackberries, a sickle, a goatskull, and a high point of stones within an interlace knotwork.

Fineline illustration of a sacred Imbolc bonfire, encircled by a súgán. The outer frame has blackthorn, coltsfoot, snowdrops, and snakes within an interlace knotwork.

Fineline illustration of a sacred Bealtaine dual bonfires, encircled by a garland of summer flowers. The outer frame has hawthorn, rowan, bluebells, and hares within an interlace knotwork.

Fineline illustration of a sacred Samhain bonfire, encircled by a blackberries. The outer frame has carved turnip heads, hawthorn berries, parsil crosses, and hooded crows within an interlace knotwork.

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Some nice etymology for Brigid's day. The feast day is a cross-quarter day, marking the transition from one season to the next 🔥 Welcome spring 🌱 #art #illustration #fineline #fire #spring #brigit #brigid #bridget

Fineline pen art illustration of a bonfire encircled by a súgán rope adorned with brigid's crosses and lozenges. The outside frame of interlace knotwork holds coltsfoot flowers, blackthorn blossoms, snakes and snowdrops

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Cuimhne, Cailleach an Mhuilinn Cuimhne, the Hag of the Mill whose name means 'Memory' as gaeilge, is a shapeshifting cailleach in the Irish mythological tradition. #art #artist #illustrator #illustration #traditionalart #folklore #irishfolklore #mythology #irishmythology #cailleach

Black and white illustration of a hag named Cuimhne standing barefoot at a river bend with her pack horse and her wolfhound. there are trees in the background and two large mill stones sit on the grass in the foreground.

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Votive Illustration @votiveillustration.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

'The bee, the bat, the butterfly, The cuckoo and the swallow, The corncrake and the weather-bleat, Soon all the rest will follow' #art #artist #illustration #illustrator #traditionalart #pen #penandink #folklore #irishfolklore #bird #birdlore

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