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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I'm reading Martin Parr by Val Williams (2002) it's been on our shelf since my daughter was doing A level photography and I'm ashamed to say I don't think I've ever opened it ! Also reading The Box of Delights .

Martin Parr photograph of a brown sofa , Signs of the Times 1992

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

"We keep buying things 'that'll look better and it just doesn't " #MartinParr by Val Williams, (Phiadon 2002)

Photograph by Martin Parr from Signs of the Times 1992. Image shows a saggy brown sofa with bright cushions and a white lace edged antimacassar

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I love ours ( photos from recent night out in the mist) but it can be temperamental and we were nervous of using it in the summer, even on lake shore. I have been glad of it during power cuts!

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

My most popular recent Instagram post is this flaming marshmallow on a stick, not the art I spent hours making 😏... still, when seen together like this they do have matching eerie and Autumnal colour schemes.

Flaming marshmallow on a stick in front of a moody, misty lake with Canadian canoe.

Two cyanotype prints with embroidered details. An owl with yellow and orange flowers and a portrait of a young woman. In the background the room is dark and lit by a warm glowing light.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#Cumbria Printmakers Out of Ink exhibition opens at the Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth tomorrow with an evening PV. #handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My book is being reprinted just as new ones on the same subject are hitting the shelves & it's #IndieBookshopWeek ! New stock is due in August but meanwhile please support your local bookshop (& help this artist) by pre-ordering Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype. #BooksAreMyBag #SummerBooks

A book lies on the grass in dappled sunlight under some paper bunting. Beginners Guide To Cyanotype has a blue and white cover made up of a patchwork of cyanotype prints

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Book Birthday! Has it really been a year? ( it feels like more!) I'm doing a giveaway thing on Instagram even though I swore I wouldn't.

A blue and white cyanotype cardboard cake with white flowers and a silver candle sits in sun dappled woodland under some miniature cyanotype bunting

A picture of Kim, in a blue top, sitting in woodland with cardboard cake and a copy of her book. Shades of green, blue and white.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sitting in the garden under a magic hat which transports me back to all the gardens I've ever loved.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

...and then there was my inability to resist buying more books, a hazard of working at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social 🙂 I will be reading these in the sunshine today before heading off to the #GreatPrint10 exhibition opening this evening, hoping for red dots on prints & sales of MY book! 🤞

A pile of books on a garden table including Judith Rosema, Plant and Ink
Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse and proof copies of Lally Macbeth, The Lost Folk and Jenn Ashworth, The Parallel Path

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Treat number 2 at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social was the proof copy of @lallymacbeth.bsky.social's #TheLostFolk @faberbooks.bsky.social (June) - I'm so excited for this & not just because Lally is the niece of my best friend so she's practically family!

Proof copy of Lally Macbeth's book The Lost Folk, standing on the bookshop desk

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yesterday's bookshop treats @samreadbookseller.bsky.social included a visit from @tompalmerauthor.bsky.social, (it's always so lovely to catch up with him & yesterday I was tempted to join him as he headed up to Easdale Tarn, the setting for part of #AngelOfGrasmere) @barringtonstoke.bsky.social

The author Tom Palmer signing copies of his book, Angel of Grasmere inside Sam Read Bookseller, bookshop.

The covers of two of Tom Palmer's books Secret FC shows two children playing football and Angel of Grasmere shows a girl and a man at Easdale Tarn, Grasmere.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Come to Rheged and buy some art ? Buy my art? Feed the artists instead of the machine! #printmaking #Cumbria #handprinted

Poster, in black , yellow and grey, for the Great Print 10 exhibition at Rheged, Penrith which opens on April 4th. The imager is of a raven in a crown with a speech bubble saying " I am exhibiting"

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's been a good week for author visits at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social , yesterday Cumbrian writer @zoeleawriter.bsky.social called in with proofs of her new thriller #CloserThanSheThinks , out this June @littlebrown.bsky.social

Author Zoe Lea standing in the sunshine in front of the bookshop window, holding her novel

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Lovely to meet @adberginwriter.bsky.social this morning when he called in to @samreadbookseller.bsky.social to sign copies of #TheWickedOfTheEarth - a historical novel set in Newcastle during the witch trials of the 1650s @northodoxpress.bsky.social

The author AD Bergin and his dog outside the bookshop holding a copy of his book

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A new exhibition by #CumbriaPrintmakers opens on the 19th. I saw some very interesting work waiting to be hung when I delivered mine on Sunday. Great cafe too so worth a trip out to the interestingly named Unthank. up-front.com #printmaking #LakeDistrict #DaysOutInCumbria

Poster for a print exhibition March 19 - May 17. Image is a print of Cumbrian fells and Lake in shades of green and grey by Glenn Tomkinson

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

⭐️ quote repost with your art that has stars 💫

3 images of blue and white cyanotype greetings cards. 1.a bear finding a fallen star, 2. a girl hugging a polar bear and 3. a dove with hand embroidered olive branch

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Some bits of blue. I'm patching old things together to try to make something new.

A patchwork of blue and white cyanotype prints on fabric including an image of a Lapwing

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Currently at work at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social trying not to frighten the browsers with my hoots of laughter & occasional sobs of recognition. My babies might be in their 30s now but this still feels raw & real. I wish I'd written it! @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social

A book, "Cry When the Baby Cries" by Becky Barnicoat, stands in the desk at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not what it says in the box sadly! Today's task has been folding & packing 300 greetings cards ready to deliver next week for #GreatPrint10 next in April. Can't wait 'til April? Find them at witchmountain.co.uk 🙂

A cardboard box in the foreground has "Afternoon Tea with Prosecco" scribbled on it in marker pen

3 cyanotype greetings cards featuring an owl, hare and swan are set in a table with Lake District fells in the background

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If you happen to use Instagram or Facebook it's not too late to enter the giveaway competition to win a copy of both these inspiring books (mine & @inkydogstudio.bsky.social's) www.instagram.com/p/DFr9IUhKtd... #printmaking #artbooks #SearchPress

Two books, Nature Imprinted and Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype, standing on a wall in the Lake District, with a white cottage and winter trees in the background

Two books, Nature Imprinted and Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype, standing on a wall in the Lake District, with Sone Arthur fell in the background

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ooh look at the lovely bookshop post from @postalpathsguy.bsky.social ! Such a shame Royal Mail stuck the horrible postage label over the vintage stamp-some people have no visual sense! Alan's new book about rural postal paths is out soon @letterappsoc.bsky.social @samreadbookseller.bsky.social

Handwritten envelope with a painting of a post box

Handwritten envelope with a painting of a rural post box

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Too cute newt found in the kitchen at Loweswater last year.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If you see this post, or quote repost a 'bridge' www.jacobsongallery.com/exhibitions/...

Watercolour by William Tillyer. Reflections on the Esk 2019. Blues and greens with simplified bridge defined by a curving blue shadow

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Worth braving the ice for! I'm in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social today with coffee and a cinnamon bun from Lucia's and some nostalgic reading for me. There's ice inside the windows but it's a beautiful morning.

Desk top with a vintage copy of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, a cinnamon bun and a yellow mug with coffee

Looking down Broadgate in Grasmere towards a snow covered Stone Arthur against blue sky. Everything is frozen including the old red phone box

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I seem to have spent all day making a miniature world and baking cheese scones.

A windowsill with small 3 dimensional painting of a woodland scene with silhouetted cottage in the distance.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The 'Tillyer' section of our bookshelf with its new miniature bookshop, I just need to mix up some shrinking potion ...

A bookshelf with tiny miniature bookshop lit from the inside with its door slightly ajar.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Pie and soup and the first big walk since I got poorly in October. My daughter signed me up on the Fantasy Hike app. We're walking to Mordor, eta at this rate 2028 😏

A small picnic by a winter lake in a mountain landscape

Snow topped Grasmoor seen across marshland and lake. Grey, rust and brown.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A sparkly end to my bookselling year at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social yesterday- the shop, and Lucia's cafe next door, looked like a giant gingerbread house. See you in 2025 for more books, coffee and cinnamon buns x

Sam Read's in Grasmere viewed from the outside at night, windows lit and fairy lights hanging from the eaves like icicles

A pile of books, best sellers this year in the shop

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy #WinterSolstice people of the Northern Hemisphere, the light is slowly returning! It's more autumnal than wintery but here is a small collage of print and stitch I made recently. #cyanotype #printmaking #illustration

Collage of printed leaves and cyanotype mushroom drawing, in shades of blue and black, sprinkled with red stitches.

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I optimistically bought a giant roll of recycled brown paper this week (200 metres). The last one took over 6 years to use; I need more than one order a fortnight to stay in business but at least I'm doing my bit for the planet 😏 Witchmountain.co.uk #handmadegifts #smallbusiness #booksky #cyanotype

Enormous roll of brown paper on a studio table

Cyanotype book with various gift wrapping equipment and a huge roll of brown paper

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The bus to work is a bit of a treat (but fingers crossed the garage can fix my car by home time as it's still another 10 miles home from the bus stop!) #rurallife #LakeDistrict

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Clock watching. #cyanotype and hand embroidery. witchmountain.co.uk/prints

A cyanotype print of a fox with plants including a dandelion clock. Parts of the image are hand embroidered

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hoping someone will reinstate this club so I can join! Loved visiting @themerl.bsky.social with Sara today, followed by a gorgeous swim at Thames Lido. #RuralLife #RoseHips witchmountain.wordpress.com/recipes-and-...

Two button badges from the Rose Hip Collectors Club in the 1960s

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The ups and downs of yesterday in London - ⬆️spotting my book in the Wellcome Collection shop. ⬇️An hour in the sensory overload of the Westfield centre Apple shop failing to get my laptop fixed. It is now landfill apparently.

Books about art including Beginners Guide to Cyanotype, on a bookshop table display

Laptop computer on a table in a busy Apple shop

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm running away for the weekend. Heading to London to visit my daughter & to take my laptop to the apple shop - please keep your fingers crossed that they can fix it - or that I get enough sales before Christmas to pay for a replacement! 😱🥺 witchmountain.co.uk

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

... but not everyone. It's still a mystery to me, who owns Snilesworth Moor now & what happened to the #SnilesworthTrust ? And yes, I know it was ages ago & time should heal but it hasn't, yet. #RuralLife #NorthYorkMoors

North Yorkshire landscape. A grey pony looking over a gate with a sign which reads "We are being made homeless by SnilesworhTrust."

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A quiet day in the bookshop & I fell down an emotional rabbit hole after a conversation with a customer about @guyshrubsole.bsky.social important writing re. land ownership/conservation. #WhoOwnsEngland actually names some people responsible for these events... witchmountain.wordpress.com/2014/10/

Books on a shelf including Who Owns England? By Guy Shrubsole

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you see this post a rabbit (hare sorry) #cyanotype (detail) with hand embroidery currently for sale at The Maker's Mill, Keswick.

Cyanotype artwork of a leaping hare with cross stitched flowers

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ah thank you, it was a project for the cyanotype book, made from paper/air-drying clay.

Blue and white Cyanotype fabric and necklace

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I got a message from the woman who had bought my dove #cyanotype in the #DovesForPeace charity #art auction for @warchilduk.bsky.social Seeing it framed & loved in someone's home makes all the self doubt feel worthwhile 💙

Cyanotype print in gold frame in grey and gold interior

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Good morning from the #bookshop @samreadbookseller.bsky.social I thought I'd be brave, show my face & share my recent & current reads... (with strategic product placement 😉) @londonbessie.bsky.social @katiescribbles.bsky.social

Woman in bookshop holding a pile of books

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Finding inspiration and joy in my tiny #garden pond, it's only a year old so I'm hoping for more frogs this spring. These cards can now be found on my website witchmountain.co.uk/cards-1/frog... at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social & at basecampnorthlakes.co.uk #printmaking #LakeDistrict

hand holding a small card with a print of a moonlit pond with frog

pink water lily on a small reflective pool

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Human made Art store share: Its coming up to the festive period, please QRT this and share your stores! I make original #cyanotype art as well as cards, gifts and cyanotype kits/books. witchmountain.co.uk

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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yes! John's films and photographs are wonderful, mine, from up the road aren't so much but how lucky we are to live here, I could never take it for granted.

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