Currently taking a storm-day off from the West End market in Edinburgh but back at it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11 - 6

Heading for Newcastle 20th - 22nd June for the epic Great Northern Contemporary Craft fair 🙌🧡

More fun than bike riding? Bike riding with a friend🧡🧡

#WorldBicycleDay Learnt to ride in my 40s, haven’t stopped since 🙏🧡

Swift action anyone? Email Angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.

Process.. #printmaking #linoprint #reliefprinting #reductionprint

‘Cecile’ (an imaginary friend), layers one and two, reduction print. Dark layer first, then white which shows up as a lovely blue-grey. I may leave some like this, and add birds to others.. #printmaking #linoprinting #reductionprint

Haven’t shared my finished Mixed Veg linocut prints, which are hand painted with watercolors. These will be part of my summer drop this weekend! #printsky #printmaking #artsky #illustrator

Missed last week’s #printpromptmonday as I don’t think I’ve ever successfully carved text! This week’s #growth is still a challenge but gone for this.. Ganesha in progress on the grounds that he’s a sized-up version of an older print😬 (pictured)

First woodblock print incoming! (In between three commissions..🧡)

Getting a good dose of the westerlies up Allermuir this morning 💙

THE GUARDIAN: Labour's surprising U-turn on swift bricks ignites backlash as endangered birds face housing crisis. Activists and the public rally for wildlife-friendly building amid growing governmental disconnect. - by Patrick Barkham

Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes

MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

theguardian.com

Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them

swift brick chat in the House of Lords, at Zac Goldsmith’s event ‘Saving Swifts From Extinction’. This week The Planning & Infrastructure Bill committee will likely vote against the swift brick amendment. Please email your MP asking them to sign this edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

When not printing, I will be found here. 😊☀️

Drawing for a new print. The multiple drawing and tracing processes of a multi-block print, complicated by the realisation that I’d forgotten to include the specified background..(it’s a commission..) Back, literally, to the drawing board 😬 #linoprinting #ganesha #commission

#printpromptmonday #process A block in the process of creating a five layer reduction Lino print (layers 2-4 shown). The block is gradually carved away to create each layer, and in this case I am working from dark to light for that extra challenge😉 #linoprinting #reductionprinting

Layer four of five. Reduction Lino print. She also has a separate ‘frame’ block to print at the end #printmaking #linoprint #reductionprint

I rarely repeat, but agreed to make a painting to commission similar to a very popular one.. Enjoyed that, again;) #painter #printmaker #commissionedart

Layer two of a dark-to-light reduction Lino print. Always a bit of a brain adjustment working this way around.. #printmaking #linoprinting #reductionprinting

Proserpina’s third layer, of five or six depending how it pans out;) #linoprinting #reductionptint #reliefprint

For #printpromptmonday #spring I’m going with this new blue print, as I called it ‘The tulip-seller’s daughter’. The tulips and colour definitely give it a spring-like vibe for me and I made it in April😉💙

HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR FIRST SWIFTS YET? When you have/ if you do, comment on this video saying which county and when to win a free copy of my book #NatureNeedsYou #TheFightToSaveOur swifts 3 people will be randomly chosen by my publisher ⁦‪@eandtbooks‬⁩.bsky.social

Completed reduction print based on a sketch, which was itself based on a short story I wrote for a contest. Probably not destined to be my biggest seller but my brain loves what it loves;) #printmaking #linoprinting #reductionprint

Progress of a dark-to-light reduction test print. Full print awaiting carve, as long as this works! All good so far😉 #printmaking #linoprint #reductionprint

Nearly forgot #printpromptmonday #earth but here’s the best fit I can find. Still thinking of reprinting in a subtley different way🤔

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

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Miki update. Just pressed layer three, now to carve and print the final layer. #linoprinting #reductionprint

Another new thing. Like to have a few on the go, especially when they are reduction prints 😊 #printmaking #linoprinting #reductionprint

One important thing we can all do to secure the future of the UK’s swifts thanks to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social ‘s tireless campaigning

Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you think you can make a difference to help nature? Do you want to? Email your MP asking them to sign the Early Day Motion for Securing cavity nesting habitat for swifts and other birds 🪶it’s v easy for any MP to do & birds really need their help edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...