Tanya Shadrick
@tanyashadrick.bsky.social
Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
I called out from the East Sussex library system store their copy of Aristotle’s The Nichomachean Ethics. Had tears come when I opened it and found its first readers took it out during the Second World War, when this area was often bombed. And yet people went out to get this text on how to live…
‘Understand how much time it takes for a work, or a path, or a life to take shape’ A sculptor’s advice for art & life: David Nash is perhaps best known for his living art piece the Ash Dome - planted in the 70s for the next millennium. He has literally grown a meaningful life. Here is his advice
Well-worn: Husband & Wife Was going about my quiet day alone at home, thirty years married, when the sight of our clothes without us had me stop and fill with feeling. Always-there but never-noticed: his habitual outfit, mine, hanging together on the basement door.
Well-worn: Husband & Wife Was going about my quiet day alone at home, thirty years married, when the sight of our clothes without us had me stop and fill with feeling. Always-there but never-noticed: his habitual outfit, mine, hanging together on the basement door.
“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!” In memoriam #VirginiaWoolf #DOTD 28 March 1941 📷 Starlings over the River Ouse at Southease, near Woolf’s last home - Monks House, Rodmell, Sussex
“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!” In memoriam #VirginiaWoolf #DOTD 28 March 1941 📷 Starlings over the River Ouse at Southease, near Woolf’s last home - Monks House, Rodmell, Sussex
‘She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which she fled. Flew. From marriage and family. From us.’ Stunning piece by @npitchford.bsky.social for the decade-long collective #BirdsOfFirle project… selkiepress.com/2025/03/18/b...
Birds of Firle: She Was Always in Flight by Nicola Pitchford
Aerodynamics was her chosen field of engineering. She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which eventually she fled. Flew. From ma…
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‘I once had a winter that was wordless’ In 2020 @littletollerbooks.bsky.social published my #BirdsOfFirle: origin story of a decade-long collective project on hope & grief as the things with feathers. I used Twitter to reach people; hope to relaunch here soon www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...
Deeply moving, beautifully drifting writing from @npitchford.bsky.social for the wonderful, occasional body of threaded stories that is @tanyashadrick.bsky.social’s #BirdsofFirle .. “as if belonging could be as multiple in its objects as love is.”
Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · last yr.‘She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which she fled. Flew. From marriage and family. From us.’ Stunning piece by @npitchford.bsky.social for the decade-long collective #BirdsOfFirle project… selkiepress.com/2025/03/18/b...
Honoured to be part of the beautiful, fragile collective work #BirdsOfFirle, created & curated by Tanya. An ongoing project of 100 writers responding with objects & online to a single physical manuscript, circulated by post over the course of a decade. On grief & hope as the things with feathers...
Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · last yr.‘She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which she fled. Flew. From marriage and family. From us.’ Stunning piece by @npitchford.bsky.social for the decade-long collective #BirdsOfFirle project… selkiepress.com/2025/03/18/b...
‘She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which she fled. Flew. From marriage and family. From us.’ Stunning piece by @npitchford.bsky.social for the decade-long collective #BirdsOfFirle project… selkiepress.com/2025/03/18/b...
Birds of Firle: She Was Always in Flight by Nicola Pitchford
Aerodynamics was her chosen field of engineering. She worked on the Harrier, the Concorde. She had a love of speed and freedom. Sports cars. Like the one in which eventually she fled. Flew. From ma…
selkiepress.com
This silver birch tree is in my back garden & is probably 50+ years old. I aimed to capture it with the remaining few golden leaves clinging on last autumn. Neighbours have always wanted it cut down, but I turn a deaf ear. ‘Heartwood’ Monotype and Drawing 23x29cm
Multiple oaks perhaps from a long-forgotten jay’s cache.
Looking Eastwards is my ongoing artwork where I document the view down the lane from my house. #LandscapePhotograhy www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/looking-east...
“The first bird surprised me… Engraved in memory: black leather legs, rictal bristles on the beak, an aluminium eye, and every wing-feather filigreed by white light so I could feel the hooks and barbules holding each one together, a chain mail” #NatureWriting www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...
I’ve just created a Slow Art starter pack. Alongside that, sharing this link to a @bbcsounds.bsky.social show I took part in alongside my mentor #DavidNash. Also includes work of sculptor #JamesTurrell & musician #JemFiner… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Seriously... - Pursuit of Beauty: Slow Art - BBC Sounds
Illuminated snails dancing, sculpted volcanoes and music playing for 1,000 years.
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Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 2y agoLike my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS
A #SlowArt starter pack… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS A meeting place for all interested in artists of any discipline - photography, fine art, sound, writing, illustration, more - who make work with a long-running, repetitive, ongoing, cumulative or time-defined nature. Glad of shares & suggestions
"The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light." ~ Seamus Heaney Towards Another Summer.
I’ve just created a Slow Art starter pack. Alongside that, sharing this link to a @bbcsounds.bsky.social show I took part in alongside my mentor #DavidNash. Also includes work of sculptor #JamesTurrell & musician #JemFiner… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Seriously... - Pursuit of Beauty: Slow Art - BBC Sounds
Illuminated snails dancing, sculpted volcanoes and music playing for 1,000 years.
bbc.co.uk
Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 2y agoLike my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS
Like my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS
Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 2y ago‘Understand how much time it takes for a work, or a path, or a life to take shape’ A sculptor’s advice for art & life: David Nash is perhaps best known for his living art piece the Ash Dome - planted in the 70s for the next millennium. He has literally grown a meaningful life. Here is his advice
“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm." - Seamus Heaney
This Rook reminded me of the Mountain Gorilla that David Attenborough famously encountered in Rwanda. They both share the same intelligence in the eye. @tanyashadrick.bsky.social #ukbirding
The Corvid flypast at the cottage just now, on their way to the roost in the nearby copse. This contingent was pretty much pure Jackdaw - the Rooks had sorted themselves out separately, choosing not to have a 'joint enterprise' display. #ukbirding #wildlife #naturalhistory
This is what I get up to sometimes: nicktankard.co.uk Pondering some ideas of my own at the mo but also very much open to book illustration commissions. Cheers 😊👍🏻
‘This was just a crow. / That never fit in anywhere in its life, / or did anything worth mentioning. / It sat there on the branch for a few minutes. / Then picked up and flew beautifully / out of my life.’ - #RayCarver 📷 from #BirdsOfFirle series by @tanyashadrick.bsky.social
The older I get, the more I find value in the gaps, the negative space (known as ma in Japanese) that makes sense of the things around it. With this week's cold weather and now strong winds on the way, the trees will soon be bare and there will lots more gaps to absorb and balance us.
Tanya Shadrick@tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 2y ago“…the gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound…Go up into the gaps.” — #AnnieDillard Image from #BirdsOfFirle by Tanya Shadrick
One of the most generous online souls I’ve ever encountered… @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social’s book reviews - which began on her exquisite instagram - are now in beautiful new long form on Substack. Love this one of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Reynard the Fox open.substack.com/pub/theunhur...
