Helen Cooper
@helencooperbooks.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford.
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Hello Bluesky people.I’m an author and illustrator who is interested in
: books
: art and illustration
: journalism
: science
: music
…actually - all sorts of things. If you want to know more about what I do you can check out my website- link in the bio - it looks like this.
: books
: art and illustration
: journalism
: science
: music
…actually - all sorts of things. If you want to know more about what I do you can check out my website- link in the bio - it looks like this.
I really saw this hippo. It was in the Harvard Natural History Museum. They moved it. Does anyone else remember seeing it here? Maybe it got there itself. I was sure it was magic so I wrote a book about it. ‘The Hippo at the End of the Hall’ a while ago now. #art.sky #hippo #book.sky
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt
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Morning Light In The Kitchen St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Morning Light In The Kitchen St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
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Twilight In The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Twilight In The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
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Day 7 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut horseshoe crab (Tachypeus gigas) in grey, blue-bronze and dark brown on 8” x 8” cream-coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧪🐡 They get their name from their horseshoe like shape but they are not crabs; they are chelicerates, more closely related to 🧵
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Day 7 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut horseshoe crab (Tachypeus gigas) in grey, blue-bronze and dark brown on 8” x 8” cream-coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧪🐡 They get their name from their horseshoe like shape but they are not crabs; they are chelicerates, more closely related to 🧵
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Irish stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes, Rose Window (1938), St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium, #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Irish stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes, Rose Window (1938), St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium, #WomensArt
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The Alleyway Summer Morning Isleworth: acrylic on canvas
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Alleyway Summer Morning Isleworth: acrylic on canvas
Here’s another moving tiny animation thingy I made. (No AI.) This one is about waiting… because I am waiting for something endlessly …it feels this year… hence the digital fiddling. Can you guess which painting this was inspired by? #art #bsky.animation #catart #homemade
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Here’s another moving tiny animation thingy I made. (No AI.) This one is about waiting… because I am waiting for something endlessly …it feels this year… hence the digital fiddling. Can you guess which painting this was inspired by? #art #bsky.animation #catart #homemade
Here’s my witch out of her bottle in the Gee Museum and on the rampage. (Otherwise known as me messing around with digital art in a low tec way but at least you can tell it isn’t slick enough to be AI) #art #bookart #movingpictures witch first seen in ‘The Hippo at the End of the Hall’.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Here’s my witch out of her bottle in the Gee Museum and on the rampage. (Otherwise known as me messing around with digital art in a low tec way but at least you can tell it isn’t slick enough to be AI) #art #bookart #movingpictures witch first seen in ‘The Hippo at the End of the Hall’.
I was on the judging panel for #TheRoyalSociety Young People’s Book Prize. It was a great pleasure to be involved. Here’s the wonderful shortlisted books which are announced today. Now they go out to at least 600 schools and the kids pick the winner.To be announced in Spring 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I was on the judging panel for #TheRoyalSociety Young People’s Book Prize. It was a great pleasure to be involved. Here’s the wonderful shortlisted books which are announced today. Now they go out to at least 600 schools and the kids pick the winner.To be announced in Spring 2026.
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Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)
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🎨: Masumi Nagase, "Quiet Night"
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎨: Masumi Nagase, "Quiet Night"
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Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican (1917-2011), Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge, 1947, oil on board, 40 x 27.5 in
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican (1917-2011), Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge, 1947, oil on board, 40 x 27.5 in
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Morning Light In The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Morning Light In The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas
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Winter Nocturne Isleworth: black crayon and body colour
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Winter Nocturne Isleworth: black crayon and body colour
I've always loved this one by Ian Archie beck.
Birthday Fireworks: ink and watercolour on vintage paper
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I've always loved this one by Ian Archie beck.
Oh what a rabbit.
#Sculpture, #Kyoto ware incense box in the shape of a crouching rabbit by Japanese potter Nonomura Ninsei, created during the Edo period (mid-17th century) #art
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oh what a rabbit.
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Blue lava erupting from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The mountain contains large amounts of pure sulphur, which emit icy violet colours as it burns.
#Photography by Olivier Grunewald #Indonesia
#Photography by Olivier Grunewald #Indonesia
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Blue lava erupting from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The mountain contains large amounts of pure sulphur, which emit icy violet colours as it burns.
#Photography by Olivier Grunewald #Indonesia
#Photography by Olivier Grunewald #Indonesia
‘The Taming of the Cat’ is out in paperback now. It has copious black and white illustrations and stars a mouse called Brie who has to tell a story to keep a murderous cat occupied. If the cat grows restive so Brie has to think if some fast action! #art #bookillustration #birds #raven #book.sky
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
‘The Taming of the Cat’ is out in paperback now. It has copious black and white illustrations and stars a mouse called Brie who has to tell a story to keep a murderous cat occupied. If the cat grows restive so Brie has to think if some fast action! #art #bookillustration #birds #raven #book.sky
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Network of Stoppages, 1914 #dada #duchamp
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Network of Stoppages, 1914 #dada #duchamp