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Nichola Scrutton
@nicholascrutton.bsky.social
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Composer, artist, performer, working across a range of media and processes. Dr Nic. Also @nic_scrutton at IG.
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Nichola Scrutton @nicholascrutton.bsky.social · May 10
Fragment of work-in-progress. #wip #printmaking #drawing #listening #inner #outer #ephemeral #traces #layers #flow #art #arts #abstractlandscape #abstract #landscape
Detail of an abstract landscape made up of shapes and lines.
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Call out for this wonderful sound project in Peru! Details here or check out @archieislander.bsky.social for other info!
archieislander.bsky.social Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social · 8d
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Notes, detail, wip. #workinprogress #composition #sound #art #soundscape #soundart #landscape #drawing #printmaking #listening #abstractlandscape
Black and white photo of an abstract artwork with lines, shapes and layers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Detail, large charcoal 2021. Clearing out a bit, rounding off - a fresh perspective.😊 #reflection #freshperspective #charcoal #drawing #surreal #liminal #inner #outer #memory #dream #ephemeral #abstract #landscape #surrealism #abstractlandscape #soundscape
Black and white abstract charcoal drawing
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Notes, wip. #markmaking #drawing #ephemeral #notes #organic #foliage #painting #sound #art #artwork #soundscape #sketchbook
Abstract foliage drawing/painting with lines and shapes
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Detail, wip. #liminal #listening #dusk #dream #memory #surreal #drawing #printmaking #landscape #sound #abstract #art #atmosphere #wip
Liminal atmosphere, abstract landscape
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Delighted to have completed a new album for release in 2026 and looking forward to sharing it. Many thanks to Creative Scotland for the support. With warmest wishes, Nx 😊
#newalbum #comingsoon #sound #music #soundart #soundscape #fieldrecordings #dream #memory #blue #art #album #release
Black and white photo of Nichola, who has long bushy light hair, and is smiling
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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November 10, 2013
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Photo of a rural landscape. Pastures of golden grass, hardwood trees in the distance that were starting to change colors, a large oak tree in the lower center with red orange leaves, and a smaller pecan tree with lighter orange leaves. The sky is covered in high clouds of gray and white.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Latest painting: oil on panel, 70 x 100cm. I wanted to try and portray the hills as a place where I feel at home.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #autumn #ireland #irishart
Landscape in oil: rolling hills in autumn colours, with the suggestion of trees in green, brown, ochre and red filling the left side of the composition, and a lighter green, bare hillside to the right. Light blue sky with fair weather clouds above a gentle ridge line.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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One from the sketchbook. Nx #drawing #printmaking #print #monoprint #portrait #portraiture #drawingisfree #fastdrawing #livedrawing #lifedrawing #inky #ink #faces #art #joy
Black and white monoprint of a face
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023.
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Dusk. #sketchbook #twilight #liminal #surreal #memory #dream #listening #dusk #shadow #shadows #abstract #landscape #art
Shadowy drawing of shapes and figures with a large dark moon
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Memory/dream, detail. #dream #memory #liminal #ephemeral #drawing #print #abstract #lines #abstractart #landscape #soundscape #dusk #shadow #surface #layers #atmosphere #wip
Black and white atmospheric drawing of shapes, textures and lines
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Chasing shadows, 2023. #drawing #light #sunlight #shadow #shadows #lines #energy #motion #sound #score #liminal #ephemeral #abstract #landscape
Music manuscript paper with energetic line drawing covering the page
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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My view now
October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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New work in progress detail: mixed media on unstretched hessian.
Mixed media painting of a female figure with back to the viewer, head turned towards the horizon. A sloping ridge line beyond, with grey-blue sky above. Limited palette of blues, red, raw umber and yellows.
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Triptych, old sketchbook.
#loch #oils #landscapeart #abstractart #abstract #landscape #triptych #abstractartwork #light #atmosphere #mood #naturepic #lochview #scotland #planetearth #painting #drawing #visual #composition #artwork #oilsketch #roughsketch #art
Triptych landscape with varying degrees of light and dark
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sunday sketchbook sssssnippet.😃
#dream #memory #ephemeral #liminal #abstractlandscape #abstract #landscape #sketchbook #art #words #sounds #soundscape
Black and white sketchbook snippet
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Jay.🪶 #jay #bird #wildbird #birdart #artsky #drawing #artist
October 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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New painting! Oil on panel, 40 x 50cm. Will be added to my website (see bio). #oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #soggy #Ireland
Mountain landscape in oils: outline of receding ridge lines, with waterlogged, grassy hills and cascading water. A more detailed depiction of rocks, vegetation and water in the foreground, reducing to just outlines beyond, and a simple sky in just 2 colours (buff and light grey-blue). Palette limited and dominated by ochre, raw umber and more of the grey-blue used for the sky.
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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A pic from a recent session at Chem 19 Studios. Huge thanks to Stevie Jones for ace engineering chops and all round good vibes! 🙏😊 #wip #recording #sound #music #soundart #experimental #improvisation #composition #newalbum #creativescotland
Nichola in a studio with headphones on, standing playing a piano with the front taken off
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM