Somhairle Kelly
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Somhairle Kelly
@eithin.bsky.social
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Queer, trans, disabled, he/they. Artist, designer, amateur material culture historian, ex-nanomaterials scientist. Open University environmental everything student. Welsh, living in Scotland by the sea.

Fix your hearts or die.
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I swear the Christmas lentils are earlier every year.
A red and green supermarket display bin saying "Merry Christmas" with a picture of a happy gingerbread man, filled with packets of red split lentils and green broth mix.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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This ball & stick representation is a new one on me - maybe it's just that I've been away from basic chemistry for a very long time?
A ball-and-stick representation of a nitrogen molecule, showing three electron pairs shared between the molecules, but the bonds come out of the centres of the molecules and the upper and lower ones have noticeable corners sticking out.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I cannot wait for the smaller #bookbinding needles I ordered to arrive.
A large needle threaded with linen thread sits on a cutting mat.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I love impasto acrylics, except how long it takes them to cure.
A small piece of canvas covered with swirled brown and gold paint.
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Keeping my hands busy during tutorials (online tutorials!) helps me focus.
A notebook cover, greyboard and blue silk-stranded tissue paper.
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Now I need to choose some cover paper, and touch up the paint on the leather-embossed paper that makes up the spine binding. (Gmund H(l)eather).
An uncased text block, a half-finished cover, a scalpel, a metal ruler, and a bone folder sit on a battered cutting mat.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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For various reasons I needed a distraction, so here we are. No process photos because hyperfocus happened. My first time making a book block with multiple signatures. I really need some smaller bookbinding needles, 15s are absurd for this.
A poorly lit photo of a blank book block, 40 leaves of just under A6, backed with mull and ready to be covered.
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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One nice surprise from all the packing and unpacking I've had to do recently - the lovely needle book @evenicholls.bsky.social made me has resurfaced! As for the thing I still can't find? The box with all the thread in. I have miles of sashiko thread, but no embroidery or bookbinding thread at all.
A quilted fabric needle book, done in gorgeously autumnal fabrics and lined with brown moleskin. It lies half open to show the popper fastening and the eyes of a half-dozen needles. It sits on a green cutting mat that has long ago given up any hope of self-healing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This evening's drawing, playing with the effect of layers - not the visual effect, but the way they interact with process. #DigitalArt #Rebelle
Digital art: gold ochre watercolour and black fineliner. A forest floor in autumn.
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Stonehaven Bay, looking over at the Highland Fault. 17:00 today.
An intensely, moodily blue view across a pebble beach and a bank of seaweed to a choppy bay and a soft-looking headland.
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I really miss doing physical printing. Not being able to work with ink and paper and press is leaving me really ungrounded. This was from last year, and the combination of disability and having the place still upturned for contractors means it's barely been an option since.
A woodblock print on white paper, depicting a windswept tree on a textured hillside, in a half frame.
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Equinox, and we are now officially halfway through Autumn! It feels like it out there - chilly morning sunlight is turning the Old Red Sandstone buildings golden.
A matte black laser-cut tree overlays crackled autum-coloured paintwork like bonfire toffee.
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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It's been a while since I found a good vintage cookbook! This one is a first edition from 1960, by Molly Weir, who would later go on to be Hazel the McWitch from Rentaghost. Like a lot of her career, it's very Scottish-flavoured for English consumption, but she does promise some proper Scots food.
A paperback book cover, showing a 1950s housekeeper smiling and presenting a dish on a tray. A dapper fish wearing evening dress and waving a top hat is dancing on the dish. The text reads: Molly Weir's Recipes. New Ideas and Old Favourites by 'Aggie' of 'Life with the Lyons'.
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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And "Still here" - illustrating the artist's state of mind & cope.
A digital painting of mountain pasture, very smudged & inky.
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This picture is entitled "My flat is full of workmen, l cannot nap, and all my analogue art materials are covered in dust sheets".
A red and orange digital painting , showing some sort of tree and possibly a very overgrown bramble bush.
September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Stonehaven beach today.
A low-angle photo of a pebbled beach in late August sunlight, a low tide rising.
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Today's artwork. Mixed media, book scraps & monoprinted acrylic on canvas.
A small artwork, with a thick layer of complicated swirling textured blue-green-gold paint below a collage of scraps torn from an old Wordsworth Classic edition of The Man Who Was Thursday. The shape is reminiscent of a mountain skyline.
August 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night.
August 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Maybe this will help?
A blue painted background with the text "I have legitimate concerns about genocide please stop it" in black.
July 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A slightly crooked photo of a bundle of gladioli in a white vase, next to a painting. The flowers are showing red, yellow, and purple, with lots more flower buds yet to come.
July 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Whichever underpaid worker glued this Kindle case together did an amazingly inconsistent job. Parts of it are like rock and parts barely glued at all.
The tray portion of a kindle paperwhite case, with the remains of a two-thirds removed decorative cover.
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The haar came in quickly this evening. Images taken ten minutes apart.
Stonehaven Bay: a shingle beach at a lowish tide, with the sun shining copper on the headland. Stonehaven Bay: a shingle beach, with a bank of fog entirely hiding the headland.
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Finally, a better photo! Also, finished. For sale in principle. (Mixed media, loosely inspired by a particular hawthorn hedge I saw on holiday.)
An A4 sized painting, released from its frame for photography and curling slightly. Green and gold swirls cover leather-textured paper, and a messy gestural network of leaf shapes fills the space inside the Vandyke brown frame.
July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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And another design - the ever-beloved opening paragraphs of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Free shipping till the end of Sunday, and after that it's just good value - and these are the most comfortable T-shirts I've ever worn, as well as being very green.

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A grey T-shirt with some fancy typesetting - the opening paragraphs of Pride & Prejudice.
July 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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This weekend, you can get free shipping on all my Teemill shop - trees and leaves and words and more. This one is a subtle, or at least deniable, trans flag tree design.

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A grey scoop-necked T-shirt with a black tree, seeming to dance in a wind, against a purple & pink background.
July 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM