Häri Ren
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r3nio.bsky.social
Häri Ren
@r3nio.bsky.social
Northern artist & storyteller | Creator of Harrowden | Sootpunk | Ind. folklore, decay & resistance.

Website : https://r3n.io/
The Snow Fall (Harrowden Narrow Canal)

Winter is here.... Welcome back to Harrowden in the cold months. Wrap up warm. Keep away from the water’s edge. And if you hear the ice crack behind you, don’t turn round...

#Harrowden #Sootpunk #IndustrialFolklore #DarkArt #NorthernArtist #WinterHorror
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Big thanks to Jay over in Seattle for sending this brilliant photo over of a framed "Cats On The Room Nearby Locke House"!

Cheers Jay, appreciate you loads, thanks for the support once again! Hope them red-eyed cats are behaving themselves over in Seattle… but I doubt it. 😼❤️🖤
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Brass Church - "Assembly at the Crooked Chapel" (A Closer Look)
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Was off at the bookfair yesterday and while I were gone we shot past 20,000 over on instagram! ❤️🖤

Cheers for taggin’ along on this black-and-red sootpunk journey through mills, folklore, black cats, and my strange take on the north. Ta folks! 😻❤️🖤

#Harrowden #Sootpunk #DarkArt #NorthernArtist
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Flat-out getting ready for the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair with the Seditionist crew, but not forgotten you lot... today’s throwback’s to 2016 and my Anarchists Make Better Lovers tee / patch design. ❤️🖤 I’ll have some at the stall Saturday! #AnarchistArt #PunkArt
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A Lovely Picturesque Walk Down Our Local Canal, Saddleworth, England
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Can we just take a moment for how incredible this is?! 😭🖤 A fan of my work sent this, hand-stitched a full cross-stitch / embroidery version of my Pubs of England – The Owl & Lamb! HOW COOL IS THAT?!

Reminds me of 8-bit ZX Spectrum graphics too!

Proper made my day this has! 🍺🦉🐑🖤❤️
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New prints! 😻🖤❤️
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Match Day"
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Back to 2015 this week, some my old pen & ink work when I were deep into screen print & textile design. This one was a logo & tee for Rochdale’s own The Holy Dead... raw black & white, heavy contrast, DIY post-punk vibes. 🖤❤️

#TheHolyDead #ThrowbackThursday #ScreenPrint #PostPunkArt #NorthernArtist
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Love see my art out in wild, make my day when folk send pics! But this one’s special, hangs pride of place on wall of real Meri Nabble Nose 🖤

Her photo inspired one of first Gloamrats in Harrowden! And has been in nearly every one since.

#Harrowden #Gloamrats
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Cankerfallow Night in Harrowden, bairns and Gloamrats out with their root-face lanterns, carved from swedes and parsnips that maybe weren’t carved at all? Tramp the slum sing strange songs, keeping the dead quiet down Gallows Bog way. 🎃

#Harrowden #TheGloamrats #Folklore #NorthernGothic #Halloween
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Void Void Void
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Halloween (Part II)

🖤 Keeping the Halloween vibes going, this one’s from around the same time as last week’s Alice piece, with the same pen and ink style I were using in 2016.

"Friday", one of my old horror dolls. Dark cute twist on Jason. 🖤❤️

#Throwback #ThrowbackThursday #HalloweenArt
October 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mr. Lontaine
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Gloamrat Magnet Fishing In Harrowden Narrow Canal

Finally finished off this one now, I decided to rework some of it from one I posted up other day as wasn't quite happy with overall composition layout and some of story telling elements needed to be a bit stronger. Better? 🖤❤️
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Brandy, Blood and Gospel of Industry, Those That Own Sky (A Closer Look)
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
new cardboard cat! 😻🖤❤️

#cardboardcats
October 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Gloamrat down Harrowden canal, magnet fish off old bridge. rope tied to bit o’ wire and ’ope. Pulled up a rusted trolley, a dead e-scoot frame, even a circuit board slick wi’ oil… relics of some long-dead machine? 🖤❤️
#Harrowden #TheGloamrats #IndustrialFolklore #UrbanDecay #NorthernGothic #PunkArt
October 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
New prints up!

Finished off this piece today, slight change with the added moon. I thought it needed a more 2nd clear light source for the silhouetting and water below as well as the light from the dusk / gloam to the right. ALSO - Added Abner Mooring's house on the banks as it was missing. 🖤❤️
October 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM