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Tamsin Abbott
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Grown from nature, receiving wonder, creating stories in glass. Illustrator in glass of ‘Wild Folk’ with Jackie Morris author.

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Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social · Jul 23
Turn down the lights, turn up the volume for a sublime moment. The words of Jackie Morris read by Jerome Flynn put together with music by Dougal Abbott. This is balm for the soul. (Stained glass by me!)
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Top 5 cosy autumn reads:

The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner

🍂📚💙
leaves are falling from the trees in a park
Alt: leaves are falling from the trees in a park
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October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
I originally meant to have this ready for the first of May, ha! Only five-ish months late, it's the next in my Summerisle Procession series of lino prints - It's Holly! Available from 12:00 (GMT) on Wednesday...
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Lino print of a girl in a white dress with her top half covered by a large hare head decorated with flowers.
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Seems like a good day to post this...

#Refugees
#Asylum
When we dehumanise refugees, we dehumanise ourselves - Bylines Scotland
If we allow lies and propaganda to inform our views of refugees, what does that say about us?
bylines.scot
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
My life has been somewhat erratic over the last few months and I have not had a great deal of time in my workshop and this time is certainly precious at the moment. But I have managed to immerse myself in the process of creating to make a few pieces for Old Chapel Gallery, Herefordshire.
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I will need £1 for the socks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Looking forward to this!
resurgencetrust.bsky.social Resurgence @resurgencetrust.bsky.social · 17d
We also look ahead to December with our #free Wild Folk talk featuring Jackie Morris & @tamsintheshed.bsky.social and an evening exploring the sacred art of #Kriya, using the breath as a path to stillness and renewal, plus our event recommendations...

Read our #events newsletter > conta.cc/4hm3WHE
Wild folk: tales from the stones Thursday 4 December • 7—8.30pm GMT • via Zoom Join storyteller-artists Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott for an evening of myth, art and imagination as they share from their new collaboration, Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones. This luminous book brings together seven stories inspired by the land, told through Jackie’s evocative words and Tamsin’s radiant stained-glass imagery. In this special conversation, they will read from the book, reflect on the creative journey behind it, and explore how story and art can deepen our sense of connection with the natural world. Book a FREE space: resurgenceevents.org Kriya – the sacred art of purification using the breath Thursday 11 December • 7—8.30pm GMT • via Zoom We invite you to explore subtle yet powerful sacred breathing practices called kriyas with yoga teacher Alison Howard-Jones and discover how they can benefit your overall wellbeing. In a comfortable seated position, you will be gently guided through a completely rounded series of exercises that include many aspects of yoga, which is in itself a fully embodied practice. By carefully following the instructions, you can experience subtle and profound effects on body, mind and emotions, and over time this can be a rich source of ‘opening up’. As the event unfolds, you will learn the name, purpose and meaning of each kriya and come to know a unique practice that you will be able to use again. Booking and info: resurgenceevents.org Listening to the Land Day Wednesday 7 January • 9am to 6pm GMT Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford OX1 2DH Join us for the return of the Listening to the Land Day, a collaborative exploration of how building a reciprocal relationship with Nature can support radical food system transformation. This gathering will offer anyone who has a deep, heartfelt connection to the natural world the opportunity to share knowledge, insights and ways of knowing, and to reconnect with a sense of belonging and community with the human and more-than-human world. Buy a ticket > https://www.tickettailor.com/events/landbasedspirituality/1791638 Sentience and sapience Animate Earth 2025 Confluence Saturday 15 November • 4—7pm GMT • online Hosted by Rachel Fleming with Monica Gagliano, Jay Griffiths, Vanessa Wijngaarden & guests Join Animate Earth and guests as we look at the evidence for intelligence, communication, patterns and relationships in Nature. We will be joined by leading scientists and plant and animal communicators, who will be discussing their findings and sharing with us some of the practices they use for conversation with the other-than-human world. Book a space > https://animate-earth.org/events/animate-earth-2025-confluence/
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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A November Evening, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh.
Painting of clouded grey evening sky, wintering trees, two women collecting firewood on winding lane.
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Had to rest up today as I’ve been over doing things but by this afternoon my energy was returning and I carved this pumpkin. A Wild Folk inspired Black Fox!
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Wayne Anderson, 1984. From the Time Life series The Enchanted World, “Wizards and Witches” book.

#illustration #1980s #WayneAnderson
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1908.

#illustration #1900s #witch #cats #IdaRentoulOuthwaite
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Reading is food for your mind. Like food, different reading choices serve different purposes. Some books are read for pleasure; some to satisfy a need. Some are like junk food; great as long as that's not all you eat. Some help to counter an imbalance in knowledge or experience. Variety is the key.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Did you read (or hear on R4) Chloe Dalton's Raising Hare? Do you love #hares ? Would you like to help their survival in England by establishing a 'closed season'? You've still a few more hours to sign this petition. Shooting hares in the breeding season leaves dependent young to starve to death.
Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season
We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th ...
petition.parliament.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
As the veil thins we seek the places of power, touch our ancestors’ hands through time, through stone. The psychopomps offer special favours to bring those who have died another glimpse of the almost forgotten, muted beauty of the earth, perhaps to brush the cheek of their descendants.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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* The Greens are on fire – 126k members & counting – while Labour chants “Build, baby, build” & wonders why it sounds like Trump.
* Reform stumble.
* Farage sulks.
* Lucy Powell leads the Labour rebels. * Kemi Badenoch survives for now.

This week's news from the Muckrakers Arms
Pecksniff: How far can momentum take the Greens?
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
Signing prints on this late October day….
October 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
💥 Friday Shop Plug 💥
I'll be closing the shop next week, but I'll be back on Halloween at 2pm with the next batch of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed. Hoping next month I'll also be able to sort the new lino print I've been threatening since February...
💀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Two spooky lino prints and a copy of Tales Accursed a Folk Horror Anthology on an autumnal tabletop
October 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
My 2026 calendar is finally available! Links to buy in my profile. 🙏🥰🌀🌿
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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‘The Mermaid of Zennor’ linocut print.

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#BLOCTOBER2
A linocut print of a mermaid gazing into a mirror and in her other hand is a skull. Her figure is in a turquoise blue frame. There is a tan border surrounding her with shells and the words ‘Come with me, beneath the sea’.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
In this Great Transformation where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn to be Good Ancestors began really to speak the quiet part out loud?

accidentalgods.life/becoming-spi...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w Jamie Bristow

#RadicalCompassion
#Mindfulness
Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow
In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a future we'd be proud to leave behind began really to speak the quiet part out loud? What happens if we...
accidentalgods.life
August 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
New work underway for Old Chapel Gallery (Herefordshire). Exhibition opens on Saturday November 8th. Painted, engraved mouth blown glass.
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Feel so out of practice drawing. Here is a tree mari with some fungi and spider webs
A horse skull attached to a tree branch with branches covered in spider webs and dew and fungi near the skull
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
“Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse

accidentalgods.life/building-the...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#BeyondProfit
#RegenerativeLeadership
Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit
We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of wounded individuals wh...
accidentalgods.life
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
tamsintheshed.bsky.social
Post you from a different era.
I’m the mum btw! 😚
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM