Cat Frampton
@catframpton.bsky.social
Dartmoor based artist and Farmer who believes land layering is possible - She/her - Team waxcap/dung beetle/nature - it’s always more complicated than that!
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For ten years, everyday, I’ve sketched the weather.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
So, having managed 10 years of daily* weather journal drawings I thought I’d start the new year showing some
This is not a resolution,and it won’t be a daily update, but here have a few days…
(The point of the sketching is not perfection, it’s just doing it/ trying to get the feel if the day down)
This is not a resolution,and it won’t be a daily update, but here have a few days…
(The point of the sketching is not perfection, it’s just doing it/ trying to get the feel if the day down)
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
So, having managed 10 years of daily* weather journal drawings I thought I’d start the new year showing some
This is not a resolution,and it won’t be a daily update, but here have a few days…
(The point of the sketching is not perfection, it’s just doing it/ trying to get the feel if the day down)
This is not a resolution,and it won’t be a daily update, but here have a few days…
(The point of the sketching is not perfection, it’s just doing it/ trying to get the feel if the day down)
For ten years, everyday, I’ve sketched the weather.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
December 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
For ten years, everyday, I’ve sketched the weather.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.
I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.
46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.
The wild hunt
So mid winter isn’t all twinkling lights and jolly feasts. There are darker tales to be told…
This year, here on the western hills of the uk, the sudden cold east wind, gusting with a hungry strength, has made the old dark stories of the wild hunt creep closer.
⬇️
So mid winter isn’t all twinkling lights and jolly feasts. There are darker tales to be told…
This year, here on the western hills of the uk, the sudden cold east wind, gusting with a hungry strength, has made the old dark stories of the wild hunt creep closer.
⬇️
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The wild hunt
So mid winter isn’t all twinkling lights and jolly feasts. There are darker tales to be told…
This year, here on the western hills of the uk, the sudden cold east wind, gusting with a hungry strength, has made the old dark stories of the wild hunt creep closer.
⬇️
So mid winter isn’t all twinkling lights and jolly feasts. There are darker tales to be told…
This year, here on the western hills of the uk, the sudden cold east wind, gusting with a hungry strength, has made the old dark stories of the wild hunt creep closer.
⬇️
Ah, almost midnight on Christmas Eve
Time for some Aidan Moffat ghost stories for Christmas, followed by Dylan Thomas.
Happy Christmas
Time for some Aidan Moffat ghost stories for Christmas, followed by Dylan Thomas.
Happy Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ah, almost midnight on Christmas Eve
Time for some Aidan Moffat ghost stories for Christmas, followed by Dylan Thomas.
Happy Christmas
Time for some Aidan Moffat ghost stories for Christmas, followed by Dylan Thomas.
Happy Christmas
Have you noticed that the dark solstice is when we as humans gather, eat, drink, give, laugh, love, for day after day?
We face the long nights & push them back together.
Like we are programmed to look for joy in the dark.
Resistance is community joy, based on sharing and light
Happy solstice
We face the long nights & push them back together.
Like we are programmed to look for joy in the dark.
Resistance is community joy, based on sharing and light
Happy solstice
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Have you noticed that the dark solstice is when we as humans gather, eat, drink, give, laugh, love, for day after day?
We face the long nights & push them back together.
Like we are programmed to look for joy in the dark.
Resistance is community joy, based on sharing and light
Happy solstice
We face the long nights & push them back together.
Like we are programmed to look for joy in the dark.
Resistance is community joy, based on sharing and light
Happy solstice
We hosted a wonderful event yesterday in our camping barn.
A dear friend and neighbour, off on his next adventure…
It was a honour and a privilege to be part of such a special day.
Calm seas and a fair wind J, you will be missed.
A dear friend and neighbour, off on his next adventure…
It was a honour and a privilege to be part of such a special day.
Calm seas and a fair wind J, you will be missed.
An American funeral on Dartmoor. Ceremony in an old cow barn, burial in the churchyard. Coffin made by boat builder son.
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We hosted a wonderful event yesterday in our camping barn.
A dear friend and neighbour, off on his next adventure…
It was a honour and a privilege to be part of such a special day.
Calm seas and a fair wind J, you will be missed.
A dear friend and neighbour, off on his next adventure…
It was a honour and a privilege to be part of such a special day.
Calm seas and a fair wind J, you will be missed.
Drawn a #heron.
Added some ink
In some lights it’s just a negative space, heron shaped. In others it’s a heron bold against the water.
#commisionsopen
#BuyArtFromArtists
Added some ink
In some lights it’s just a negative space, heron shaped. In others it’s a heron bold against the water.
#commisionsopen
#BuyArtFromArtists
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Drawn a #heron.
Added some ink
In some lights it’s just a negative space, heron shaped. In others it’s a heron bold against the water.
#commisionsopen
#BuyArtFromArtists
Added some ink
In some lights it’s just a negative space, heron shaped. In others it’s a heron bold against the water.
#commisionsopen
#BuyArtFromArtists
Ive been musing
Mind you, the boxes may be soon redundant and we will just be left with the maps… which is not ideal either (to put it mildly!)
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Mind you, the boxes may be soon redundant and we will just be left with the maps… which is not ideal either (to put it mildly!)
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Scribehound
www.scribehound.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Ive been musing
Mind you, the boxes may be soon redundant and we will just be left with the maps… which is not ideal either (to put it mildly!)
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Mind you, the boxes may be soon redundant and we will just be left with the maps… which is not ideal either (to put it mildly!)
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
@ecosystemengineer.bsky.social hi.
Have you seen this ? I thought it was your kind of research/subject and may interest you.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Have you seen this ? I thought it was your kind of research/subject and may interest you.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Late‐Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation consumption
Aim How much stronger would the effects of herbivorous mammals be in natural ecosystems if human-linked extinctions and extirpations had not occurred? Many mammal species have experienced range cont...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
@ecosystemengineer.bsky.social hi.
Have you seen this ? I thought it was your kind of research/subject and may interest you.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Have you seen this ? I thought it was your kind of research/subject and may interest you.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Cat Frampton
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Drew a peregrine
For a commission
It is judgy and slightly annoyed…
Message me if you also want a bird drawing (or want to gift one to someone for Christmas…)
For a commission
It is judgy and slightly annoyed…
Message me if you also want a bird drawing (or want to gift one to someone for Christmas…)
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Drew a peregrine
For a commission
It is judgy and slightly annoyed…
Message me if you also want a bird drawing (or want to gift one to someone for Christmas…)
For a commission
It is judgy and slightly annoyed…
Message me if you also want a bird drawing (or want to gift one to someone for Christmas…)
I wrote a thing about worry, moss, fertilisers, grazing livestock, carbon credits, agricultural intensification, government policy, regen and rewilding!
Mostly though it’s about waxcap fungi.
And deep worry.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Mostly though it’s about waxcap fungi.
And deep worry.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Scribehound
www.scribehound.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I wrote a thing about worry, moss, fertilisers, grazing livestock, carbon credits, agricultural intensification, government policy, regen and rewilding!
Mostly though it’s about waxcap fungi.
And deep worry.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Mostly though it’s about waxcap fungi.
And deep worry.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
A farmed landscape.
A semi wild landscape.
Home for cattle and sheep as well as a wealth of other things, from yellowhammers to lichens, from voles to fungi, from ravens to dor beetles.
Food and the wild, in the same place, at the same time.
#dartmoor
A semi wild landscape.
Home for cattle and sheep as well as a wealth of other things, from yellowhammers to lichens, from voles to fungi, from ravens to dor beetles.
Food and the wild, in the same place, at the same time.
#dartmoor
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A farmed landscape.
A semi wild landscape.
Home for cattle and sheep as well as a wealth of other things, from yellowhammers to lichens, from voles to fungi, from ravens to dor beetles.
Food and the wild, in the same place, at the same time.
#dartmoor
A semi wild landscape.
Home for cattle and sheep as well as a wealth of other things, from yellowhammers to lichens, from voles to fungi, from ravens to dor beetles.
Food and the wild, in the same place, at the same time.
#dartmoor
I do rather love autumn, especially on my patch of Dartmoor.
- growing food and looking after the biodiversity at the same time in the same place - not only possible but vital and quite achievable with a bit of a mindset shift.
- growing food and looking after the biodiversity at the same time in the same place - not only possible but vital and quite achievable with a bit of a mindset shift.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I do rather love autumn, especially on my patch of Dartmoor.
- growing food and looking after the biodiversity at the same time in the same place - not only possible but vital and quite achievable with a bit of a mindset shift.
- growing food and looking after the biodiversity at the same time in the same place - not only possible but vital and quite achievable with a bit of a mindset shift.
I think I am going to start calling this ‘Mr Icky and the chari-taint’
Like it’s some ludicrous kids book, rather than a whole swathe of environmental charities being deeply dystopian.
Better for my bloody pressure anyway.
Like it’s some ludicrous kids book, rather than a whole swathe of environmental charities being deeply dystopian.
Better for my bloody pressure anyway.
A question
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I think I am going to start calling this ‘Mr Icky and the chari-taint’
Like it’s some ludicrous kids book, rather than a whole swathe of environmental charities being deeply dystopian.
Better for my bloody pressure anyway.
Like it’s some ludicrous kids book, rather than a whole swathe of environmental charities being deeply dystopian.
Better for my bloody pressure anyway.
Drew a woodcock for a commission.
Why yes, yes I am taking bird drawing commissions at the moment…
Why yes, yes I am taking bird drawing commissions at the moment…
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Drew a woodcock for a commission.
Why yes, yes I am taking bird drawing commissions at the moment…
Why yes, yes I am taking bird drawing commissions at the moment…
A question
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A question
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
If a charity or group took money in the last two years from a vocal known anti-trans right wing Zionist should they be eyed with deep suspicion no matter who they are or how good the cause?
Or is it just me that finds that disgusting and a sign to have nothing to do with them at all?
Reposted by Cat Frampton
Beautiful
And
Doomed
Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold
Facing the idea of damage.
And
Doomed
Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold
Facing the idea of damage.
June 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Beautiful
And
Doomed
Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold
Facing the idea of damage.
And
Doomed
Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold
Facing the idea of damage.
Reposted by Cat Frampton
Break stuff
And it stays broken.
And it stays broken.
June 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Break stuff
And it stays broken.
And it stays broken.
Reposted by Cat Frampton
Smash things up and they remain smashed
No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.
No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.
June 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Smash things up and they remain smashed
No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.
No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.
Seems a fitting day to repost this.
Loss in a landscape
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Seems a fitting day to repost this.
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
God, #waxcaps are just fabulous aren’t they?
And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone
Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future
And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone
Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
God, #waxcaps are just fabulous aren’t they?
And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone
Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future
And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone
Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future
I’ve written a thing again
This time about ‘nature’
Not the thing (whatever that is) but the word.
I propose we stop using it and get a bit sharper with what we are trying to say…
And yes, I know that’s unhinged.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
This time about ‘nature’
Not the thing (whatever that is) but the word.
I propose we stop using it and get a bit sharper with what we are trying to say…
And yes, I know that’s unhinged.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Scribehound
www.scribehound.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I’ve written a thing again
This time about ‘nature’
Not the thing (whatever that is) but the word.
I propose we stop using it and get a bit sharper with what we are trying to say…
And yes, I know that’s unhinged.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
This time about ‘nature’
Not the thing (whatever that is) but the word.
I propose we stop using it and get a bit sharper with what we are trying to say…
And yes, I know that’s unhinged.
www.scribehound.com/countryside/...
Signs of recovery
These babies are from one of our hardest worked fields.
A field that may not have been intensified as fully as most but still was pumped up with fertilisers.
Four years ago we had one species of waxcaps, (Snowy One of the toughest) return
Then parrot and meadow
And now…
More!
These babies are from one of our hardest worked fields.
A field that may not have been intensified as fully as most but still was pumped up with fertilisers.
Four years ago we had one species of waxcaps, (Snowy One of the toughest) return
Then parrot and meadow
And now…
More!
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Signs of recovery
These babies are from one of our hardest worked fields.
A field that may not have been intensified as fully as most but still was pumped up with fertilisers.
Four years ago we had one species of waxcaps, (Snowy One of the toughest) return
Then parrot and meadow
And now…
More!
These babies are from one of our hardest worked fields.
A field that may not have been intensified as fully as most but still was pumped up with fertilisers.
Four years ago we had one species of waxcaps, (Snowy One of the toughest) return
Then parrot and meadow
And now…
More!