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John Altringham
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Scientist, conservationist, mountain-lover, artist. Happiest outdoors.
https://johnaltringham.co.uk
Pinned
Mainly mountains. Mainly monochrome.
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This, by the way, is when I first started writing about it. The TLS, 2014. A great deal, for me, followed from this. richarddsmyth.com/2017/07/07/t...
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great Close Scar, Malham, Yorkshire Dales
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I’m a printmaker/draughtsperson.
I am inspired by structures - haunting remnants of industry, echoes of warfare, or architectural oddities that exist on the fringes of functionality, and often on the fringes of collective memory. I love to draw, whether it’s on paper, canvas or print plates. #art
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Hiroto Norikane - Persimmons - Red Sunset Sky, Evening Glow
#ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Metamorphic rocks of Faraid Head, Sutherland, NW Scotland. Moine Thrust Zone Mylonites Complex.
A visual invitation to dive below the thin veneer of sand and follow the geology into the crust.
Photo, watercolour and a monochrome photo - an engraving?
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Very pleased to report that my wood engraving "Oak" has been selected for the 88th annual exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. The exhibition will tour the UK in 2026, starting at the Bankside Gallery, London in February.
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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inkwyrm.com - thankfully AI can't (yet) make etchings.
October 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Work in progress, watercolour autumn, for my sister. 80x60cm.
The paintbrush on the ceramic rest and the leaf to the right of them are real, given away by their shadows. Painted leaves will all have painted shadows to pop them out of the paper and bring them to life, or in this case, senescence.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Always painting Inchcailloch, Balmaha bay
October 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A stormy autumn day on the Northumberland coast. Dunstanburgh Castle and Embleton Bay. Photo, watercolour and wood engraving print. From the archives - walks and wild weather currently off limits, hopefully not for too long.
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.

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@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Glasgow’s Burnfield bakery window
September 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Watercolour, 26x10cm. Looking towards Cape Wrath from Faraid Head, Balnakeil Beach, Scotland. A sea fog or "haar" has rolled in over the coast to our west while we bask in warm sunshine.
September 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Watercolour sketch, 15x7.5 cm.
September 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Machair and morning mist, again. Watercolour, 25x15cm.
September 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Tried many times to capture the atmosphere of a Hebridean shore under a grey sky, before the morning mist has cleared. Somehow the beach and the machair still glow and the sea somehow still looks tropical. Yesterday, I think I just about cracked it.
#watercolour #art #Scotland #Hebrides #landscape
September 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Watercolour 26x15 cm. Mt Whitney, Sierra Nevada, CA.

Persuaded by yesterday's quick sketch to take a little more time and care over a larger version. More often than not I prefer the quick sketch but not this time.

#mountains #art #watercolour #granite
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Mid-morning walk on Ilkley Moor, heather in full bloom.
It's warm, windless and humid, perfect for a Flying Ant Day - millions and millions of mating ants throughout a 10km walk.
August 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Afternoon walk in the woods. Tree-dwellers: chicken in the woods fungus and artichoke, cherry and knopper gall wasps on oak
August 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
From the garden.
July 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Early morning walk on Ilkley Moor before the weather had settled on a plan for the day. July, but we have late summer colours already.
July 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
First test print of a new wood engraving - a wren singing on a tree stump. Above it, a sonogram of part of its song.
July 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wood engraving in progress - singing wren. The sonogram (frequency and intensity v time), like the bird, is reversed so that it prints the right way.

#WoodEngraving #birds #nature #art #PrintMaking #BirdSong
July 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Morning walk on Ilkley Moor, already hot. A good day for butterflies, which included, clockwise from top left: ringlet, small copper, small skipper and small heath.
Now sitting in the shade at home, following the test match on the internet.
July 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM