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Anna F. Walker
@spyglassart.bsky.social
• Artist/Illustrator
My art and prints 👉 http://spyglassillustration.com
• Opening a children’s bookshop in Edinburgh @spyglassbooks.bsky.social
• Co-owner of McNaughtan’s Bookshop
• Non-fiction book club runner

Art, books, history, politics
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Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com
Some very exciting news.

I’m opening a children’s bookshop!

Follow @spyglassbooks.bsky.social for updates. And if you’re in Edinburgh come to our pop-up in December to say hello and to support our budding business 👋

#Edinburgh #Booksky
Hello, world!

We are a new children’s bookshop which will open its doors in Edinburgh in 2026.

Much work is going on behind the scenes to make it happen, but in the meantime we are doing a pop-up to introduce ourselves to our lovely city and its community.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Life is but a dream.

#art #illustration
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Just found this early drawing of mine - an interpretation of the legend of king Canute and the waves.

I’d do a lot of things differently now, especially in the details, but I like where my mind was going.

#art
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The allure of a lighthouse.

#art #illustration
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thrilled to announce that by popular demand this lovely lobster lad is now a print available in my shop in A4 size (8.3 x 11.7”)

spyglassillustration.com/product/lobs...

He came out very well indeed. Love him.

#art
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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If only the evil capitalist mill owners would pay decent wages, Jip could have all the Bonios
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I need that Zohran beanie. Winters are chilly in Scotland.

#mymayor
Pulling the vote in NYC with @jvp.bsky.social pals Stephanie Fox and Beth Miller. 5 hours to go!
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
One of my booky drawings is now on a tote bag! It came out rather nicely I think.

It will soon be added to my website. Until then it’s available at @mcnaughtans.co.uk or DM me to order.
Bibliophiles, check out this hot new tote bag now available for purchase in our shop. Design by @spyglassart.bsky.social

#booksky
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This one’s for bibliophiles.

Loosely based on Edinburgh Castle.
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Isle of May lighthouse.

#art #scotland
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Catch of the day.

#art #illustration
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Dean Village.

The last in my series of drawings of Edinburgh neighbourhoods.

#art
November 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Prow.

Quite proud of the wood texture here.

#art #illustration
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Happy Samhain!
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Practicing colour blending, and this guy’s a perfect subject for it.

#art
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Something’s cooking.

#art #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Happy customer! 😃
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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'The Green Book.' (c1925) The art critic Frank Rutter writing about Harold Knight's work 'mingled memories of Whistler and Vermeer.' It contained a 'quiet mastery and exquisiteness rivalling the work of the 'perfect painter,' of 17thC Holland.'
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Lighthouse love.

#art #illustration
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It’s print delivery day! Beautiful job as ever from @print.work

The new Christmas cards, the Good Boy cards and A4 prints, as well as Prow in A3 size are now all available in my online shop spyglassillustration.com/shop/

#art #illustration
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Couldn’t resist starting an audiobook of Lea Ypi’s ‘Indignity’ after listening to her talk about it on @ppfideas.bsky.social

Even though I’m in the middle of another brilliant book. I’ve promised myself not to do that, but if that one is in paper format & this one’s audio it’s not cheating, right?
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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What a treasure! Samuel John Milton Brown also worked in watercolours . . .
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM