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Kathryn Garner
@kathryngarner.co.uk
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Artist. I make Cell Paintings, and I write too - mostly about cells, bacteria and/or engineering biology. https://kathryngarner.co.uk
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Finished!!!! 🎉

We loved doing this moth puzzle by @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social

Buy one here
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Perhaps I can have my drawing board back now 🤣

🐡 🎨 🖼️
Complete 1000 piece puzzle of coloured moths around a lightbulb
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Do you Secret Santa? I've just added some fantastic biology-inspired #secretsanta bundles to my exCELLent Holiday Shop!

Ready-to-ship. Shop before 1st December
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🐡 🎨 🖼️
#nephsky #pathsky #medsky #biosky
A wooden Organoid Holiday Decoration held up by a hand from its bottom left corner. The decoration has been printed from a painting of a kidney organoid, worked into with elements of an oil rig - particularly cranes make the organoid spiky - and platforms, windows.
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Working on some castle pictures for my next project and I can't escape the feeling that this drawing in progress of Chepstow Castle looks like Sid, the sloth from Ice Age! 🤣
Drawing of a plan of Chepstow Castle. Grey-purple watercolour fills the spaces between the walls, which are uncoloured paper (white). Sid the sloth from the film Ice Age
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You'll get one of these stickers from me if you back our 3-way cross-collab! They feature the Hooded Pitohui, a bird in New Guinea that carries poison in its skin and feathers targeting the nervous system 🐡 🎨
Orange and black Hooded Pitohui against a jungle of nerve cells. Featured on a stack of stickers.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Less than 5 days til the Backerkit Holiday Market! Still time to get one of these #spheroid stickers free by registering 🐡 🎨

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These little aggregations of cells are used to test new medicines. Being 3D they are more like the human body than flat models used before.
Little aggregations of cells called spheroids. Drawn in black biro and shown here as a collection of identical small stickers with a brown paper background.
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We are!!! It has a lovely texture and we love the colours! Just not looking forward to all the white and grey bits!! 😄
Puzzle featuring lots of different brightly coloured moths, in progress.
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I have NEW stickers too that I'm giving away as freebies

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky #biosky
Four 5 cm (2") stickers, clockwise from top left: Spheroid Cells Sticker, Pomegranate Sticker, Mycoplasma Bacteria Sticker and Hooded Pitohui Neurons Sticker.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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NEW! A wooden Holiday Decoration of a ball of cells sometimes called a mini-organ or more usually, an #organoid! Here I've imagined an organoid as a self-contained structure, an oil rig with all its working people parts at sea.

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky
Unusual and irregular shape painting. Ball of cells in soft blue-green and dark purple, with jagged protrusions with yellow highlights (crane-type structures, as you would see on a building site), and compartment-type structures like rooms or offices highlighted in white.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Learning about cells feeds back into my art, and these days I weave meaning into my paintings. The Kidney Slice paintings combine a sense of the kidney as an organ - a site that filters the blood and removes the waste our body no longer needs.

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky
Four bright and glossy rectangle magnets featuring the Kidney Slice paintings. From left to right, Kidney Slice + Water Treatment Plant, Kidney Slice + Cafetiere Plunger, Kidney Slice #3, Kidney Slice + Liverpool Docks.
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The @backerkit.com Holiday Market launches in 10 days and to say we're excited is a massive understatement!!!

There'll be another chance to buy magnets featuring my Cell Paintings. Making these sparked my curiosity and led me to train to be a Scientist!

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky
Four bright and glossy rectangle magnets featuring paintings of cells. Clockwise from top left: Small Brown Cell Drawing Magnet, Black Angry Cells Magnet, Orange Cell Drawing Magnet, Purple Cell Drawing Magnet.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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I am also very excited to be collaborating with the super talented @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social and @annieshaoart.bsky.social for the upcoming first ever @backerkit.com Holiday Market!!

I'll be giving away my new sticker of a poisonous hooded pitohui in a jungle of neurons if you back all 3 of us 🐡
Orange and black hooded pitohui against a jungle of nerve cells. The poison carried by this bird is a neurotoxin.
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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You'll bag a FREE bacteria sticker if you buy from my exCELLent Holiday Shop in the first 48 hours!

Plus sign up here for an extra pre-launch follower freebie!!
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#artsky #sciart #illustration #scicomm #painting #pathsky #medsky #bioart #biosky
Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper printed as a 5cm sticker.
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Found this old painting of a pomegranate this morning - making my new #organoid Cell Paintings has reminded me of it. It's funny the work you keep versus the things you throw away.

Holiday Shop coming up - register your interest 🐡
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A slice through a pomegranate painted loosely in pink, orange and red acrylic paint on paper.
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Ok, organoid painting day 2 and I must keep remembering that you don't know what something will look like until you make it!! I abandoned yesterday's painting and started smaller, more controlled. It's not finished yet but I'm very pleased 😁

It's a #kidney #organoid mash-up with an oil rig 🤣🐡
Acrylic paint on paper painting of a kidney organoid (ball of cells) mash up with an oil rig. The darks are maroon and the lights are pale blue-green, with the mid-tones in-between.
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Enjoying pushing paint around this afternoon making some #kidney organoid holiday decorations.

Click here to register your interest
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Everyone needs #organoid holiday decorations, right? #sciart
Ball of cell-like structures, toothpaste green with mauve background. Cobalt blue and crimson accents - the blue is probably nuclei.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#spheroids can vary considerably in size and shape, yet to be used in drug discovery, they must be as consistent as possible to produce meaningful results.

I'm turning this #illustration into Holiday Decorations - watch this space! 🐡 🎨 #biosky 🎄❄️
An illustration of approximately 13 spheroids, small floating aggregates of cells, that can be used at scale in the lab to test medicines in development. Watercolour and black biro on paper.
October 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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What a lot of magnets!!!!! 🐡
Photograph of assorted rectangle magnets printed with images of brightly coloured Cell Paintings
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I'm not sure how many of these I'll manage, but I felt inspired by the first #invertober2025 prompt -

So here's my Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) with its tangly tentacles!

Watercolour and pastel pencil on paper, A4.

#invertober #sciart
Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica). The bell is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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And flicking through images for inspiration. I had thought pancreas next, keeping on the theme of #pathology images as a starting point, and I found this from an old sketch book. I wonder if I've made #pancreas work before. I remember thinking it looks like underground caves 🐡
Pencil and felt-tip pen sketch of a cross-section through a body tissue. Colours are magenta, turquoise and blue, with red circles which are probably cell nuclei. Could be a map of underground caves. Handwritten note reads: CELL /sel/ n small room esp. in monastery or prison; cavity or compartment in honeycomb etc.; Biol. unit of structure of organic matter; portion protoplasm usu. enclosed in membrane; group as nucleus of political activity; vessel containing electrodes for current-generation or electrolysis.
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Thanks Jess! I can't believe we're in the final 6 and a half hours! It's been incredible.

Here's my moth sticker that you'll get if you back both our campaigns. A setaceous hebrew character moth on a background of plant cells.

#sciart
Setaceous Hebrew Character moth on a background of plant cells as seen under a microscope. The cells are drawn with green biro and could be an aerial view of a city.
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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'Kidney Slice + Water Treatment Plant'

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#sciart #nephsky #scicomm #medsky #artsky #illustration #painting
Abstract painting in brown and blue inspired by a histology image of a kidney slice. An aerial view of large circular sedimentation tanks from a water treatment plant is incorporated.
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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'Kidney Slice + Cafetiere Plunger'

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#sciart #scicomm #nephsky #medsky #artsky #illustration #painting
Abstract painting in brown and blue inspired by a histology image of a kidney slice. Edge of a cafetiere plunger is incorporated - looks like a long coiled spring.
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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'#Kidney Slice #3'

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#sciart #nephsky #medsky #artsky #illustration #scicomm #painting
Abstract painting in orange, purple and blue, inspired by a histology image of a kidney slice
September 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Introducing four new #Kidney Cell Paintings!

It's the final week of the campaign, so I'm adding new paintings as magnets PLUS an exclusive opportunity to purchase the original art.

'Kidney Slice + Liverpool Docks'

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#sciart #artsky #nephsky
Abstract painting in blue and pink inspired by a histology image of a kidney slice. Shapes from an aerial view of Liverpool docks have been incorporated.
September 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Mothy cross-collab freebies!

Jess @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social and I have teamed up as part of our @backerkit.com Super League of Science campaigns! So if you back both of our projects, then you get 2 super special stickers, absolutely free!

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#sciart #artsky
Setaceous Hebrew Character moth on a background of plant cells as seen under a microscope. The cells are drawn with green biro and could be an aerial view of a city.
August 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM