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Maria Strutz
@mariastrutz.bsky.social
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Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects.
Foxes, owls, stones and bones

I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts
https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
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The witch works with the season. When the year begins its slow striptease, she reads the language of the trees' wooden bones. Reads tomorrow in a fall of phyllomancy. When birds come to harvest high berries, auspicy is her share. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
A couple of charming carvings of owls by Inuit artist Tudlik (1890–1966) for #OwlishMonday

www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/art...
Photograph of a carving of an owl in the green stone serpentine. The owl has it's wings open and has very big eyes. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/owl-262798 Carving of an owl in the green stone serpentine. The owl has it's wings partially open and seems to be looking quizzical. https://firstarts.ca/artworks/3245-tudlik-1890-1966-kinngait-cape-dorset-owl-c.-1958-59/
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#SundayStonework
The lion footrest on the Tomb of Edward II, Gloucester Cathedral.
A sculpture of a lion on the tomb of Edward II. The king’s feet rest on the back of the lion.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"Or a screech owl" a haunting image on #OwlishMonday
🎨 Arthur Rackham illustration of the tale of 'Jorinda and Joringel', Grimm's Fairy Tales (1925)

#Halloween
An owl is perched on a bough bare of leaves. The silhouette of a castle is in the background, among dark woodlands. The gaze of the owl, although not fixed on the viewer, is powerful; its eyes are amber while the rest of the print is largely in darker browns
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#OwlishMonday 'Interior No. 133' by Jaco Putker (2021)

www.instagram.com/jacoputker/
Black and white photomontage of a room decorated with potted plants, a rug, and an old map of the world on the back wall. On the left is a giant owl (I think it's a Boobook owl) with a sign in front saying 'Please do not feed'. To the right two people look on, one with their back to us with a small rodent perched on top of the flat cap hey're wearing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Sunday. 3 of Cups.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fox looking through thorny brambles
up into a starry night sky 🎇
Yesterday's #whistpr prompt
a fox looking up from the bottom left corner to the right corner, through curved bramble branches with very sharp spikes, looking up into a night sky with lots of dotty stars and some constellations. Line drawing, black and white, Maria Strutz
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The council gathers...
Silhouette of seven starlings perched in a row on a television aerial against a pale, cloudy sky.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Last caw before October closes.
#art
Coffee painting of a white crow perched on a branch before the full moon.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Amen!
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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May I never grow too old to be interested in bits of stone & old china that I’ve found in the garden & elsewhere.

#PocketMuseum
#Geology #BlueAndWhiteChina #GardenTreasures
Collection of interesting little stones & a few bits of broken china, one with a blue and white railing that might be from the willow pattern bridge, one saying ‘Albany’, several of the stones show multiple textures together. All are laid out on a dark surface.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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An autumnal fox wandering through a rosehip thicket.
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
a fox wandering from right to left slightly at a diagonal and looking back at the viewer, surrounded by rosehips, a fossilized heart shaped sea urchin, Micraster, in front of the fox on their left. Linedrawing, watercolours, rosehip ink, black and white, shades of buff and orange brown red. Maria Strutz
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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‘There was a sense of intolerable loveliness, of brimming life, of rapture. The thousand faces lifted like a cloud. They heard the piping close. And so He came.’ — Algernon Blackwood, ‘The Touch of Pan’ (1917)

🎨Arnold Böcklin, ‘Idyll’ (detail), 1875.
A ruddy faced Pan plays his pipes between two pillars.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Some notes on the goddess Durgā: her battle with the demon Mahiṣa, a Durgā meditation, and the nine Navadurgās. (image source: Wikipedia).
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The Indian goddess Durgā, wearing a red sari and tiara, bearing her weapons in her eight arms, and sitting astride a lion. Mountain and trees in the background, the buffalo demon Mahiṣa lying at her feet.
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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#PseudofossilFriday
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This is one of my favorites!!! It's also often mistaken for fossils because it can form these dendritic patterns in rock. It's beautiful!!
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Rain and mist envelop #Hookland this morning. Field, river and mound emerge for brief moments, then fade back to obscurity. @hookland.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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A fox jumping over a tomb, jumping over the moon.
If you are lucky enough to witness such an event, you may choose to whisper important news to the fox:
the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, the fall of tyrants.
The news will be passed on to the clan
#FullMoon #FoxMoon #SuperMoon🦊🐾🌕
This image captures a glimpse of a Fox jumping over a full moon above a Neolithic tomb, three standing stones holding up a slab. There are foxgloves in the foreground, stars whirling around a full moon. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Autumn
Yellowing beech leaves float on the surface of a rippling stream.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Wallbridge Lock Sculpture, Stroud
(by Natasha Houseago)
A black and white photograph taken at night showing a wooden sculpture in the form of a large elongated head reminiscent of an idol. It stands beside a canal lock. The moon is visible just above the head to the left.
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A date for your diaries! Leeds' underground goth club returns! Sets running the gamut from OG post-punk to industrial techno, with special set from SOBORGNOST!!! (- recently seen supporting Cabaret Voltaire). I'lll put up a ticket link in the next few days! Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social !
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
For the lithic lookouts which adorn the tombs of Ashcourt Necropolis keep not a watch on the coming and goings of the dead, but rather maintain a surveillance of the living. For in those portions of the land ceded to the Breathless Empire, we are the trespassers. – #CLNolan
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Calling all bird loving artists! This month's bird is the Spotted Owlet. 🤎 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Nov 26th.

Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/

#birds #BirdWhisperer #art #owl
The spotted owlet (Athene brama) is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from North Pakistan to Southeast Asia. The upperparts are grey-brown, heavily spotted with white. The underparts are white, streaked with brown. The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow. There is a white neckband and supercilium. Sexes are similar. (from Wikipedia) Our reference photo has the owl perched in a tree, where two branches diverge. Body is in side profile, breast facing our left, and their head is turned to face us. In the background are more large tree limbs
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM