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Tea Francis
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Artist- taxidermist/fabricator/illustrator/jeweller 🔪✒️🔨
Arachnologist 🕷
Plant hoarder, appreciator & curator 🪴
Collector of the weird & old 🔮
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I’m reposting this so I can pin it for any new followers or curious folk.

This thread explains where the animals I work on as a taxidermist come from. I am always open to questions & I welcome respectful discussion from any viewpoint, so please feel free to ask me anything about my work, any time!
This week, as well as the bunny over the weekend, I have stuffed a zebra head and an Ayam Cemani rooster. I’m currently working on another mount that I can’t yet share, but it’s another challenge & I love those.

Please see my coming reply to this post for info re where the animals come from.
The BMW project is not without spidery influence… just in case anyone was concerned. I’m hand stitching gold webs for the interior/upholstery.
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Taxidermy shenanigans from the past couple of months or so… client work, not for sale.
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Last Saturday, proper work commenced on my car. Here’s a selection of images of me preparing it to be painted.
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Heyyyy! Checking in to say hi, see how you’re all doing, let you know I’m not dead & tell you how delighted I am to see that spiders & chaos reminded some of you of me 😂 Since I last posted, I’ve stuffed countless animals, & done something ridiculous that I’ve been wanting to do for like, 30 years.
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Im a couple of days late, but Nowruz Mubarak to all of my friends, Persian, not Persian & everything inbetween. May you find small joys amongst all of the chaos we’re surrounded by 🖤
March 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hello. I’m sorry I’m not very active on here at the moment. Real life is stressful, health isn’t great, just trying to keep busy & keep my brain out of trouble which, frankly, isn’t bloody easy. Anyway, I stuffed a hoopoe. It’s still drying.
March 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Today has been really good, but also annoying. I’ve had a full day back in my workshop for the first time since the start of January which felt incredible, and I got a lot done… but I ran into a couple of challenges & disappointments too.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Komodo dragon replica paint job. I did all of the colour work & details you see here by hand, including hand painting the eyes & finishing them with clear resin. The last image is a comparison between my reference and the painted cast.
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A few snakey goings on of late… first of all, we’ll start with this guy. Inti, my 4 year old Baron’s racer (Philodryas baroni). I’ve had him & my female for a little under a year and a half. The day he came home, he strike fed, shit & shed his skin, thus lulling me into a false sense of security. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Nanzome looking stunning. She’s been home for one month as of tomorrow. She’s fed spectacularly well each time she’s been offered. She’s bound to be due a shed soon & I can’t wait to see how she looks when she does! 😱😍
February 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I planted some sickeningly cool plants today. Platycerium ‘Pegasus’, and an array of tropical carnivores.
February 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
More hoopoe. Did an hour on the tail earlier but my thumb got really bad so had to stop.
February 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
After a month of not being able to do anything in my workshop due to the cold, I have decided that fuck it, I will just force it to work for me and do whatever I can to make it habitable. I have a heater, heated gloves/socks, blankets exist… I have too much to do to be sat about waiting for spring.
February 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s done. Replica dwarf crocodile paint job by yours truly.
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I did the resin work on the eyes today. To make them nice and glassy & croc-like. Now I’m finishing off colour detailing & applying protective coat as I go. Looking forward to seeing it finished later!
February 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I don’t know how, but I messed up my neck at some point between 8.30 when my alarm first went off, & 8.57 when I hit snooze for the third time 😂 I didn’t even move?! In any case, it’s bloody painful & I’m miserable. This time of year particularly fucking sucks for anyone with fibromyalgia.
February 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Irish elk antlers were assembled & base coated last week. Now I’m finishing them off. I’ve evened out the colour today, & applied texture. Once dry, I’ll be going over the whole thing with a wash to give it a bit of patina & protection & then they’re done! The span of this lot is 9 & a half feet.
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’ve been working with a collaborator on something very exciting for the past year and a half or so, and today we began a new phase of experimentation with this lovely Chinese elm bonsai tree!
February 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
After a rough few days inside my own brain, I’m feeling a bit more normal and with it today, so I celebrated by ordering sushi which I have just absolutely fucking demolished. Can confirm, that was an excellent form of self care. 10/10 will do again.
January 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Someone said y’all were missing snake content (that someone was me*).

(*and also my assumption is probably not true but whatever)
January 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Simon’s studio today: More progress on the Irish elk antlers, and the beginning of making a mould of a full size adult Komodo dragon model. I’m pretty excited about this dragon.
January 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ok, last of the cat, I promise. Bonus fallow buck that I also just completed. Back on replica Irish elk antler duty tomorrow 😎
January 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
More photos of the tabby cat. I’ll no doubt post even more later because we took proper photos of it but I’m too impatient to wait for them 😂
January 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Also made a bit more progress, chipping away at this hoopoe illustration.
January 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM