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Kim Tillyer - witchmountain
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Artist, illustrator and part time bookseller at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere. Author of Beginner's Guide to #Cyanotype - Search Press 2024
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I love ours ( photos from recent night out in the mist) but it can be temperamental and we were nervous of using it in the summer, even on lake shore. I have been glad of it during power cuts!
October 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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My most popular recent Instagram post is this flaming marshmallow on a stick, not the art I spent hours making 😏... still, when seen together like this they do have matching eerie and Autumnal colour schemes.
Flaming marshmallow on a stick in front of a moody, misty lake with Canadian canoe. Two cyanotype prints with embroidered details. An owl with yellow and orange flowers and a portrait of a young woman. In the background the room is dark and lit by a warm glowing light.
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Cumbria Printmakers Out of Ink exhibition opens at the Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth tomorrow with an evening PV.
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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My book is being reprinted just as new ones on the same subject are hitting the shelves & it's #IndieBookshopWeek ! New stock is due in August but meanwhile please support your local bookshop (& help this artist) by pre-ordering Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype. #BooksAreMyBag #SummerBooks
A book lies on the grass in dappled sunlight under some paper bunting. Beginners Guide To Cyanotype has a blue and white cover made up of a patchwork of cyanotype prints
June 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Book Birthday! Has it really been a year? ( it feels like more!)
I'm doing a giveaway thing on Instagram even though I swore I wouldn't.
A blue and white cyanotype cardboard cake with white flowers and a silver candle sits in sun dappled woodland under some miniature cyanotype bunting A picture of Kim, in a blue top, sitting in woodland with cardboard cake and a copy of her book. Shades of green, blue and white.
May 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Sitting in the garden under a magic hat which transports me back to all the gardens I've ever loved.
May 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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...and then there was my inability to resist buying more books, a hazard of working at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social 🙂 I will be reading these in the sunshine today before heading off to the #GreatPrint10 exhibition opening this evening, hoping for red dots on prints & sales of MY book! 🤞
A pile of books on a garden table including Judith Rosema, Plant and Ink Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse and proof copies of Lally Macbeth, The Lost Folk and Jenn Ashworth, The Parallel Path
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Treat number 2 at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social was the proof copy of @lallymacbeth.bsky.social's #TheLostFolk @faberbooks.bsky.social (June) - I'm so excited for this & not just because Lally is the niece of my best friend so she's practically family!
Proof copy of Lally Macbeth's book The Lost Folk, standing on the bookshop desk
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Yesterday's bookshop treats @samreadbookseller.bsky.social included a visit from @tompalmerauthor.bsky.social, (it's always so lovely to catch up with him & yesterday I was tempted to join him as he headed up to Easdale Tarn, the setting for part of #AngelOfGrasmere)
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The author Tom Palmer signing copies of his book, Angel of Grasmere inside Sam Read Bookseller, bookshop. The covers of two of Tom Palmer's books Secret FC shows two children playing football and Angel of Grasmere shows a girl and a man at Easdale Tarn, Grasmere.
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Come to Rheged and buy some art ? Buy my art? Feed the artists instead of the machine!
#printmaking #Cumbria #handprinted
Poster, in black , yellow and grey, for the Great Print 10 exhibition at Rheged, Penrith which opens on April 4th. The imager is of a raven in a crown with a speech bubble saying " I am exhibiting"
March 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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It's been a good week for author visits at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social , yesterday Cumbrian writer @zoeleawriter.bsky.social called in with proofs of her new thriller #CloserThanSheThinks , out this June @littlebrown.bsky.social
Author Zoe Lea standing in the sunshine in front of the bookshop window, holding her novel
March 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Lovely to meet @adberginwriter.bsky.social this morning when he called in to @samreadbookseller.bsky.social to sign copies of #TheWickedOfTheEarth - a historical novel set in Newcastle during the witch trials of the 1650s
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The author AD Bergin and his dog outside the bookshop holding a copy of his book
March 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The art and craft sections at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social are bursting with inspiration!
#artbooks #creativeinspiration
5 shelves of books about creativity, from photography to paper making 5 book shelves of art and architecture books
March 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Post you as a kid
Black and white photograph of a girl drawing in a garden
March 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A new exhibition by #CumbriaPrintmakers opens on the 19th. I saw some very interesting work waiting to be hung when I delivered mine on Sunday. Great cafe too so worth a trip out to the interestingly named Unthank.
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#printmaking #LakeDistrict #DaysOutInCumbria
Poster for a print exhibition March 19 - May 17. Image is a print of Cumbrian fells and Lake in shades of green and grey by Glenn Tomkinson
March 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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⭐️ quote repost with your art that has stars 💫
3 images of blue and white cyanotype greetings cards. 1.a bear finding a fallen star, 2. a girl hugging a polar bear and 3. a dove with hand embroidered olive branch
March 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Some bits of blue. I'm patching old things together to try to make something new.
A patchwork of blue and white cyanotype prints on fabric including an image of a Lapwing
March 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Currently at work at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social trying not to frighten the browsers with my hoots of laughter & occasional sobs of recognition. My babies might be in their 30s now but this still feels raw & real. I wish I'd written it! @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
A book, "Cry When the Baby Cries" by Becky Barnicoat, stands in the desk at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere
March 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Not what it says in the box sadly! Today's task has been folding & packing 300 greetings cards ready to deliver next week for #GreatPrint10 next in April. Can't wait 'til April? Find them at witchmountain.co.uk 🙂
A cardboard box in the foreground has "Afternoon Tea with Prosecco" scribbled on it in marker pen 3 cyanotype greetings cards featuring an owl, hare and swan are set in a table with Lake District fells in the background
March 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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If you happen to use Instagram or Facebook it's not too late to enter the giveaway competition to win a copy of both these inspiring books (mine & @inkydogstudio.bsky.social's) www.instagram.com/p/DFr9IUhKtd...
#printmaking #artbooks #SearchPress
Two books, Nature Imprinted and Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype, standing on a wall in the Lake District, with a white cottage and winter trees in the background Two books, Nature Imprinted and Beginner's Guide to Cyanotype, standing on a wall in the Lake District, with Sone Arthur fell in the background
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Ooh look at the lovely bookshop post from @postalpathsguy.bsky.social ! Such a shame Royal Mail stuck the horrible postage label over the vintage stamp-some people have no visual sense! Alan's new book about rural postal paths is out soon @letterappsoc.bsky.social
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Handwritten envelope with a painting of a post box Handwritten envelope with a painting of a rural post box
February 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Too cute newt found in the kitchen at Loweswater last year.
Tiny baby newt on the kitchen floor
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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A studio day, printing cyanotypes for #GreatPrint10 in April
Studio table where a cyanotype print is being developed with a UV light. The shelves behind show print samples, jars of feathers and fabric swatches Detail of a cyanotype print of a barn owl A barn owl cyanotype print hanging on the line to dry. The sunlight has cast a slanting rainbow across the room
January 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Hare here
January 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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If you see this post, or quote repost a 'bridge'
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Watercolour by William Tillyer. Reflections on the Esk 2019. Blues and greens with simplified bridge defined by a curving blue shadow
January 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM