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Tom Cherry • Bedfordshire, UK

Textile artist inspired by folklore, myth, magic and the macabre ✨🌞

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This is a great exploration of the Mayan use of cave systems and how they incorporated them into their religion and ceremonial practises. Well worth watching!

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Secrets Beneath the Maya: Lost Worlds and Ancient Tunnels | Underground Worlds | Documentary
YouTube video by space and science
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November 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀

"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
xphaiea.bsky.social
A team of archaeologists working high on the Aurlandsfjellet mountain plateau in Vestland County, Norway, has made a fantastic discovery: a remarkably well-preserved 1,500-year-old reindeer trapping system revealed by retreating ice.

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Archaeologist standing on ancient structure to capture reindeer preserved in ice
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Forest in Late Autumn,
Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.
Painting of forest in deep, autumnal colours and unleafed trees.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Raven dives into a whale’s mouth and builds a fire; he travels to a town of ghosts, who rob him blind; he teaches a perpetual loser to be the Greatest Gambler in the World...

Read the myths of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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'Wapping' (1941) by John Minton

(Imperial War Museums)
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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ʍɛȶǟʍօʀքɦɨǟ : phase 3

www.xphaiea.bigcartel.com

#xphaiea #metamorphosis #artdoll #art #softsculpture #surrealism
Art doll of a strange human/insect hybrid in bright clashing greens, yellows and purples with pink hair and three sets of eyes
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Collage, Nov. 2025

#illustration #artsky #collage #artistsofbluesky #art
Collage using an old biro illustration chopped together with offcuts from backing paper with random paint markings and shapes cut from an old black and white illustrated book
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.

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Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
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November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Science fiction is the mythology of modern technology." – Ursula K. Le Guin
#famousquotes #futurism
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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METAMORPHIA

Two new mini art dolls now available on my website

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#bugs #weirdart #goblincore #hybrid #insects
Two handmade art dolls with hybrid bug/human bodies
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Citizens of the Land of Mushrooms, C20th lithograph.
Twelve of the most prominent citizens of the land of mushrooms are depicted in this early 20th century lithograph. All are edible except (9) the deadly Fly Mushroom. (4) Coral Clavaria and (8) Parchment Lacatarius are edible when perfect, but when imperfect they are slightly poisonous and should only be dealt with by experts. The other mushrooms are (1) Shaggy Pholiota, (2) Puff Ball, (3) Dog Cortinarius, (5) Red Clavaria, (6) Violet Clavaria, (7) Meadow Mushroom, (10) Common Morel, (11) Magpie Mushroom, and (12) Yellow Chanterelle. The Puff Ball and the Morel are not, strictly speaking, mushrooms, but being close fungi relatives, have been invited to the convention.’
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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#supermoon #fullmoon
Photo of the full moon through the branches of a tree
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Some more recently collaged cards!

#collage #art #illustration
Handmade cards
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Art by • Mark Harrison
December 16, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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“Offrandet”
- Mixed Media

On Hahnemühle cold press 100% cotton 300 gsm / 140 lb watercolor paper

(Status: Available)

If interested DM me or message me through my website, link in bio.
“Offrandet” - Mixed Media On Hahnemühle cold press 100% cotton 300 gsm / 140 lb watercolor paper (Status: Available) If interested DM me or message me through my website, link in bio.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Hello Wednesday.
🖼️ Jill Barklem
An illustration from the children's book series Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem. It features a mouse-like character holding a pair of green, wing-like garments on hangers. The character is standing in a room with a wooden door and two framed pictures, and a large, bat-like shadow is cast on the wall behind it.
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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doodle made into a handmade card

#illustration #drawing
Handmade card
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Yes, here's the classic illo from Leo and Diane Dillon, a marvelous painting.
A succession of figures from the foreground: a woman with braided hair wears a necklace with a biohazard symbol. The woman behind her in ornate robes with plant patterns is placing a mask on her so that her eyes are in shadow. Two antennae rise from her headpiece which is made of delicate translucent wings. Behind those two is a wintery figure in fur robes and bound in white rope. A figure in black cloak and metal dog-like mask with long spikes on the top flanks the Snow Queen. Barely visible on the right is a woman in helmet with transparent visor and a futuristic many tiered city. The whole piece is bordered with a nouveau sun pattern radiating at the top.
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
Snickers bar and a metal whistle
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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the beast of tomorrows
Digital painting of a male sphinx. His lion half does not have any fur, is green in color, and on the surface of his skin are ornate etchings / embellishment. He has long, brown, wavy hair that bellows upward in the wind, and on his head is a white flower crown, adorned with shiny jewelry that hangs off his head. He has a sorrowful expression, with tears streaming down his piercing green eyes. His tail is long and he has pale white dove wings.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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𝗣𝗘𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗟𝗘𝗥 is a grotesque figure believed to haunt the river Tees. Similarly to the watery hag Jenny Greenteeth, she also lures children to their death with her bewitching hypnotic stare and long green hair.

#pegpowler #jennygreenteeth #ghouls #halloween #britishfolklore #artdolls
Goblinesque doll of Peg Powler
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Yellow Eye, a Forest Spirit 🌿

Handmade from textiles and found objects, she is a little beauty ready to be displayed on your walls.
See more pictures on my website
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#textileart #dollcreation #bsnm #artshop #art #handmade #fantasy
Little textile creature with a yellow Eye. She has found objects like snail shell, tree bark and flowers sewn on her.
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM