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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 34m

Meet Judith Westrup who will be taking part in For the Love of Print. Judith makes wonderfully atmospheric linoprints of the Kentish countryside. Do come along to the Assembly Rooms Faversham on Saturday 1st November to see more of Judith's work!

Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 2d

Come along to the East Kent Artists' Open Houses at the Grain Store Studio today and be the first to see my Snowy Night at the Cinema Cards!! Available in Blue or Pink. Take the Brenley Lane exit off the Brenley Corner Roundabout on the A2 and follow the signs!!

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 2d

I think I feel the same.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a wider question than social media. In my experience IRL people very rarely offer an explanation for their behaviour, including ostracising people. I can't really decide if this would be hugely helpful or hugely unhelpful in keeping the world turning.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 3d

We're all ready for you at the Grain Store Studio for East Kent Artists' Open House. Here today and tomorrow 10-3. It's a beautiful location and there are five artists all with very different work to peruse! From the Brenley Roundabout turn onto Brenley Lane then follow the signs.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 3d

Chough hunting on the White Cliffs of Dover take 2. Partial success...saw and heard Choughs in flight a-high, but did not manage to get any photos. But, just look at this magnificent honking and cronking Raven I saw and photographed!! King of the Corvids!! Very happy!

A Raven with its beak open making a honking noise on the edge of a white cliff.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 4d

Come and see the print and us at the Grain Store Studio just outside Faversham this weekend, take the Brenley Lane off Brenley Corner roundabout and follow the signs! We're open 10-3 both days. Printers, Potters, Crocheters, Basket Makers we've got it all!

Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 4d

Fresh batch of Oyster Bay House linoprints printed and thankfully dry, all ready for East Kent Artists' Open Houses this weekend.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 5d

Introducing Dawn Cole who will be participating in For the Love of Print. Dawn works in many different print methods including Engraving, Etching, Cyanotype and Mono. Her most recent work is a project to record her late Mother's artificial flowers collection in beautiful hand coloured engravings.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 5d

I found out that a relative of mine was hung by the Executioner Pierrepoint. After writing that sentence, I'm not sure it counts.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 6d

Meet Catriona Clayson at For the Love of Print Fair on 1st November at the Assembly Rooms Faversham. Catriona is an Artist Printmaker and Print Technician who works predominantly in Screen, Riso and Relief Print.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 7d

A fascinating connection was Gavin Maxwell, the author of Ring of Bright Water. He lived a reclusive life in Scotland with his pet otters, and his personal life was marred by challenges, including his illegal homosexuality and a complicated, unrequited (by him) love affair with poet Kathleen Raine.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 7d

This book is exactly the kind of nature writing I love - it's a comprehensive exploration of the otter's behavior, its relationship with humans, and the author's personal experiences. It's also filled with vivid descriptions of landscapes and intriguing cultural connections.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 7d

After encountering wild otters in Norfolk, I've become thirsty for knowledge about them, so typically for me I've bought a few books. I've just finished reading Otter Country. While reading, I've been working on a linocut design of an otter, which I'm still refining.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 7d

One more layer to go and this batch of the edition will be finished just in time for East Kent Artists' Open Houses kicking off this weekend - thankfully the brochure photo wasn't mis-information!

Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 8d

Meet Josh Taplin a recent graduate of UAL Camberwell who works in Mono, Lino and Riso Print and will be taking part in For the Love of Print. Come along to see more of wonderful Josh's work.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 9d

I've seen them in Cornwall most years and Pembrokeshire in May last year! I'm trying to see the newly re-established ones in Kent.

Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 9d

To Dover to observe cliffs and seek Choughs. No Choughs, but plenty of Jackdaws found. Apparently the Chough activity is focused around the Castle so I'm planning a visit there very soon.

A view across fields and trees to Dover Castle.

A path along the cliffs and part of the white cliffs of Dover and sea.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 10d

New! Snowy Night at the Cinema linoprint. Inspired by a night at this this cinema with my love seeing Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. The end of the film was met with joyful applause and as we stepped out into the night snow flurries fell. It felt like we too were in a film handmadebyhaggy.etsy.com

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 11d

Single handedly responsible for the Riso Revolution in Faversham, of course Goose Studio will be taking part in For the Love of Print. Sarah will be bringing her own work, plus the work of some of the Riso clubbers! Come and learn more on 1st November at Assembly Rooms Faversham.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 12d

Must remember to always turn to drawing. Feeling bored? Draw. Feeling ill? Draw. Feeling sad? Draw. It always makes me feel better.

A pencil drawing of an Eurasian Otter under water.

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 13d

So happy to have the lovely Uli Jaeger at For the Love of Print. Uli makes magical prints using so many print methods: Screen, Riso, Mono, Etching, Aquatint, she certainly deserves her place at the Print Fair!! Come along on November 1st to see more!

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 15d

...Now living by the sea my imaginary world of sea dwelling folk has emerged. Aubrey Beardsley’s monochromatic line fascinates me, the form and flow. I am now exploring these lines for myself."

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 15d

In her own beautiful words: "My interest and practice in printmaking has bought me in the last years to Lino. I have had a lasting fascination with the illustrations by Arthur Rackham and have collected Victorian seaside postcards for many years....

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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 15d

Very excited to have Jo Oakley taking part in For the Love of Print. Do come along to Assembly Rooms Faversham on 1st November to see more of her work!

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