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Tamsin Wilson

@tamsinwilson.bsky.social

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She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. No AI.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · Feb 6

Wassail WIP - Green man jacket 26/01/24. Drawings of common leaves from England & Jamaica on fabric patches.

Here's to thee, old apple tree,
That blooms well, bears well.
Let's have hat fulls, and cap fulls,
And three bushel bag fulls,
And little heaps of apples under the stair.

Was hail!!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3h

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 3h

‘Hand of Glory’ linocut.

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#BLOCTOBER2

A carved linocut plate of a ‘Hand of Glory’ candle with a Pfeil cutter alongside it.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · Jan 7

Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 3h

I'm always updating this. Let me know if I'm missing any UK and Ireland folklore, folk dance, music, folklorist, folk horror people. And have a look see if there's anyone you want to follow if you're embracing this spooky time of year. (Or if you're spooky all year round.)

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 3h

Newgate Prison loomed large in London's history, before its demolition in 1902. How did this prison gain such a fearsome reputation? How has it survived well beyond its early 20th-century demolition? Let’s find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!

pod.co/fabulous-fol...

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 4h

I adore this ghost ridden land 🦇

#ghosts #Shropshire #paranormal #Folklore

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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John @maenhir.bsky.social · 4h

Boscawen Ros
#StandingStoneSunday

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 4h

Omg that's so cute.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h

I can only assume the summoning circle was breached, yet again...

www.filthyluker.org/art-attacks/...

large inflatable octopus tentacles emerging from a multi story building, coming out of windows

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 5h

I posted Penrhos Feilw last week, so here is the stone row in #Pembrokeshire called Parc y Meilw (literally 'park of the dead'). Unlike the former, Parc y Meilw is bloody difficult to photograph because they are buried in a hedge with an ugly farm gate stuck between them. [Cont:
#StandingStoneSunday

One grey pillar stone rises to the left of the picture. A hedge of gorse and a farm gate separates it from a similar stone to the right.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 5h

Early morning walk today. No regrets. Though the fog was more like a mist, I'll take it.

Portrait colour photo of two trees in a hedgerow at dawn. The orange rising sun is between them, with misty pinks and yellows in the sky. In front of the hedgerow is a green misty field covered in dew. At the very top of the photo is dark silhouette of a leafy branch of a tree, arching over and framing the scene.

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 5h

Also I'm in love with the house in the mist. Woman in black?

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 5h

🔥 Yessss. You absolutely will. Just try and enjoy new creative things and don't worry about the result. You will get there. I still think the tree and chainsaw plan will work 😅 (also I want a go).

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 5h

*levitating

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 7h

Drumtroddan Standing Stones, near Monreith. A row of possibly once four or five stones, aligned north east/south west. Two of the stones now lay fallen, with just a single stone, the eastern-most still standing.
#StandingStoneSunday #Scotland #blackandwhitephotography

Black and white photo of a tall standing stone, with two others fallen on the grass in the foreground. With a dark sky overhead.

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 6h

Stones in the mist – Tregeseal circle entirely cut off from Kenidjack common and the carn on the skyline invisible. At times like these, the danger of beguilement by unnatural lights and shifting paths grows, and stumbling pixie-led into the otherworld feels entirely possible … #StandingStoneSunday

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h

Derwent village’s drowned church in Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire

two people looking at a church spire above the water level of a reservoir

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 22h

For these spooky times from the times when I felt capable of doing spooky illustrations

An illustration of a black cat taking a stroll around a suburb of America at Halloween. Pumpkins, white sheet ghosts outside wooden houses and a crow looks down at it all from the roof of a house. A starry sky. Black crosshatch pen and rolled printmaking ink on white paper. Pencil drawing outlines underneath the ink.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Obsessed with the vivid autumnal colours of the blackberry leaves at the moment.

Portrait colour photo of an autumnal blackberry leaf on the turn. It looks flame like. The middle is bright yellow, then orange, then postbox red and burgundy at the tip. It has lime green veins running through it. The leaf is in front of a pale wooden fence.

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 1d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Portal 6. Somewhere in Cornwall.

Colour portrait photo from inside a dark cave. The floor is covered in sand and there are footprints in it. The irregular stone walls are wet and shiny. In the middle is the entrance to the cave, an uneven natural rocky archway leading to a beach. The cave is so dark that the outside is over exposed and bright.

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