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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 5d

A stormy autumn day on the Northumberland coast. Dunstanburgh Castle and Embleton Bay. Photo, watercolour and wood engraving print. From the archives - walks and wild weather currently off limits, hopefully not for too long.

Colour photo. Ruined castle on a headland behind waves breaking on a beach. Spray from waves swept back by strong gale. All under a dark, cloudy sky with sunlight almost breaking through.

Watercolour based on previous and similar photos.

Print in black ink from a wood engraving of the same scene.

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David J Lintern @davidlintern.bsky.social · 5d

Superb bit on the Natural Capital racket and the Kinrara sell out

parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/04/o...

Oxygen Conservation's purchase of BrewDog's Lost Forest at Kinrara - parkswatchscotland

BrewDog’s sale of Kinrara, the estate near Aviemore which it purchased for £8,800,000 in December 2020, and the announcement by Oxygen Conservation earlier this week that it had purchased it (they hav...

parkswatchscotland.co.uk

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Richard Geraint Evans @gpstrees.bsky.social · 6d

Work in progress. The #Nymans cedar.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 9d

lovely artistic stilin'
buy John's stuff!!
give him a follow!!!
share his work by reposting!!!!

John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.

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@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!

Wood engraving print in black ink. A steep woodland path over tree roots leads to a stile in a broken fence. Beyond, a field, a tree and open sky.

Wood engraving print in black ink. Four thick curvy pine tree trunks dance on the edge of moorland, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A narrow, rocky mountain arête, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A bold male stonechat watches me from an unfurling bracken frond as I cross his path on my way to a stile in a drystone wall.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! One of so many things I have time for since retiring from academic science...

John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

If circumstances had been different we'd live there now. However, with Ilkley Moor on our doorstep we can hardly complain.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

We have spent time in NW Scotland almost every year for over 40 years, so know it well too. A spiritual home if not a physical one.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for the repost and the enthusiastic support!

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 9d

Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.

johnaltringham.co.uk

@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!

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Wil Freeborn @freeborn.bsky.social · 14d

Glasgow’s Burnfield bakery window

A window of a bakery with shelves filled with croissants, buns, cakes a tenement building is also in the reflection

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 15d

Watercolour, 26x10cm. Looking towards Cape Wrath from Faraid Head, Balnakeil Beach, Scotland. A sea fog or "haar" has rolled in over the coast to our west while we bask in warm sunshine.

Coastal watercolour. Gentle, wind-blown, turquoise waves break on a white sand beach. The headland on the right is bathed in sunshine, that on the left enveloped in fog which sits low on the sea right across the back of the sketch.

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 16d

The Equinox gales failed overnight, leaving us to wander in the stillness.
South Wick, Papay, this morning.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 23d

Watercolour sketch, 15x7.5 cm.

Watercolour of thin washes - coastal hills and mountains backed by a thick cloud bank.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 24d

Machair and morning mist, again. Watercolour, 25x15cm.

A deep blue sea turns turquoise as it sweeps up a white sand beach. Low waves break on the sand. Behind the beach soft green machair-covered dunes are backed by mist and blue-distant hills under a grey-blue sky. Calm.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 25d

A cracking book, worth seeking. As all Richard's books are. I can only speak for those I've read, of course, but that's most of them.

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 25d

This one's a rarity. An Indifference Of Birds was published by the wonderful @uniformbooks.bsky.social and basically what's happened is we've sold 'em all. But if you want a really unusual book about birds, and us, and how we've shaped each other's worlds, there is the odd copy still out there.

An Indifference Of Birds. With, again, a stuffed sparrow.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very sorry to hear this Jane, the lack of sleep really adds to the pain and misery. I hope you feel better soon and get further solace from the landscape.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tried many times to capture the atmosphere of a Hebridean shore under a grey sky, before the morning mist has cleared. Somehow the beach and the machair still glow and the sea somehow still looks tropical. Yesterday, I think I just about cracked it.
#watercolour #art #Scotland #Hebrides #landscape

Watercolour, 17.5x10.5 cm. Waves break on a deep blue sea, which turns turquoise as it rolls up a white sand beach. Behind the beach soft green machair-covered dunes are backed by mist and blue-distant hills under a grey-blue sky.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · Sep 7

I've tried many times to capture the atmosphere of a Hebridean shore under a grey sky, before the morning mist has cleared. Somehow the beach and the machair still glow and the sea somehow still looks tropical. Yesterday I think I just about cracked it.

Watercolour 17.5 x 10 cm

Waves break on a deep blue sea which turns turquoise as it rolls up a white sand beach. Behind the beach soft green machair-covered dunes are backed by mist and blue-distant hills under a grey-blue sky.

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · Sep 4

Flitting to the hills?!

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · Sep 3

Payne's grey and lots of water.