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Mat Pringle
@matpringle.bsky.social
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Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · Apr 28
A statement regarding Unbound/Boundless.
Last week Unbound was scheduled to refund 8k of pledge money to people that had supported my book 'Singing Up the Sun'. Last week Unbound went into administration. Today I discovered the money won't be refunded. I'm mortified about the situation. I recommend you attempt to get refunds directly through your banks, credit card providers and Paypal etc. People are having some success with this approach. In the process of administration Unbound are rebranding as Boundless and sidestepping their debts to carry on business as usual. There are hundreds of authors who haven't been paid in over a year and now thousands of backers of book projects who won't be refunded. The whole thing is grotesque. I had hoped to take the project elsewhere but I'm starting with an 8k deficit of support and feeling reasonably broken about the entire shit show. For what it's worth I'm massively grateful for all the support and kind words I've received along the way. Thank you. x
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Potsherds
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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S is for Starve Acre in my #folkhorroralphabet a linocut series inspired by folk horror tinged books, films and music. The novel was a reading highlight of last year, a chilling story of grief and desperation in a rural setting.

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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The Mari Lwyd Christmas Cards are back in stock

10 packs available

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November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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S is for Starve Acre in my #folkhorroralphabet a linocut series inspired by folk horror tinged books, films and music. The novel was a reading highlight of last year, a chilling story of grief and desperation in a rural setting.

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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Did not enjoy my morning run along the seafront. Not a jot.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Where the heck is Eleanor Davis these days?
A page from ‘Why Art?’ by Eleanor Davis which features a line drawing of a person with a wolf mask under which is written ‘- FUCK, PARTY, MURDER’.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
A black and white illustration from the Moomins.The illustration is of a wooded landscape at night with bats in flight and low misty clouds. Moomintroll, Snufkin and Sniff are walking through the wooded area looking a little scared.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Some progress on my Krampus marionette 🔔
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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R is for a Robin Redbreast from my #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1970 Play for Today short film. It manages to fuse rural isolation, Pagan ritual and feminism in a taut seventy minutes with a slow-build ominous creeping dread.

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An illustrated linocut print and plate inspired by the folk horror film ‘Robin Redbreast’.
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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A film that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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#StandingStoneSunday A short animated film by Joseph Brett. Careful where you choose to have a picnic... 🪨

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Stones
A brother and sister’s reunion picnic at a stone circle in the English countryside is disrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest... ‘Stones’…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Q is for Quarantine from my Folk Horror Alphabet.

‘Quarantine’ (2018) is a wonderful folk horror tinged stop motion film ‘a post Brexit pagan dance fantasy about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers…’

Available to watch on the BFI website.

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November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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It’s the final day of the PRINT SOCIAL exhibition @_josephwales_ in Margate today and we’ll be running a Christmas card printing workshop between 12-3.

The exhibition is open from 11-4. Come!

Many thanks to everyone that has stopped by. We appreciate your support.
A promotional image to advertise the PRINT SOCIAL Christmas card printing this afternoon at Jospeh Wales in Margate this afternoon from 12 until 3. The main picture is a linocut print of a robin stood on a snowy can of Stella. The smaller picture is an inky roller.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Monster printmaking workshop in Margate today at the PRINT SOCIAL exhibition, Jospeh Wales Gallery.

PV at five. Beer, crisps, prints. COME.
A promotional poster for a printmaking workshop in Margate today. Six square images of monster stamps with teal and pink colours.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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O is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well.

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An illustrated linocut block and print of a young woman with long hair in chunky knitwear holding her open hands up to her face. The palms have owl eye patterns on them.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Driven from Margate to Clacton and back again for a funeral today. The car heater stopped working on the way home.

I’ve had better days.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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N is for Night Tide (1961) from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet an early Dennis Hopper film directed by Curtis Harrington about a woman called Mora who might be a mermaid. The film has an eerie carnival/boardwalk setting and atmosphere to match.

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An illustrated linocut print and plate of a mermaid in a tattoo style with a banner that reads ‘Mora Forever’.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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The *weighting* of this one — the heavy black head only just balanced by the hips, and that splendid ink-stained spotting of white up the hands, the contrasting angles of movement: head lifting, horns curling away, hands curled but in motion, all the potential twist of movement

#artthoughts
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I is for ‘Incubus’ in my #folkhorroralphabet a 1966 film starring a young William Shatner. A slow-build horror set on a seemingly idyllic island inhabited by demons that prey on the vain and self-centred. They’d have a field day on social media.

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An illustrated linocut block of an Incubus, a folkloric monstrous demon that preys on unsuspecting women. Ye olde incel.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Retweet with a time you looked cool.
Drinking a can of Tecate beer sat at a dive bar in the Tenderloin, San Francisco with a bar dog called Leroy. Not sure I look particularly cool but it was a cool time; I was living in California and finding my way as an illustrator. The bar was rough and everyone was messed up and broken and wildly happy. I ❤️ SF.
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Open now!
Outside the Joseph Wales Gallery in Margate. An A frame reads ‘EXHIBITION OPEN NOW’.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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P is for Panna a Netvor in my linocut #folkhorroralphabet a Czechoslovak adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast story from 1978. It’s a dark foreboding gothic interpretation with the beast portrayed as a tortured humanoid bird creature.

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An illustrated linocut block and print of a woman stood in front of a strange bird man creature with a gothic looking castle in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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M is for Midsommar in my #folkhorroralphabet

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An illustrated linocut print inspired by the folk horror film Midsommar next to the block.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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M is for Midsommar in my #folkhorroralphabet

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An illustrated linocut print inspired by the folk horror film Midsommar next to the block.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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L is for Lankum in my #folkhorroralphabet and this linocut illustration takes inspiration from the haunting video for ‘Go Dig My Grave’.

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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM