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Nick Tankard

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Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics). You will always find me on the allotment at parties. Bradford, UK. nicktankard.co.uk for prints, originals and portfolio.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · Sep 8

My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.

A grid of black and white illustrations I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 3h

Looking back through photographs I’ve taken this summer. Throughout my mums illness & death it feels like I wasn’t really ‘here’, it felt like I was just existing but there is photographic proof that I was ‘here’ and out & about doing stuff. A very strange year. Life goes on.

People on a stage (including the mighty Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey).

A wonky black & white chequered floor and a man (me standing in a dark doorway) at an exhibition of Tim Burton artwork.

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you, Andrew. Very much enjoying The Imagined Life. I love Daunt Books, London is great for bookshops. All the best with your new book 👍🏻😉

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, The Beautiful Sausage. You’re such a force for good for illustration & illustrators. I’d like to thank you on behalf of us all for promoting our work and offering encouragement, it’s much appreciated, keep up the great work! We’ll see if I can get my act together 👍🏻😉

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

This is my stop. See you in a bit 👍🏻

The view out of a stationary train window, nothing but green fern like leaves very close up to the window.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 4d

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Paint Brush
6th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Witch riding a paintbrush in front of a tracery moon. Raven along for the ride. Pencil on toned paper with White paint and chalk.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

It’s definitely playing a role in my lack of desire to do anything creative. It’ll pass at some point. I hope you’re back to writing and feeling better, Fiona x

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely, it’s been a year & a half for me but today I just woke up thinking “perhaps that’s it?” If it is, it is. I’ll find something new…and just continue to wait patiently. All the best to you 👊🏻

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

I was also working in a bookshop when the proof of the second Book of Dust came out, I did exactly the same as you and I didn’t enjoy it. I think I rushed it just so I could feel like I’d read it before anyone else. I am a fool.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

I reckon a chainsaw and an old tree trunk would be a good fit at the moment!

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

In the end I realise none of it matters, nobody is desperately waiting for what I make next, it’s just a nuisance. The world is full of troubling stuff, making artwork was an escape. I’ll stick my head into some books for a while.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a great idea but I worry that I’ll just come out with the same old stuff. Perhaps I just need to let go of it all and come back somewhere down the line when me and my hands are ready to? 🫤

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

I will say that (thankfully) it doesn’t stop me being interested in work by others, I still love seeing what people are doing out there, I’m rooting for everyone else!

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

I think I’m just going to have to accept that I’m not interested in being creative. I think I’m done with it.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve woken up wondering if I will ever make new illustrations, I’ve absolutely no desire to at all. Thoughts happen but the hands ain’t interested. Strange strange times.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

There it is, and not long at all until it’s out! I’ll add that to my ever growing birthday wish list. I love Dark Matter and Thin Air but I didn’t get along with Wakenhyrst, I had to give up on it. Fingers crossed for this one🤞🏼Cheers, Some Bloke 👍🏻

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 15d

Mood.

David Bowie: Ian Fish, U.K. Heir

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Ian Fish, U.K. Heir (2021 Remaster)

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I’d missed your post about your father, I’m so sorry, Fifi. Surround yourself with lovely, kind and funny people x

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

Sending you a Bluesky hug. Take it easy, Fifi x

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

My other book purchase from Daunt Books in London this week. I’ve yet to start it so I’ve no idea what it’s about but I thought it looked intriguing. One of those books that ‘calls’ to you, it was hidden away on a low shelf. The artwork reminds me of Shaun Tan & Sydney Smith. I’m going in…

The cover of MR. Distinctive by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrated by Joanna Concejo. A cover illustration of a blurred close up of a young mans face, behind him people paddle in the sea. On the left of the cover are blocks of colour, like the break up of a digitised image.

Illustrations in black and colour pencils. Random images of snapshots, a boy swinging on a bar, a sunset, a heron sitting on a goal post. Beautifully drawn, hazy and dreamlike.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

Not a haunted house movie as such but I’d recommend ‘A Dark Song’ for creepiness.

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

The childhood home of David Bowie. 4 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, South London.

A very ordinary suburban terrace house in Bromley, South London. The childhood home of David Bowie.

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Marc Michaud @marcmichaud.bsky.social · 5d

I always have to dip in and ask if you've seen the extended blue rose cut that includes a bunch of edited material?
archive.org/details/fwwm...

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me - Extended Blue Rose Cut : Agent Sam Stanley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Original running time: 135 minutesFanedit running time: 195 minutes (60 mins added)Original year of release: 1992Deleted footage year of release: 2014Directed...

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

Holding off scattering my mums ashes on the East Yorkshire coast until it’s considerably less windy, it’d blow her back to Bradford at this rate and she wouldn’t want to be scattered here. Anyhow, it gives me chance to go and see One Battle After Another this week. Hold your horses, mum.