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Sarah Coomer

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Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 8d

It's that time of year again... spooky advent calendars illustrated by me back in the Etsy shop! Borely Rectory Christmas cards with the same design available very soon if you want one / some of those as well. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...

An advent calendar based on an imaginary vintage greetings card of Borley Rectory at Christmas, complete with ghostly nun and Harry Price

An advent calendar window depicting two vampiric choirboys and Mark Gatiss with fangs in front of a gothic arched window.

An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of Krampus

An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of two ghostly youths peering out of a window

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 12h

*bows, spookily*

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 13h

Borley Rectory Christmas cards now available from my shop! Also I'll bung one in with any advent calendar bought this week. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

Three Christmas cards featuring a black and white illustration of Borley Rectory in the snow, inc ghostly nun and Harry Price

An advent calendar featuring a black and white illustration of Borley Rectory in the snow, inc ghostly nun and Harry Price

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I suppose there’s some kind of identifying software or something but it’d be nice if they could be a bit more discerning about what constitutes ‘adult content’.

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3d

Sheesh. I wondered if this might happen… interestingly Instagram didn’t get its knickers in a twist about a few little old charcoal sketches. Not yet anyway.

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a better way to spend Thursday evening than life drawing in an ex-anatomy lecture theatre next to a pub?

A charcoal drawing of a curled up nude woman

A quick charcoal sketch of a nude woman kneeling with her weight on her hands

A charcoal sketch of a nude woman on peering over her shoulder

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 3d

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A paper model of a Plague Doctor, all black except for a white mask with a long snout. He holds a staff (which is a cocktail stick with a white ribbon attached)

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a better way to spend Thursday evening than life drawing in an ex-anatomy lecture theatre next to a pub?

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 8d

Borley Rectory even 😐

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 8d

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 13d

Some more of my own favourites of my paintings

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28d

Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.

A black fine line pen in a crosshatch technique and rolled printing ink on white paper illustration of a signalman standing at the foot of the steps up to his lonely signalbox. The little house shaped box is situated at the bottom of a steep and dank ravine, big slabs of blasted rock rise up to a wooded area, trees trunks, roots and branches twist up into the darkness. The Signalman stares into the mouth of a dark tunnel, rail tracks run parallel to the signalbox into the tunnel. Another figure stands at the mouth of the tunnel, it is shrouded in low lying mist. The only source of illumination is from the light inside the signalbox and a small glowing lamp above the ghostly figure at the tunnel mouth. Dark, damp, dripping, you can imagine the sound of wind blowing through the tunnel and the isolated ravine, not a place for a party but I’d be happy enough there (I’m odd).

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Always had a soft spot for this picture - the woman (and her coat) were perfectly timed and placed :)

Stokksnes #Iceland March 2017

A B&W photo of some pointy mountains with a little snow on them iwth low clouds swirling around the tops. In the foregound is a small pond in some sand dunes reflecting part of the mountains. On a ridge overlooking the sea between the dunes and the mountains is the solhouette of a woman with a long coat.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yes… I’m pragmatic about these things. If someone else (who might be a man) is around who’s better, quicker etc I’ll let them get on with it. But I’ve a) restarted an oil boiler after an airlock b) changed a car wheel and c) declogged a washing machine without prior experience cos needs must innit.

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you! Just about my favourite place I think.

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Early autumn Applecross round up

A very dramatic white cloud over the sea towards Skye, lit up by the setting sun.

A view of an inlet in the Scottish Highlands fringed with dull orange vegetation. The sky is murky and smeared with rain and the sky is almost a bruised yellow in places. There’s a small dark green tree in the foreground to the left

A view of an inlet. The tide is partially out, revealing orangey yellow seaweed. There are dark grey rocks in the foreground. The sky is dull and grey, which is reflected in the flat sea

An old sheep’s skull perched on top of the spagnum moss roof of a log store. In the background are two cottages, of which the nearest has a bright red door. There is a dry stone wall beyond the cottages and a hillside in the distance. The sky is cloudy, threatening rain.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 31

I love these

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Jools Wilson @bearsgetcrafty.bsky.social · Aug 31

I've been messing with the gel plate.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yeah, 2029's probably optimal. Except it'll be full of people trying to avoid all the people.

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wow, a pound. I mean, 50p isn't bad. Our great Uncle Tom used to give us 10p. But as you say, maybe it was danger money.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ha, there's a lovely live version they featured on a BBC4 'weather music special' (as they do) a few weeks back which has completely reignited my very deep love for them... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Crikey! That is one corking claim to fame... It's 95 years to the day since the last St Kilda residents were evacuated btw. It's not a date I have seared into my brain or anything, it popped up somewhere earlier.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wow, don’t get me started on St Kilda… I am not Scottish at all but I don’t feel like I would ever want to live anywhere else. Definitely not England. And the more remote the better (sez she, practically bathed in the glow of Cameron Toll).

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’d actually love to do a gargantuan tour of the Highlands and Islands one day. There’s so much of it I haven’t visited (ie most of it). I might do it for my gap year, which I have just allocated as the year after next.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Well I really hope you get there… but that’s the thing with these remote places. Part of the loveliness of them is the hassle it takes to get there. Sort of. That’s actually really badly put but you know what I mean.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Me too especially now I’ve seen that mausoleum. What a thing! Though I’m sure the rest of it is well worth a visit anyway.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · Aug 28

I love this photo of the mausoleum on Rum. I’m sorry, I can’t immediately find the name of the photographer.

A Roman/greek style building mostly pillars and a roof. It’s surrounded by hills.

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