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Tom Cherry • Bedfordshire, UK

Textile artist inspired by folklore, myth, magic and the macabre ✨🌞

https://xphaiea.bigcartel.com/products
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I'm a UK based textile and doll artist inspired by folk art, horror, fantasy and the surreal, with a strong emphasis on using recycled materials!

🔗 xphaiea.bigcartel.com
#workinprogress on this embroidered 3D hare, a component of the piece I'm working on currently ✨

#embroidery
#embroideryart
#hare
#mythandmagic
February 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
One year ago today I was working on these two pieces... Angrboda and Jormungandr

#angrboda #jormungandr #norse #heathen #snake
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Working on a new piece, enjoying embroidery at the moment 😁

#embroidery #embroideryart #contemporarytextiles
January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Andrew Wyeth
No Trespassing
January 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Cedar
Emily Carr
1942
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Baba Yaga (2019)

#art #illustration #babayaga
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 AM
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The Dragon from Wormelow Barrow

#dragon #dragons #fantasyart #artdolls #textileart
January 22, 2026 at 8:56 AM
MERCURIA°

Now available on my website.

#artdoll #artdolls #alchemy #embroidery #folkart
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM
January 20, 2026 at 7:12 AM
A little bee embroidered patch on my recent doll Sol.

#bee #embroidery #stitch
January 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM
🆂🅾🅻 • ALCHYMICAL PLAYSCHOOL

First doll of 2026!

#alchemy #esotericart #textileartist #contemporarytextileart
January 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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"I see this roll had a kind of face and it had a bit of band tied round underneath. It fell right over and this face hid in his neck."
- M R James., 'The Uncommon Prayer Book'

#BookologyThursday & also #PhantomsFriday, for which I'm looking forward to another spirited series of ghostly posts.
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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‘You may think all this strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.’ — Arthur Machen, ‘The Great God Pan’ (1894)

🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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'Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.'

~William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'

🎨Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
#bookologythursday
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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#portfolioday

I am Mark Jarrell, pen & ink fantasy illustrator. For my own realm as well as work for bands, publishers, etc. ⚔Fantasy obsessed ⚔
January 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#portfolioday

I'm a UK based textile and doll artist inspired by folk art, horror, fantasy and the surreal, with a strong emphasis on using recycled materials!

🔗 xphaiea.bigcartel.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:13 AM
January 11, 2026 at 8:57 AM
W o r k • I n • P r o g r e s s

#contemporarytextileart #embroidery #embroideryart
January 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Walk in the woods ✨
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Moose/Elk in the Snow, John Bauer, 1912.
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
January 1, 2026 at 10:03 AM
December 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM