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Alison Murray
@alisonmurray.bsky.social
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Illustrator and author of picture books, big reader, over thinker, dog lover, screen printer, allotment grower, green, ally, she / her


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Todays print #screenprinting
Print of a bird with a berry
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Glasgow peeps. Date for diary - 29th November for Cat’s Christmas storytelling crafternoon! More deets coming soon!
Poster image for Festive library event featuring Cat’s Christmas. 29th November 2025. More details to follow
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Happy US pub day to Cats Christmas! On sale now!
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It’s my book birthday! Happy publication day to Cat’s Christmas. Only 150 sleeps till Christmas!
September 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Devastated peace dove with words stop the genocide. Screenprinted patch in blue on white shirting fabric.
August 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Only 172 sleeps till Christmas 😸🎄
Bundle of picture books in a box 10 copies of Cat’s Christmas cover has grumpy black cat with Christmas bow tie.
July 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Today’s #screenprint. Owl flying.
Screen print of flying owl with crescent moon and stars. Pink, blue, yellow, orange.
March 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Yesterday’s printing - a new character. Lots of lovely colour with the overprinting hard to see on screen. #screenprinting
Grumpy bear printed illustration All the colour in the fur but with just blue pink and pale yellow.
March 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It’s sunny in Glasgow almost time to get back to the allotment :)
Illustration in pinks, greens,orange and black of allotment with shed.
January 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Cycling straight on into Halloween via a Tiger’s forest. #picturebooks
Illustration of girl dressed at witch broom strapped to bike black cat in basket. Sketch of pumpkin being sick Sketch of boy in cat costume Illustration of tigers head close up face on. With wry expression on face. Half smile.
January 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A must watch on iPlayer … www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Black and white photoshop of Scottish girl band. I think maybe Lung Leg. Not sure :/
December 19, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12/20!
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Feminist City. Red, yellow and orange text on cityscape background.
December 12, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K Le Guin. Blurring almost abstract black and white photo of dancer trailing scarf.
December 10, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger white text on distorted photograph of Klein’s face.
December 9, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson. White text on photograph of sea in blue and purple.
December 8, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici image of woman from a period painting perhaps 15th century? She is opening her dress to reveal the vulnerability of her chest in an act of defiance.
December 7, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of Virginia Woolfs Theee Guineas abstract flower pattern bloomsbury style blue flowers with green stems on pink background.
December 6, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6/20!
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#Books
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Cover of Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua Turquoise background with brown yellow and orange abstract folk art symbol.
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass - illustration in green of coil of braided sweet grass on cream background.
December 4, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4/20!
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Kurt Vonneguts book Slaughterhouse Five with text arranged around a square window with semicircular top. An alternative title is written in the window “Or The Childrens Crusade”.
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3/20!
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Alice Hoffmann’s Seventh Heaven. Collage in grid format of family photos, mother father and two children, a middle class American suburban home , a white dog. the stars, a kitchen knife, a soda ad.
December 2, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2/20!
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Illustration in sepia tones of lady trapeze artist in leotard with black wings on her back.
December 1, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1/20!
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Illustration in black white and red of man on horse rearing. Water rising all around. Hooded figure in foreground. Man with hat creeping into bottom left corner. Ominous.
November 30, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Hello, I’ve had a slow day today! :)
Snail illustration cheeky face, red and blue and off white on black background! Looking at you and smiling.
November 27, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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And here’s the video without the white noise lol
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM