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F. E. Clark

@feclark.bsky.social

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I live in Scotland, paint, write, take photos. I love books, music, and walking in the hills. BIFFY50 2020. Noms: Best Microfiction, Best Small Fiction, 2 x Best of the Net, 3 x Pushcart. #FromMyWalk #amquerying. **I can't see or reply to DMs**

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F. E. Clark @feclark.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hello,
I've been feeling rather
sad/furious/scared/exhausted/broken/isolated
of late, and with little I want to share of my own work, I've been reposting other people's: art, photography, nature, books. It's good to see people out there making things 💙
#hello #diary #photography #Scotland #lost

A close up photograph of the word 'lost' inscribed on a memorial at the Necropolis in Glasgow - photo by me. The stone is grey flecked with orange yellow, which is perhaps a type of lichen. The word is all lower case and black in the indent of the carving.

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 14h

Nobuya Shida, Travel (nihonga technique on wood panel, 2000)

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

The hallway window in the Mackintosh house, the rebuilt home of the Scottish designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

#WindowsOnWednesday

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w.s. @wynfred1840.bsky.social · 22h

morningtime watercolours aquarell studies, from my kitchen. 7 oktober 2025

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 12h

The whole big thing 🦋🌸🌿
#embroidery #fiberArt

A big embroidery piece on a hoop, with lots of flowers and plants, an appliqué moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a leafy background

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 9h

#WIPWednesday • I worked mostly on texture this week which might not be obvious in the photo but is obvious to me! #embroidery

Lia’s fingers show a wooden embroidery hoop with a trapezoid of black on black whipped backstitch that looks a bit like flames, but if you’ve been following this piece you’ll know it’s pubic hair. It’s definitely pubic hair. The trapezoid is 14cm wide along the top, 7cm wide along the bottom, and 8cm tall. There’s white chalk markings within the hairs. An hourglass-shaped needle minder that reads “this is taking forever” is attached to the cloth.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 17h

Last night.

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Ross @fletcher22.bsky.social · 23h

Low tide #photography

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 20h

Fierce winds drive off snow & ice from the peaks of Paine Grande in Patagonia's Torres del Paine. There is a whole world of drama & grandeur to be found far above in the peaks of mountains, & especially so for Patagonia!

#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #travel

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 20h

You are dead to us Jimmy Perez, you traitor. And sassermaet rules!

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 21h

Happy publication day to regular Orkney Library visitor
@anncleeves.bsky.social. The Killing Stones has just been published and features D.I. Jimmy Perez but now he has moved from Shetland to #Orkney!

It's less sassermaet and more fatty cuttie. #IYKYK

Available now from your local library.

The cover of The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13h

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @notmoro.bsky.social is still up for grabs.

Jess is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21h

More #buyastrangerabook day action!

@notmoro.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 21h

Yes please, I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK, up to £20. ("Strangers" can include mutuals I don't know very well, unless I have already bought them a book previously.)

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F. E. Clark @feclark.bsky.social · 14h

#FromMyWalk this evening: harvest moon rising
#photography #diary #Scotland #WritingCommunity

An unfocused blazed out shot - black in foreground, ultramarine blue above horizon, centre a flash of white yellow - the harvest moon rising up over the hill behind silhouettes of branches.

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omi @omikim.bsky.social · 16h

Rainy night in Dotonbori river, Osaka Japan . #photography

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Polly Jackson @buygoodart.bsky.social · 18h

Three paintings from the late 80's, early 90's, all oil on canvas

#oilpainting
#art
#traditionalMediums
#WindowsonWednesday

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Mike Foley Photography @mikefoleyfilm.bsky.social · 17h

A quick stop at the watering hole

Flagstaff, AZ [2020]

Film: Kodak Ultramax 400

#photography #35mm #kodak #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #flagstaff #arizona

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 1d

You know, I was in Portland a couple of weeks ago for a good stretch of time. I have friends and family in Portland that I know and love. It was about as far from a war zone as I could imagine. It was quiet and peaceful. I got lots of work done. Ate at some great restaurants. Had some good beer.

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 16h

Thank you so much for ALL your support 🦋
We are fundraising to invest in new books and new writing. Every penny we raise will be spent on our authors. Do please make a donation and share our fundraiser widely!
#Fundraiser
#SupportIndie
#IndiePress
#IndiePublishing
#KeepBooksAlive
#BookSky

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

gofund.me

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Stereolabgroop @stereolabgroop.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight - @stereolabgroop.bsky.social play a sold out show at Babeville - Buffalo, NY. USA. Support from Dorothea Paas.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 17h

In a bit of an artistic block. Not worried though, like I used to be, it is just a shift in direction usually. Waiting it out is resulting in frantic gardening, cleaning and cooking.

Painting titled Brainwave.

Brainwave painting, wiggly worms of light revealing a face.

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Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️‍🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social · 16h

In the finishing stages of setting up the show for Friday

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥
📅 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Friday 10 October, 7:30 pm
🖼 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 11 October – 15 November 2025
📍 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
🎙 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸:Thursday 23 October, 7:30 pm

🔗 More Info: www.andycropper.art/cupola2025

Andy is stood with a paint brush, spot checking a painting for stray scratches and marks.

The view is of a white room -white floorboards and white painted walls and ceiling - the archetypal white gallery. There are 2 paintings . A large, intensely blue painting, aview of a streetlights with an intensely dark blue sky behind it.

Andy is touching up a much smaller painting very definitely containing a similar hue and toned dark sky, but the rest of the details are obscured.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 16h

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks to our brilliant volunteers, we’ve collected over 50kg of hazelnuts this year! 🌰

Hazel is a key #rainforest species - one of the first to establish in the west after the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago.

We're working with @wtscotsocial.bsky.social to boost the availability of native trees

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 16h

"The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do" by Fiona Apple

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

Ladies and gentlepuffins we are floating in space.
One small step for puffin, one giant leap for puffinkind, with more Jill McDonald joy for my Sputnik Sweethearts.

Colourful cartoon cover of a 1968 Puffin Post magazine, in which a pink space rocket emits fierce fiery jets of flame from three booster rockets which are powering it.
The rocket is patterned in black flowers and orange pink and yellow zigzags speeds through a black starry sky with a big shiny sliver satellite spinning through space.
The rocket is crewed by three puffins in yellow space suits sitting at porthole windows and three on space walks outside tethered to the rocket by squiggly blue cables.
Above it, another rocket, this one striped red and yellow zooms across bearing the title Puffin Post in white, hand drawn capital letters outlined in black.
The style of the illustration is very much 1960s psychedelia for primary children and it gives a real sense of an unfolding scene in motion

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

This weaving is finished and I’m contemplating what to do with it next. #PaperWeaving
#ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
#Collage #CollageMaker

A photo of a paper and string weaving. The warp is natural-colored cotton string and the weft is mostly blues and teals papers that I’ve painted, and/or drawn on, or are pieces from my journals I’ve printed and cut up, or are fancy store bought art papers. It’s laying on a piece of cabbage eco-dyed paper.

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