Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Got another lino cut on the go. Another demon fella, you know...
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Got another lino cut on the go. Another demon fella, you know...
Film Time!
Watched Tokuzō Tanaka's THE SNOW WOMAN (1968). Reckon it would make a decent double-bill with Erik Blomberg's The White Reindeer, two folkloric tales centred on a doomed romance between a standard fella and a badass frosty succubus. Didn't expect to be weeping full tears by the end...
Watched Tokuzō Tanaka's THE SNOW WOMAN (1968). Reckon it would make a decent double-bill with Erik Blomberg's The White Reindeer, two folkloric tales centred on a doomed romance between a standard fella and a badass frosty succubus. Didn't expect to be weeping full tears by the end...
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Film Time!
Watched Tokuzō Tanaka's THE SNOW WOMAN (1968). Reckon it would make a decent double-bill with Erik Blomberg's The White Reindeer, two folkloric tales centred on a doomed romance between a standard fella and a badass frosty succubus. Didn't expect to be weeping full tears by the end...
Watched Tokuzō Tanaka's THE SNOW WOMAN (1968). Reckon it would make a decent double-bill with Erik Blomberg's The White Reindeer, two folkloric tales centred on a doomed romance between a standard fella and a badass frosty succubus. Didn't expect to be weeping full tears by the end...
Yelling my new fact to everyone in the Bullring shopping centre...
February 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Yelling my new fact to everyone in the Bullring shopping centre...
Funny how a whole press junket spiel has developed to explain the meaning behind the quotation marks, rather than 'we simply lifted them from the poster of the 1920 adaptation'...
February 7, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Funny how a whole press junket spiel has developed to explain the meaning behind the quotation marks, rather than 'we simply lifted them from the poster of the 1920 adaptation'...
Having a google to see they got graphic designer Katie Buckley back for the titles. I remember she hand painted the cards for Saltburn...
February 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Having a google to see they got graphic designer Katie Buckley back for the titles. I remember she hand painted the cards for Saltburn...
Ah, I see what they did there..!
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Ah, I see what they did there..!
More of my dad's carved ghosts going live this evening. Some painted with acrylics, some scorched with fire...
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
More of my dad's carved ghosts going live this evening. Some painted with acrylics, some scorched with fire...
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
I professionally defaced another two books with the classic flaming goat. Now available in the shop...
🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I professionally defaced another two books with the classic flaming goat. Now available in the shop...
🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Folk Horror Time!
Revisited TUMBBAD (2018). An Indian cautionary tale of generational greed involving a secret source of limitless treasure. The film occasionally drags following a wonderfully macabre Brothers Grimm-esque opening, but explodes into life whenever the magic money pit is revealed...
Revisited TUMBBAD (2018). An Indian cautionary tale of generational greed involving a secret source of limitless treasure. The film occasionally drags following a wonderfully macabre Brothers Grimm-esque opening, but explodes into life whenever the magic money pit is revealed...
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Folk Horror Time!
Revisited TUMBBAD (2018). An Indian cautionary tale of generational greed involving a secret source of limitless treasure. The film occasionally drags following a wonderfully macabre Brothers Grimm-esque opening, but explodes into life whenever the magic money pit is revealed...
Revisited TUMBBAD (2018). An Indian cautionary tale of generational greed involving a secret source of limitless treasure. The film occasionally drags following a wonderfully macabre Brothers Grimm-esque opening, but explodes into life whenever the magic money pit is revealed...
Found your sauce in Tesco...
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Found your sauce in Tesco...
I like to imagine Vermeer set up on the other side of the house painting his Little Street (made the same year!), bloody artists everywhere while you're trying to get on with your chores...
January 31, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I like to imagine Vermeer set up on the other side of the house painting his Little Street (made the same year!), bloody artists everywhere while you're trying to get on with your chores...
That time I pilfered the Italian merchant from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait and captured him in lino print as a floating phantom. No one bought it but I had fun...
January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
That time I pilfered the Italian merchant from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait and captured him in lino print as a floating phantom. No one bought it but I had fun...
Thanks to Darren Aronofsky for showing the importance of sentient human beings in the art department. I start on the next tv job soon, gonna print this nice and big to put up in the production office...
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Thanks to Darren Aronofsky for showing the importance of sentient human beings in the art department. I start on the next tv job soon, gonna print this nice and big to put up in the production office...
Of course I added this to my daft t-shirt thing (and corrected the Spanish exclamation mark grammatical error)...
www.teepublic.com/user/slipper...
www.teepublic.com/user/slipper...
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Of course I added this to my daft t-shirt thing (and corrected the Spanish exclamation mark grammatical error)...
www.teepublic.com/user/slipper...
www.teepublic.com/user/slipper...
Revisted František Vlácil’s top notch allegorical folk tale THE DEVIL'S TRAP (1962). Miroslav Macháček superb as the priest hell-bent on persecuting a respected miller who puts his faith in nature over religion, and thus suspected of being in league with the devil...
January 28, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Revisted František Vlácil’s top notch allegorical folk tale THE DEVIL'S TRAP (1962). Miroslav Macháček superb as the priest hell-bent on persecuting a respected miller who puts his faith in nature over religion, and thus suspected of being in league with the devil...
El Chupacapybara, is that anything? I did an illustration and got it out of my system, anyhoo...
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
El Chupacapybara, is that anything? I did an illustration and got it out of my system, anyhoo...
Uh-oh, the word is out that the woman at number thirteen is a soft touch...
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Uh-oh, the word is out that the woman at number thirteen is a soft touch...
Revisited Cronenberg's THE BROOD. Banger flick. The straight-faced commitment to such outlandish material, the rage beasties are genuinely upsetting. Wondered if it was an influence on Weapons - the laser-guided kids as murder weapon. Also the bland male lead uncannily resembles Alden Ehrenreich...
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Revisited Cronenberg's THE BROOD. Banger flick. The straight-faced commitment to such outlandish material, the rage beasties are genuinely upsetting. Wondered if it was an influence on Weapons - the laser-guided kids as murder weapon. Also the bland male lead uncannily resembles Alden Ehrenreich...
Devil on the reverse...
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Devil on the reverse...
Around eight years ago I acquired a first edition hardback of William Hjortsberg's original novel. Finally started it last night...
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Around eight years ago I acquired a first edition hardback of William Hjortsberg's original novel. Finally started it last night...
Pretty pictures!
ANGEL HEART (1987)
Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Production Designer: Brian Morris
ANGEL HEART (1987)
Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Production Designer: Brian Morris
January 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Pretty pictures!
ANGEL HEART (1987)
Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Production Designer: Brian Morris
ANGEL HEART (1987)
Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Production Designer: Brian Morris
Film time!
Revisited Alan Parker's satanic private dick flick ANGEL HEART (1987). While the convoluted plotting is a bit of a drag, the film more than gets by on Mickey Rourke's magnetic dishevelled charm (Lisa Bonet also superb) and gorgeous design packed full of incidental period detail, mmm...
Revisited Alan Parker's satanic private dick flick ANGEL HEART (1987). While the convoluted plotting is a bit of a drag, the film more than gets by on Mickey Rourke's magnetic dishevelled charm (Lisa Bonet also superb) and gorgeous design packed full of incidental period detail, mmm...
January 26, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Film time!
Revisited Alan Parker's satanic private dick flick ANGEL HEART (1987). While the convoluted plotting is a bit of a drag, the film more than gets by on Mickey Rourke's magnetic dishevelled charm (Lisa Bonet also superb) and gorgeous design packed full of incidental period detail, mmm...
Revisited Alan Parker's satanic private dick flick ANGEL HEART (1987). While the convoluted plotting is a bit of a drag, the film more than gets by on Mickey Rourke's magnetic dishevelled charm (Lisa Bonet also superb) and gorgeous design packed full of incidental period detail, mmm...
I was disappointed to see Heinrich had shed his white suit jacket by the time he is stabbed by Adjani and then drowned by Sam Neill in a grotty Berlin basement toilet, bah...
January 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I was disappointed to see Heinrich had shed his white suit jacket by the time he is stabbed by Adjani and then drowned by Sam Neill in a grotty Berlin basement toilet, bah...
My dad has another of his wood carved Maris (and a few driftwood phantoms) available in his shop in about 57 minutes..!
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
My dad has another of his wood carved Maris (and a few driftwood phantoms) available in his shop in about 57 minutes..!
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com