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Insular art, processes, pigments, parchment and graffiti.

Joined March 2020
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Nick Wallis
@nickwallis
Mar 3
Oh good lord. When will control of the arts be removed from censorious gatekeeping morons. It's so infuriating. We need to build something away from these tedious mediocrities. Endless sanctimony.
Polly Clark
@MsPollyClark
Mar 2
This is about what happened to me in the days leading up to publication of my 25 year poetry retrospective Afterlife: New and Selected Poems. Please read and share. Link follows.
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Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem…

Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

An installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral caused an outcry, with the US vice president among its fierce critics.

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This is the last week for posting out prints in time for Christmas for UK addresses, for the Irish Republic its today! scribalstyles.net/shop/
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'An Fheinn anns an Uaimh'. This piece depicts the legend of the Fianna warriors under a curse from a witch who turned herself into a deer to get them to pursue her. They are still trapped in a cave until the horn 'dord fian' is blown again Original is for sale DM for details.
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The Birth of Ossian, from 2022, done as part of a collaboration with Gaelic Scholar Dr. Michael Newton. It now has a good home in Andover USA.
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Making the Book of Kells one folio at a time scribalstyles.net
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This is the Teachd Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill piece before I added the smoke from the fire, as I was using real fire and smoke I got this scan as insurance incase I burnt the whole thing and lost nearly 400 hrs work
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the messy end of the business, seaweed burn, deboning cattle feet in winter, skinning time, heads and ribs...... and thats why vellum is expensive (the colouring in is fun)
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summer parchment making, a long way off now. scribalstyles.net
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insular art available at scribalstyles.net
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Im getting into advertising scribalstyles.net
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on the tiny spirals, to match the scale of the Kells Chi Rho page, (nearly there) scribalstyles.net
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SHOP scribalstyles.net/shop/ prints now available of some of my most complex illuminated pages

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For original artwork, please enquire directly. I do sometimes take on commissions but I’m only making really complex things in a very specific way so it really

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colouring the woad in on Calumcille ann an Alba. Prints of the finished artwork available at scribalstyles.net/shop
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Made using the same techniques and materials as the Book of Kells this artwork depicts the miracles attributed to Saint Columba during his time on Iona and his journey up the Great Glen to meet the Pictish King. Prints now available at scribalstyles.net
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Teachd Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill, the coming of Finn McCool, traditional pigments on parchment, 2024. Prints now available at scribalstyles.net/shop
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The birth of Ossian, traditional pigments on parchment 2021
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this is my lunellum made by heritageblades.co.uk beside the 8th century original found at Portmahomack, now at National Museum of Scotland. mine has lost its edge after a year of use, it started out as the same shape as the original. I use it to delaminate calf hides
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painting in red lead on Book of Kells John portrait
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Manus agus a' Mhuilgheartach. The story of Magnus and the sea hag, done in the style of the Book of Deer, traditional pigments on vellum, been holding onto it for a few years now, probably will sell it.
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