John Altringham

The excitement is not good for my Parkinson's, so I tell myself it's just a game, the result is not important, I just want to watch good rugby. This does not of course work. Here's to a victorious northern hemisphere. And good rugby.

Grand stuff, thanks for the heads up - could be a regular treat this podcast. Big day tomorrow!

Colour photo. Extensively faulted rock cliff dipping into a smooth, horizontal beach under a blue sky.

Watercolour of same

Monochrome photo of same.

Metamorphic rocks of Faraid Head, Sutherland, NW Scotland. Moine Thrust Zone Mylonites Complex.
A visual invitation to dive below the thin veneer of sand and follow the geology into the crust.
Photo, watercolour and a monochrome photo - an engraving?

Very good news! Can't wait to see where you go with this.

Print in black ink of a wood engraving 75x150mm. A broad, gnarly trunk of an oak tree with a gatepost, broken wooden fence and wildflowers in front of it.

Very pleased to report that my wood engraving "Oak" has been selected for the 88th annual exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. The exhibition will tour the UK in 2026, starting at the Bankside Gallery, London in February.

sepia toned print of a snow covered mountain, partly shrouded by cloud - an aquatint etching

sepia toned print (aquatint etching) of a snow covered mountain seen across a dark sea. Ribbons of cloud or rain fall from a dark sky.

inkwyrm.com - thankfully AI can't (yet) make etchings.

Emma Stibbon | Melting Ice | Rising Tides

And on the subject of exhibitions, if you're in London, I highly recommend going to see Emma Stibbon's show 'Melting Ice, Rising Tides' at the Cristea Roberts Gallery cristearoberts.com/exhibitions/...

The large-scale ink/watercolour drawings are incredible.

Chris van Otterloo - Ayers Rock III
#ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e

Large watercolour (c. 80x60 cm) of autumn leaves on rough watercolour paper. Single or small groups of leaves of many species, with seeds, fruit, invertebrates, etc., many still to be added.

Work in progress, watercolour autumn, for my sister. 80x60cm.
The paintbrush on the ceramic rest and the leaf to the right of them are real, given away by their shadows. Painted leaves will all have painted shadows to pop them out of the paper and bring them to life, or in this case, senescence.

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We left about 3:15 but we could have all been there for some time and missed each other among all those little rooms.

Three wood engraving prints in black ink, in narrow, dark grey frames with off-white mounts. Birds and other wildlife.

Off to the www.zillahbellgallery.co.uk tomorrow for the preview of the Society of Wood Engravers Exhibition and to deliver a few prints for the Winter Exhibition that opens in December.

Thanks for the offer! You are right - in principle, I have the tools, but in practise my GIS and R skills have atrophied. I think I like the idea more than the reality. Maybe one day I will be curious enough to do the hard hours. It is aways nice to watch you and others at the art/science interface.

As a retired ecologist, how do I persuade myself I MUST have the gear and skills to do this!?

The fungus often feeds on trees already weak. Your rowan sounds to be in sturdy middle life and able to deal with a little more of life's diversity. I speak as an ecologist, an arborist may take a different view. May the berries bring you fieldfares and redwings this autumn. And keep witches away.

Probably shaggy scalycap, Pholiota squarrosa, but it does have similar relatives.

Watercolour of a small wood covered island with yachts in front of it

Always painting Inchcailloch, Balmaha bay

Thanks!

Colour photo. Ruined castle on a headland behind waves breaking on a beach. Spray from waves swept back by strong gale. All under a dark, cloudy sky with sunlight almost breaking through.

Watercolour based on previous and similar photos.

Print in black ink from a wood engraving of the same scene.

A stormy autumn day on the Northumberland coast. Dunstanburgh Castle and Embleton Bay. Photo, watercolour and wood engraving print. From the archives - walks and wild weather currently off limits, hopefully not for too long.

Work in progress. The #Nymans cedar.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you!

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Thanks! One of so many things I have time for since retiring from academic science...

If circumstances had been different we'd live there now. However, with Ilkley Moor on our doorstep we can hardly complain.

We have spent time in NW Scotland almost every year for over 40 years, so know it well too. A spiritual home if not a physical one.

Thanks for the repost and the enthusiastic support!

Wood engraving print in black ink. A steep woodland path over tree roots leads to a stile in a broken fence. Beyond, a field, a tree and open sky.

Wood engraving print in black ink. Four thick curvy pine tree trunks dance on the edge of moorland, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A narrow, rocky mountain arête, lit by a low sun from the right.

Wood engraving print in black ink. A bold male stonechat watches me from an unfurling bracken frond as I cross his path on my way to a stile in a drystone wall.

Today I became an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers, a reminder of the imminent entry deadline for the 2026 annual exhibition. Shown, engravings selected by SWE in 2023-5 and a probable entry for 2026. Good news in hard times.

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@lakesstiles.bsky.social - 2 stiles!

A window of a bakery with shelves filled with croissants, buns, cakes a tenement building is also in the reflection

Glasgow’s Burnfield bakery window