IngPrintmaker / Ingrid Nilsson

Update! Now also closed Tuesday. Persistent storm..

Currently taking a storm-day off from the West End market in Edinburgh but back at it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11 - 6

Heading for Newcastle 20th - 22nd June for the epic Great Northern Contemporary Craft fair 🙌🧡

More fun than bike riding? Bike riding with a friend🧡🧡

#WorldBicycleDay
Learnt to ride in my 40s, haven’t stopped since 🙏🧡

Swift action anyone? Email Angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.

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Thank you Chloe! I was playing with an idea for making a Lino that looked more like an etching!😊

A gloriously clumsy baby wood pigeon bobbing about on a rowan twig in the blustery wind. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Process..
#printmaking #linoprint #reliefprinting #reductionprint

It’s how I drew hair as a kid😊

‘Cecile’ (an imaginary friend), layers one and two, reduction print. Dark layer first, then white which shows up as a lovely blue-grey. I may leave some like this, and add birds to others.. #printmaking #linoprinting #reductionprint

Haven’t shared my finished Mixed Veg linocut prints, which are hand painted with watercolors. These will be part of my summer drop this weekend! #printsky #printmaking #artsky #illustrator

Missed last week’s #printpromptmonday as I don’t think I’ve ever successfully carved text! This week’s #growth is still a challenge but gone for this.. Ganesha in progress on the grounds that he’s a sized-up version of an older print😬 (pictured)

Female blackbird executing an excellent side-to-side hop along the fence top, ignoring squabbling jackdaws 🧡
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

A jackdaw doing his stiff-legged little march along the fence. Clearly places to go..
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

Hell they love a juicy worm😂

Pair of magpies chattering in the dawn. Always manage to seem as if they are plotting something nefarious.
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

First woodblock print incoming! (In between three commissions..🧡)

Getting a good dose of the westerlies up Allermuir this morning 💙

Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

THE GUARDIAN: Labour's surprising U-turn on swift bricks ignites backlash as endangered birds face housing crisis. Activists and the public rally for wildlife-friendly building amid growing governmental disconnect.

- by Patrick Barkham

Male bullfinch braving some choppy winds to come right down and watch what Stu was putting in the feeder
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

A gorgeous monochrome pigeon, which in another body could be a Friesian or Appaloosa 🖤🤍
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

The sweetest solo from a robin almost concealed in the cherry. Only wisps of cloud above. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Unbelievable. 🤬

Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them

Lovely puffed wood pigeon
#FirstBirdOfMyDay

Looks like the blackbirds here might be up for another batch too!

Looked out just in time to catch the tail of a wren’s song, then its actual tail as it fleeted out of the apple tree🧡 #FirstBirdOfMyDay

swift brick chat in the House of Lords, at Zac Goldsmith’s event ‘Saving Swifts From Extinction’. This week The Planning & Infrastructure Bill committee will likely vote against the swift brick amendment. Please email your MP asking them to sign this edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...