XPHAIEA

Artwork of a human figure wearing tattered clothes and with empty sightless eyes drifting above a landscape of scrawny scattered pine trees

#Ghost over the trees (1931) by Franz Sedlacek #PhantomsFriday

Photo of a textile art doll in plain calico with fabric sculpted limbs.

Beginning something new...

#textilesculpture

Photo of a mixed media doll made from fabrics, bones, wood and wire. Grotesque and macabre in shades of green with red accents and lots of texture.

𝕸𝖆𝖉𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖘𝖓𝖚𝖋𝖋

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#macabre #horror #modelmaker #weirddolls #grotesque

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Photo of three Bellarmine jars with humanoid features and carved/moulded leaf decoration

Some Bellarmine jars we came across in an antique shop several years ago.

One of them ended up being acquired for the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall

Detail photo of some crustacean-like chitinous legs made from fabric and painted to create texture.

Some small components of the current piece I'm working on!

#textileart #miniature #modelmaking

Photo of the book 'The Mind in the Cave' by David Lewis-Williams

Finally got my hands on a copy of this which I've wanted to read for years!

#currentlyreading

Thanks so much!

Photo of a spine-like circle and stuffed calico shapes

Something wicked this way comes...

Screenshot of my website page showing my available art dolls available.

Morning #Bluesky 🌞
Sharing this page from my website to show you a few of my available artworks.
Each character is unique and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect 🌿
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#mhhsbd #artforsale #originalart #art #textileart #handmade #bsnm

Photo of two handmade textile troll dolls in earthy colours and textures

Two very very early XPHAIEA creations... the trolls Grizzluth and Kiraeth.

I've progressed a lot with construction and finishing since making these but they still have an essence of what my work has become.

#troll #trolls #goblincore #doll

Photo of a hand holding a textile art doll in the shape of a whale with human face and long dreaded hair, with beading and artic fox mask headdress and driftwood antlers

𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙄𝙉𝘼:𝙑𝙐𝙇𝙋𝙄𝙉𝘼:𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙄𝙁𝙀𝙍

New piece now available!

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Luke's review of the music of Autechre:

"sounds like a tap dripping"

🤣

Holbein sketch of a girl with long golden hair, looking rather sadly downwards

It’s hard being emo in the 16th century

Photo of a textile art doll, a 'sea hag' highly textured with paint and beading, fur and silk yarn

Carabanthe, a Sea Hag • 2022

#textileart #ooakdoll #horror

Yeah I ordered these online but it took a lot of searching to find them! 🤣

My first instinct when I see an animal is to say “hello”

My first instinct when I see a person is to avoid eye contact & hope it goes away

Same! White is too harsh in most cases. I find off white and this sandy colour are quite hard to find so was pleased!!

Also picked up these too as they were all on sale. It would have been rude not to 🤷🏻‍♂️

Transparent plastic bag full of tiny beige colour beads

Finally found somewhere that sells this 'off white beige' colour of seed beads in size 11 and bought their entire remaining stock 🤣

tiny hummingbird nest made of detritus atop the bulb of a tea light. a juvenile broad-winged hummingbird is hunkered down in it

broad-tailed hummingbirds built a nest atop a tea light on a friend's front porch. one bird fledged yesterday, and one kiddo (who I saw flying, too) was hanging around for more food from mom #birds

Being alive is f*cking exhausting 😩

Handmade felt patch of an amanita muscaria mushroom with sprigs of lavender

Can't believe it was 7 years ago that I made these little #amanita patches 🤯

#embroidery #mycology

Handpainted card of a fantasy style face in a horseshoe crab shape

Birthday card I painted a few years ago for a friend

#painting #fantasy #mystic

"Parsley seed goes 9 times to the devil," meaning farmer had to sow parsley seeds 9 times before successful crop can grow.Used against adder’s bite.Place ‘very fine dust of this plant’ in wine as a drink and for ‘pounded plant’ to be placed against wound. #Folklore

Hand sewn grey felt patch depicting a grotesque vulture-like head with horns in black thread

Hand stitched Austin Osman Spare 'KIA' felt patch from several years ago

Aww thanks so much haha 🤣

Thank you! 🌞

Seven leaves machine stitched in calico

This morning has been spent making these 7 leaves

HOT TIP: Do not attempt to sit on the floor bending over a tiny steaming iron in this heat 😩