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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.

Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…

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/

'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.

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.

Making the Book of Kells one folio at a time scribalstyles.net

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

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)

summer parchment making, a long way off now. scribalstyles.net

insular art available at scribalstyles.net

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on the tiny spirals, to match the scale of the Kells Chi Rho page, (nearly there) scribalstyles.net

SHOP scribalstyles.net/shop/ prints now available of some of my most complex illuminated pages

colouring the woad in on Calumcille ann an Alba. Prints of the finished artwork available at scribalstyles.net/shop

@KimShenber11340 its based on letters from the Book of Kells, so around 800AD, although its latin, I've done this in modern Gaelic

@scribalstyles Lovely work! Re: the Gaelic hand—what is its name and its period/century?

gaelic calligraffiti on parchment, the satire of Breas

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

Teachd Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill, the coming of Finn McCool, traditional pigments on parchment, 2024. Prints now available at scribalstyles.net/shop

The birth of Ossian, traditional pigments on parchment 2021

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