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A fictional adult clay figure in an ochre sweater raises a wide ceramic cup to the lips with both hands in a coil built clay sculpture with a curl of steam and a tiled shelf.

Adult Clay Figure Sipping From a Wide Cup

A sketchbook page shows five different small stone carvings in a row, a pebble, a pillar, a flat tile, a squat block and an arch, each with a different abstract relief.

Sketchbook Page of Five Small Stone Carvings

A miniature close view of a door-bearing plant at dusk with its arched doorway's leaf-frame slowly folding shut like praying hands and a sliver of starlit sky still visible through the gap, thick palette-knife daubs forming soil, leaves and deep blue sky.

Miniature Doorway Slowly Folding Shut at Dusk

A layered compost heap built from folk patterned patchwork bands of scraps, leaves, grass and dark compost stands beside a pitchfork and a wheelbarrow with seedlings behind a garden fence.

Layered Compost Heap Made of Folk Pattern Patchwork Bands

The exposed roots of an old tree curl and branch over stones on a rocky bank with soil and fallen leaves in burnished tooled leather relief.

Exposed Tree Roots Over Rocks in Tooled Leather

A row of five wooden spoons of different sizes is segmented into patchwork panels of herringbone, zigzag and dotted grain in earthy colours on cream paper beside a small bowl.

Five Wooden Spoons in Patchwork Folk Patterns

A miniature vast gentle moss-backed creature lies down beside a still lake at dusk with its head lowered to the water and its shell market folded up with awnings furled and a few lanterns glowing, thick palette-knife daubs forming lake, hills and deep blue sky.

Miniature Creature Rests Beside a Still Lake at Dusk

A round terracotta teapot of stacked clay coils with a spiral spout, coiled handle and lid knob, a mustard coil band, on a cream clay slab.

Coil-Built Clay Teapot With a Spiral Spout

A torn sheet of pale leaf skeletons lies over a second sheet of pressed green leaves with a ragged edge revealing the green beneath and a few petals on the seam.

Torn Leaf Skeleton Sheet Over a Pressed Green Sheet

A pair of worn gardening gloves lies beside a small seedling in a terracotta pot on a pale wooden bench with a trowel, all assembled from pressed leaves and petals.

Gardening Gloves Beside a Seedling Made of Pressed Leaves

A coiled straw skep beehive on a wooden stand in a cream field, a tall daisy-like flower with a yellow centre beside it and seven charcoal bees circling it, a pale sun above.

Relief Print Beehive Circled by Bees Around One Flower

Layered prairie paper in rust, olive and ochre has a large torn bison shaped opening with folded flaps and fibrous edges showing warm white behind and small paper scraps on the ground below.

Bison Shaped Opening Torn Out of Prairie Paper Layers

Walk finds are sorted into groups by colour on a linen cloth on a kitchen table, with pebbles and a feather on the left, sea glass in the middle and acorns, a pine cone and a red leaf on the right.

Pebbles, Feather, Sea Glass and Acorns Sorted by Color

A small rounded stone arch bridge crosses a teal stream beside a village of terracotta-roofed cottages with a willow and a pink bush in cut felt.

Stone Arch Bridge Beside a Village in Felt

A fully clothed adult in a plum apron sits at a pottery wheel with both hands cupped around a spinning mound of wet clay beside a water bucket and shelves of bowls.

Adult Centering Wet Clay on the Wheel

The Celtic goddess Brigid with a flame crown and a woven cloak holds a torch and a harp at a sacred well beside a forge fire with a cow in inlaid wood within a knotwork border.

Celtic Goddess Brigid With Flame Crown at Sacred Well

A street of tiny round doorways and lit windows is built into the felt band of a vast upturned grey hat on a wooden shelf while thumb-sized residents including a Samoan woman with a long black braid and mustard shawl carry baskets along it in warm morning light.

A Street of Doorways Built Into a Giant Hat

A fully clothed adult in a grey apron trims the foot of an upturned leather hard bowl on a wheel with a loop tool as clay curls fall beside a sponge and a wooden rib.

Adult Trimming the Foot of a Leather Hard Bowl

Seen from below, the underside of a floating island is a ceiling of dark earth and pale tangled roots with tall pale-barked trunks hanging down from it, crowned with soft turquoise and gold leaves in dappled golden light with moss in the hollows.

Pale Roots Above and Trunks Hanging Below

A fossil fern frond in charcoal and rust is pressed into a pale clay slab before angled cubist planes of painted faux wood grain in honey and walnut and flat teal and cream.

Fossil Fern Frond Pressed Into Clay Before Cubist Planes

A fully clothed adult in a rust apron presses a pulled clay handle onto a leather hard mug at a sunlit table beside a cup of slip and a row of mugs in broken watercolor washes.

Adult Attaching a Pulled Handle to a Clay Mug

A garden seen from above as neat rectangular beds of pressed fern, rose petals, maple leaves and lavender with a round marigold bed at the centre.

Garden Beds Seen From Above in Pressed Plants

Needle-felted wool slice of a ginger highland cow standing in a misty moor of oat and heather fibers, scattering into loose fibers on a pale putty field.

Highland Cow Felted Moor Slice

A happy adult gardener in a straw hat and apron tends raised beds of tomatoes, kale and herbs on an urban rooftop farm with a watering can and city rooftops behind.

Urban Gardener in Outlined Painted Color Cells

A young oak sapling stands in a freshly dug mound of soil with a spade, a watering can and a stake drawn in faceted vivid green, orange and violet planes on a dark chalk marked ground.

Young Oak Sapling Planted in a Fresh Soil Mound

Two sparrows hop along the eaves of a small round house reweaving a broken nest frame with twigs from their beaks while a third passes up a bundle of straw from the cobbles in a narrow lane of tiny animal workshops in midday light.

Sparrows Reweave a Broken Nest on the Eaves

A long post and rail ranch fence runs diagonally across a grassy slope with a coil of wire at the near post under a blue grey sky in fitted wood pieces.

Post and Rail Ranch Fence Across a Grassy Slope

Cloth-awning market stalls and small crates fill an open giant matchbox on a shelf edge beside a row of tall pale matches while thumb-sized residents trade and carry bundles, including a Samoan woman with a long black braid haggling over a basket of berries.

Miniature Market Stalls and Residents Inside Giant Matchbox

A fox assembled from rust, orange and gold pressed leaves with a pale petal tail, bark-brown leaf-strip trunks behind, fallen yellow and red leaves below, cream paper.

Pressed Autumn Leaves Form a Fox Running Through a Forest

Risograph-style poster background for a kids halloween event: a burnt-orange pumpkin-shaped play tent with an open green doorway stands on a sparse grass line while a flat morning sun with a thin navy ring rises from behind its left side, three tiny birds sit high right, and the calm cream upper half stays open for a headline, printed in burnt orange, navy and leaf green on cream paper.

Fright-free family morning — pumpkin play tent under a rising riso sun

A fictional adult man in a sage apron pots seedlings at a bench in a greenhouse among oversized pastel blooms covered in fine pen patterns.

Adult Man Potting Seedlings Among Pastel Blooms

A fabric hedgehog and a felt mouse sort dried seed heads into small cotton envelopes at a knitted potting bench with tiny bead seeds and jars in a miniature textile diorama.

Felt Hedgehog and Mouse Sorting Seeds at a Bench

A small hillside town of low houses stacked in steps up a gentle slope shows each house in a different colour swatch with a church tower and a water tower on white.

Hillside Town of Low Houses in Patchwork Colour

A small figure in a sand robe kneels beside a tiny mustard seed while a great paper mustard tree rises behind through layered planes where paper birds perch and nest in a pop up stage.

Mustard Seed Becoming a Great Paper Tree With Birds

A fictional adult woman sits cross legged reading a blank pastel book at the centre of a dense garden of oversized blooms, leaves and mushrooms with a small teapot on a stump beside her.

Adult Reader Sitting Inside a Dense Ornamental Garden

Top-down still-life of pressed maple, birch, and fern on fibrous off-white paper with deckled edges, arranged airy for print clarity, with warm tones #D9B35A, #7C2B3A, #6B8A4C, #F6F2EA, #C8B79A.

Pressed Leaves on Handmade Paper Still-Life

A repaired ceramic bowl sits on a carpenter's bench, surrounded by three very different discarded repair materials, with only a plain staple visibly doing the work.

Repaired Ceramic Bowl With Staple on Carpenter's Bench

Tall poppy, cornflower and daisy blooms on scribbled stems are visited by a honeybee, a hoverfly and a small butterfly with looping flight lines in a retro scribble and wash illustration on cream paper.

Wildflowers and Pollinators in a Retro Scribble Meadow

A family of four travellers with bundles climbs a wide wooden ramp onto the shell of a vast gentle moss-backed creature while a grey-braided stallholder in a red apron welcomes them at the top holding a small tin cup of water out to the smallest child.

Travelling Family Boards the Creature's Shell by Ramp

Three downward-growing trees of different ages hang side by side from the underside of a floating island, a tiny sprouting seedling, a slender young sapling and a tall mature tree with a full crown, all pale-barked with turquoise and gold leaves in soft golden light.

Three Growth Stages of a Downward Tree

Ink and gouache character study of a gentle storm spirit holding an oversized teacup, its steam forming a small cloud that rains back into the cup.

Small Storm Spirit Brewing Tea

Botanical poster with a flag of wheat rows and roses under a blue star flower canton. Thirteen stripes and a starry canton print neat.

Botanical Flag Poster With Wheat

The Maya moon goddess Ixchel with a coiled serpent crown weaves at a backstrap loom with a rabbit on her lap beneath a crescent moon and a ceiba tree in stitched yarn.

Maya Moon Goddess Ixchel Weaving Beside a Ceiba Tree

A river seen from above in blue paper pulp winding through green and ochre pulp fields, one cream pulp bridge at the middle bend, a dark green tree line on the left bank.

One Blue River Winds Through Pressed Pulp Fields

An elegant woman with a white parasol emerges from layered golden leaves and delicate paper on charcoal felt, lit to reveal fine veins and edges.

Leaf Dancer Beneath a Paper Parasol

Softly folded thick paper forms dry foothills in rust, ochre and sage with a large crouching mountain lion shaped opening cut through the layers showing plain cream behind and soft shadows.

Mountain Lion Shaped Opening in Softly Folded Dry Hills

A handbuilt diorama photograph of a tiny lost-property office beneath a garden step, seen in cross-section; a small beetle clerk holds a tiny earring up into one crack of daylight while a coat button and a seed wait in two of three large open drawers with cream fronts and one brass knob.

Beetle Clerk Checking an Earring by Daylight

A brick-red pottery kiln with a tall chimney beside stacked clay pots sends up smoke of coiled grey and lilac quilled paper spirals over cutout hills.

Kiln Smoke Rising in Quilled Paper Relief

A sower in a sand tunic scatters seed across four stacked paper strips of stony ground, thorns, a path with small birds and a golden field beneath a quilled sun in a sculptural paper relief.

The Sower Scattering Seed Across Four Layers of Soil

A red-haired woman in a moss-green apron serves customers from a small stall on a broad branch of an enormous tree, baskets of red apples and loaves on the counter and a basket being lowered on a rope pulley to a lower branch among green leaves.

Tree Grocer Serves Customers From a Branch Stall

Shiva sits cross legged playing a small hourglass drum with a trident at his side, a crescent moon, a third eye and a snake around his neck in earthy folk patchwork panels.

Shiva Playing a Small Hourglass Drum in Patchwork

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