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  1. A selkie for #MerMay (the mermaid 🧜‍♀️ celebration month)!

    This is a hard-carved and printed lino block print of a selkie shedding her skin, seated on rocks, surrounded by harbour seals. Each print is made on lovely Japanese washi paper, cream-coloured paper with bark inclusions, 9.25” x 12.5”.

    In Celtic, Norse, Faroese and Icelandic mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or
    selkie folk, 🧵
    #linocut #printmaking #selkie #folklore #harbourSeals #silkies #mermaid #mythology