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Krampus Head in Black and White – Limited Edition – Linoprint
Season beatings! Gruß vom Krampus!
Alpine folklore brings us Krampus, the friend of St Nicholas, and whilst St Nicholas rewards the good little boys and girls at Christmas time, Krampus punishes them, either by thrashing them with branches or carrying them off in a potato sack or a basket on his back. Also available in colour in this very shop!£21.95 Sold by: Tarraway Hoofpress -
The Harbourside Bucca – Cornish Spirit – Limited Edition Lino Print
Based in Cornwall in the darker time of the year, with glimmers of light in the form of the village fairy lights, illuminated lighthouse, starlight and full moon, we quake in our boots at the howling and whooping of the local buccas, (Cornish devils or earth spirits) whose calls can be heard in certain coves and areas of villages on particularly stormy nights. The scene is also illuminated with a gigantic pair of glowing eyes and moonlit details including large fangs. However, he may well be harmless and a spirit who watches over fishermen, who would often leave offerings of fish in a designated area for the bucca. Based on an amalgamation of stories from the Newlun area and places with “bucca” in the place name”.
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The Sinner’s Procession – Original Limited Edition Lino Print – Black and White
Inspired by the strange demons that appear in Bosche’s paintings and the margins of illuminated manuscript, this is a party procession for a newly arrived sinner, who screams in horror at his new abode in the afterlife. The Pall bearers are a mishmash of creatures, who celebrate his arrival with much noise and false pomp.
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“You May Call Me ‘Captain'” – Tarraway – A5 Art Print
This fellow is a Cornish Rumplestiltskin style version of a Devil, who appears in an old Cornish Christmas play or a guise dance called “Duffy and the Devil” originally from the Penwith area, specifically St Buryan.
Also known as drolls, this story involves a girl, called Duffy who is taken in by Squire Lovell of Trove, and set to spinning yarn after claiming she can make the finest stockings. This, however is untrue, and she makes a pact with a Bucca (Cornish meaning: Devil) that he should spin the yarnin return for joining him after three years has passed, unless she can tell him his name upon asking, if she couldn’t, she was his. In a sneaky bid to gain his name she addressed him as “Mister what do I call ‘ee?” To which he cunningly responds “You may call me Captain” from Duffy and the Bucca or Duffy and the Devil.
Also Available in a double pack with the Vampire and Sphinx cat in this shop.
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Vampire and a Sphinx Cat – A5 Art Print
Using his knowledge of scrying to see what the world has in store for him, he did not see his familiar giving him a surprise, and so angry for a little cat too!
Rocking a look that Inquisitors would envy, he dresses for the thing that he craves the most, it hides any spillages too!
Also available in a double feature pack with Tarraway the Cornish Bucca.
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Vampire & Devil – A5 Art Print Double Feature
One fellow is a Cornish Rumplestiltskin style version of a Devil, who appears in an old Cornish Christmas play or a guise dance called “Duffy and the Devil” originally from the Penwith area, specifically St Buryan.
Also known as drolls, this story involves a girl, called Duffy who is taken in by Squire Lovell of Trove, and set to spinning yarn after claiming she can make the finest stockings. This, however is untrue, and she makes a pact with a Bucca (Cornish meaning: Devil) that he should spin the yarnin return for joining him after three years has passed, unless she can tell him his name upon asking, if she couldn’t, she was his. In a sneaky bid to gain his name she addressed him as “Mister what do I call ‘ee?” To which he cunningly responds “You may call me Captain” from Duffy and the Bucca or Duffy and the Devil.
The other uses his knowledge of scrying to see what the world has in store for him, he did not see his familiar giving him a surprise, and so angry for a little cat
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UFEye – A5 Art Print – Alien – UFO – All-Seeing Eye
Taking symbolic imagery of the All-Seeing Eye and the idea of Flying Saucers, the combination resulted in this image, I for one welcome our alien overlords.
£6.95 Buy 2 to get 15% discount Sold by: Tarraway HoofpressUFEye – A5 Art Print – Alien – UFO – All-Seeing Eye
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Here Be Monsters – Limited Edition – Hand printed & painted Linoprint
Inspired from reading some of the historical newspaper stories that can be found in The Pine Barren Institute’s “Monsters in Print” compiled by Adam Benedict, my psyche was visited by this Giant Sea Lady, gorging herself on boats and ships, crunching through bows and sterns on moonlit nights. Here Be Monsters!
Colours may differ slightly from the screen image and sister prints due to the nature of their production, (all hand finished and painted by me)
£80.00 Buy 2 to get 8% discount Sold by: Tarraway HoofpressHere Be Monsters – Limited Edition – Hand printed & painted Linoprint
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I.O.O.F Oddfellows Hand of Friendship – Lino Print – Limited Edition
The Hand of Friendship, a symbol of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, I love the symbolism of fraternal societies and will be working with more using my visual interpretations.
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Fire in the Hole – Devil and Sinner – Limited Edition Lino Print
Bit warm up here on the planes of Earth isn’t it?
I just can’t seem to depict the more popular images of beaches, fishing boats, and the refreshing sea, so I’ve got a devil firing a sinner into the inferno from a cannon, using his own unholy farts to light the fuse.
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Season’s Beatings – Krampus – Gold & Red on Black
Have you been naughty or nice this year? You will know which should this fellow head your way, a lump of coal is the mildest punishment, a thrashing with a bundle of sticks let’s you know that thing you did was pretty bad, a ride in the basket shows that thing was truly unforgivable and you should prepare yourself for being feasted upon by St Nicholas’ hellish companion, the Krampus.
An Alpine Christmas figure of the devil variety, this one eats really naughty kids and serve as a deterrent for bad behaviour, a house visit from the Christmas saint and devil or parades still happen in areas of Austria, German and the Alps. I have made a making of this print for patrons on Patreon should this be of interest, find me under GurdyBird!
More colour combinations are on the way, red ink on white paper, black ink on red paper, and other possibilities! Black on white is available from this shop! Krampus is a way of life, so please bare with me for these variations.
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Season’s Beatings in Black on Red – Limited Edition – Krampus Linoprint
Have you been naughty or nice this year? You will know which should this fellow head your way, a lump of coal is the mildest punishment, a thrashing with a bundle of sticks let’s you know that thing you did was pretty bad, a ride in the basket shows that thing was truly unforgivable and you should prepare yourself for being feasted upon by St Nicholas’ hellish companion, the Krampus.
An Alpine Christmas figure of the devil variety, this one eats really naughty kids and serve as a deterrent for bad behaviour, a house visit from the Christmas saint and devil or parades still happen in areas of Austria, German and the Alps.
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Krampus Head in Colour – Limited Edition – Linoprint – Hand Painted
Season beatings! Gruß vom Krampus!
Alpine folklore brings us Krampus, the friend of St Nicholas, and whilst St Nicholas rewards the good little boys and girls at Christmas time, Krampus punishes them, either by thrashing them with branches or carrying them off in a potato sack or a basket on his back. Also available in a line mono print version in this very shop!£31.95 Sold by: Tarraway Hoofpress -
Ad Quod Damnum – Lino Print Devil – Tiny Print – Hand Painted – In Green
Inspired by the inhabitants of The Garden of Earthly Delights, I wanted to produce a small devil which seems to be a recurring theme, given the name and theme of the legend of Tarraway. I want to create a few characters of this size and demonic persuasion as a set. “Ad Quod Damnum” translates to “Appropriate to the Harm” which felt appropriate to a demon’s lot.
This fellow is green with metallic detail.
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Ad Quod Damnum – Lino Print Devil – Tiny Print – Hand Painted – In Red
Inspired by the inhabitants of The Garden of Earthly Delights, I wanted to produce a small devil which seems to be a recurring theme, given the name and theme of the legend of Tarraway. I want to create a few characters of this size and demonic persuasion as a set. “Ad Quod Damnum” translates to “Appropriate to the Harm” which felt appropriate to a demon’s lot.
This fellow is red with metallic detail.
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Dr Theobald the Rat Plague Doctor – Linoprint
Based on the characters of Montol Festival’s guise guild of quack doctors, The Splendid League of Physicians, most of whom are known as Dr. Theobald. Found within the tricorn of Dr Theobald Ph.D, the founder, is a small rat wearing his own tricorn and beaked mask. The Splendid League of Physicians is an equal opportunities employer and that young Dr. Theobald, here, happens to be a rat serves to stop the black death almost at the root of the problem. Here he has been immortalised with his robe, physicians’ cane and doctors’ bag.
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The Witch – Full Colour Lino Print – Hand Coloured – Gold –
Inspired by the old woodcuts depicted the shenanigans of the sorts of witches found in old chapbooks, but coloured using similar colours found in illuminated manuscripts, with lustrous gold details. Surrounded by many eyes, possibly of spirits, familiars or supernatural agents. This was great fun to do, and is fairly dinky but striking.
Please be aware colours may differ slightly to this digital image.
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Season’s Beatings – Black and White – Krampus – Gruß vom Krampus –
Have you been naughty or nice this year? You will know which should this fellow head your way, a lump of coal is the mildest punishment, a thrashing with a bundle of sticks let’s you know that thing you did was pretty bad, a ride in the basket shows that thing was truly unforgivable and you should prepare yourself for being feasted upon by St Nicholas’ hellish companion, the Krampus.
An Alpine Christmas figure of the devil variety, this one eats really naughty kids and serve as a deterrent for bad behaviour, a house visit from the Christmas saint and devil or parades still happen in areas of Austria, German and the Alps.
More colour combinations are on the way, red ink on white paper, black ink on red paper, gold ink on black paper and other possibilities! Krampus is a way of life, so please bare with me for these variations.
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September’s End – Limited Edition – Lino print Original
Legend has it that when Michael cast the Devil out of Heaven, he landed backside first into a blackberry bush. This incident is the root of the superstition that Blackberries should be plucked and eaten before the 29th September (known as Michaelmas) as any left hanging from the thorny stems following this date are defiled by the Devil in the form of him spitting upon the, placing his foot on them or in this case by passing water over them, in memorial rage at his sore landing.
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Westward Leading – We Three Kings – Angel Flying a UFO – Lino print
A slight detour from the Devil work I do, ’ Westward Leading is taken from the Christmas Carol “We Three Kings” and I like the idea of the figures of angels and demons actually being aliens, so the thought of an angel landing in a spaceship made me consider why anyone would be scared seeing one in Biblical times. Wouldn’t you be? In this thought, this Angel is the “Star of Wonder”, leading the three wise men to Bethlehem, at the birth of Christ. The colour version has been lovingly hand painted in acrylic inks, paints and has a gorgeous shimmering gold finish, colours may not be exact to this image. It is also available in black and white in this shop as well as in Greeting Card form.
£33.95 Buy 2 to get 10% discount Sold by: Tarraway HoofpressWestward Leading – We Three Kings – Angel Flying a UFO – Lino print
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Westward Leading – We Three Kings – Angel Flying a UFO – Black and White version
A slight detour from the Devil work I do, ’ Westward Leading is taken from the Christmas Carol “We Three Kings” and I like the idea of the figures of angels and demons actually being aliens, so the thought of an angel landing in a spaceship made me consider why anyone would be scared seeing one in Biblical times. Wouldn’t you be? In this thought, this Angel is the “Star of Wonder”, leading the three wise men to Bethlehem, at the birth of Christ. It is also available in full colour in this shop.
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La Bruja – Black and White – Limited Edition – Witch Lino print
Inspired by historical imagery of witches and demons frolicking together, with illuminated manuscripts as another source of inspiration, I also like modern captures of unusual things caught on film, whether real or not or hereby unexplained, a video of something that looks like a stereotypically historical depiction of a witch caught my imagination and spurred on this image. As this video referred to what was captured in Spanish, “La Bruja”, I kept the title.
Also available in full colour.
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La Bruja – Full Colour – Limited Edition Hand-Painted Witch Linoprint
Inspired by historical imagery of witches and demons frolicking together, with illuminated manuscripts as another source of inspiration, I also like modern captures of unusual things caught on film, whether real or not or hereby unexplained, a video of something that looks like a stereotypically historical depiction of a witch caught my imagination and spurred on this image. As this video referred to what was captured in Spanish, “La Bruja”, I kept the title.
Also Available in black and white.
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Reverend Dodge Driving a Devil out of the Parish – Lino Print
This image depicts the Rev. Richard Dodge, Parson of Talland in Cornwall, doing what he was famous for. He was parson of Talland from 1713 until he died aged 93 in 1747, and was widely reputed to be able to raise the dead, lay ghosts to rest and he was also believed to be able to exorcise devils from places and used a horsewhip in carrying out these tasks.
People were often fearful of meeting him in the dead of night, as no doubt, a spirit or demon would also be in close range, but it is also believed that he courted these attitudes as he could have been involved with smuggling and wanted to keep the way free to assist the smugglers.
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Dr Theobald The Astrologer – Plague Doctor – Lino Print
I am very inspired by the look of the plague doctor. So much so in fact I also make masks, and part of Montol involves groups of similarly dressed people in guilds roaming the streets of Penzance on the 21st December every year and entertaining people at the various pubs they stop in. I have made a guild of quack doctors who play music, and add comedy to the evening, with out dated and terrifying cures and questionable sick notes for those who wish to stay in bed the following day. We also have a guise beast called Ratael, a sort of mutant plague-ridden Obby Oss in the form of a rat.
All except two of the members of the guild are called Dr. Theobald, and this fellow examines the stars from his tower to inform the other doctors if planets are aligning in a particular manner as a warning of plague. A very, very, very former Dr. Theobald has donated his body for medical research in the background.
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Dr Theobald the Scourger –
I am very inspired by the look of the plague doctor. So much so in fact I also make masks, and part of Montol involves groups of similarly dressed people in guilds roaming the streets of Penzance on the 21st December every year and entertaining people at the various pubs they stop in. I have made a guild of quack doctors who play music, and add comedy to the evening, with out dated and terrifying cures and questionable sick notes for those who wish to stay in bed the following day. We also have a guise beast called Ratael, a sort of mutant plague-ridden Obby Oss in the form of a rat.
All except two of the members of the guild are called Dr. Theobald, and this fellow beats the demons and illness out of patients, upon his robes are embroidered leeches, a quacks favoured company. He is just about to set to his evening business, and there will be a lot of people in need of his services tonight, as a meteor has foretold him of this news.
*Disclaimer* This was designed circa 2015, but apparently foretold some events in 2020
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