Mourning Glory

Mourning Glory A novice taxidermist of 5yrs specialising in ethical entomology (insects/invetebrates) taxidermy.

🌾 Walkabout 🌾I found a red admiral walking back home sat on the pavement, nearly stepping on it myself, i am not sure if...
08/08/2026

🌾 Walkabout 🌾

I found a red admiral walking back home sat on the pavement, nearly stepping on it myself, i am not sure if its freshly emerged and the wings were still unfolding or if it was on its way out.

Mixing sugar water and encouraging it with a paintbrush, it finally put its proboscis in to drink.

Left over night on our window sill, its still here this morning alive now with the window open if it wants to go. May need the morning sun to warm its wings. 🤞🤞🤞

🌾 Walkabout 🌾I found this snail on my walk back from my local garage, 24° and a dry hot pavement. I can only imagine how...
07/08/2026

🌾 Walkabout 🌾

I found this snail on my walk back from my local garage, 24° and a dry hot pavement.

I can only imagine how it felt being picked up by a giant, travelling at the speed of human, taken into a fortress' pantry to be given a huge slice of cucumber before ending up in a mossy, kingdom with foxgloves, toad flax and shiny rocks.

I'm just glad he was out of the heat and footfall.

🖤 A.C.E.O Cards 🖤Jersey Tiger Moth coming up, next colour pattern carved for when the orange dries. The registration mou...
06/08/2026

🖤 A.C.E.O Cards 🖤

Jersey Tiger Moth coming up, next colour pattern carved for when the orange dries. The registration mould has worked its magic and is bang on each time 🥳

🖤 A.C.E.O Cards 🖤So, I know lino printers use registration tabs for alignment, my prints are 64mmx89mm and I knocked up ...
05/08/2026

🖤 A.C.E.O Cards 🖤

So, I know lino printers use registration tabs for alignment, my prints are 64mmx89mm and I knocked up a protoype registration mould out of cardboard.

This ensures the stamp is placed in the same place for repeated presses in colour change application.

🖤A.C.E.O Cards 🖤The Garden Tiger Moths now have a background, gold antennae and stars. Still drying out as the lino ink ...
04/08/2026

🖤A.C.E.O Cards 🖤

The Garden Tiger Moths now have a background, gold antennae and stars.

Still drying out as the lino ink is quite tacky, but soon to have a backing card, and some other little addition to them.

🖤A.C.E.O Mourning Glory Cards 🖤Slowly coming together, should be my catchphrase but that is handmade arts allure. This i...
03/08/2026

🖤A.C.E.O Mourning Glory Cards 🖤

Slowly coming together, should be my catchphrase but that is handmade arts allure.

This is reductive lino printing where you print in negatives taking away layer by layer of the colour you want to keep.

Have you ever head of A.C.E.O cards ? Standing for art cards, first editions and originals its a skill process artists u...
02/08/2026

Have you ever head of A.C.E.O cards ?

Standing for art cards, first editions and originals its a skill process artists utilise for honing their skills, trying new techniques and prototype ideas.

All this time I have been drafting ideas , playing with mediums I could have done it on a 69mm x 89mm and selling them to fund materials and promote my artwork.

Its also a lower price point for customers to appreciate , collect and trade your work like trading cards i.e Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh (showing my age). But in this case Moths, Butterflies and insects 😄🦋

So, these are the first batch of my Mourning Glory A.C.E.O cards, a lino reduction litho ink Jersey Tiger Moth.

Sometimes we just have to go back to the beginning, I found my old sketch book which started Mourning Glory. But many do...
01/08/2026

Sometimes we just have to go back to the beginning, I found my old sketch book which started Mourning Glory.

But many don't know it was once 'the witches pantry' or other trial names like the hedgerow apiary before finally settling on 'Mourning (their) Glory'.

I started doodling backgrounds and made a few frames in 2020 to take my mind off my partner being severely ill, turned out to be embolism in his lungs and long covid, our cancelled wedding day that August we had planned for and the worldwide pandemic I was told would still be working throughout.

This sketchbook looks like its been in a building thats demolished! Full of ideas used and unused, random doodles and lots of fun.

Craft stalls i was more of a display of curiosity than seen as a seller but I was recommended to call the stoke road emporium where I met Sue and her daughter Shelley and they helped my frames be appreciated but also sell.

Anyway I will get to the point of this, I will be returning my residency to The Stoke Emporium with small batch drops. 🥳

🌻 Mourning Glory Garden 🌻Excited was not the word when I discovered the M.G garden had attracted a Cinnabar moth to lay ...
27/07/2026

🌻 Mourning Glory Garden 🌻

Excited was not the word when I discovered the M.G garden had attracted a Cinnabar moth to lay eggs and three caterpillars were feeding on ragwort growing out of a pot.

Soon to relocate to the local park as there isn't enough for them to eat.

🎨 Background Design 🎨Making some clay mushrooms for the new frames Background, all different sizes to be painted once dr...
26/07/2026

🎨 Background Design 🎨

Making some clay mushrooms for the new frames Background, all different sizes to be painted once dried.

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