Mat Pringle

@matpringle.bsky.social

4901 Followers 993 Following

Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator. Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/

Charles Bronson in ‘Hard Times’ with a cat.
Carving, inking and printing a linocut illustration of a knight on a horse in front of a boy holding a book.
Lino plate and print of an illustration inspired by the trad folk song ‘False Knight on the Road’.
An illustrated linocut print of a knight on a horse in front of a boy holding a book, digitally coloured. The illustration is on top of a photograph of a path in some woods. Lyrics to the folk song are written underneath.
Leo Kottke’s album ‘6 and 12 String Guitar’ released on Takoma Records in 1969.
Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works’ released on R&S Records.
A quote from the Leonora Carrington novel ‘The Hearing Trumpet’; “People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats…”
A large sunflower in a maze of sunflowers.
A middle aged idiot starts a petrol lawnmower and proceeds to cut some grass.
Poster for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
A selection of linocut illustrations and prints including a ghost, a frog Mummer, a peony with a tiny house inside it, a Midsommar themed print, folk horror bunting, an owl and pussycat print and a devilish flower.
The Om album ‘Advaitic Songs’ released in 2012.
Foil embossed with illustrations of folkloric stuff; standing stones, Mari Lwyd, the sun, hand of glory and an oak leaf.
Gravediggaz album ‘6 Feet Deep’ released on Gee Street in 1994.
Henry Cow’s album ‘Leg End’ originally released in 1973.
Gabor Szabo’s album ‘Bacchanal’ released in 1968 on Skye Records.
Living Body’s album ‘Body Is Working’ released in 2016.
The King Sunny Ade and his African Beats album ‘Juju Music’ released in 1982 on Island Records.
Soul Jazz Records compilation ‘Rumble in the Jungle’.
Northdown Road, chalk graffiti reads JESUS SAVES.
An aggressive looking otter illustration carved into lino.
These Trails self titled album released in 1973 and reissued by Drag City.
Rich Ruth’s album ‘I Survived, It’s Over’ album released in 2022.
Hunters in the Snow a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Illustrated linocut print of a corn dolly next to the plate.
A linocut illustration of a corn dolly or maiden coloured digitally and layered over a photograph of a field in England.
Soul Jazz reggae compilation 400% Dynamite! released in 2000.
Handsome Boy Modelling School ‘So… How’s Your Girl?’ album released in 1999.
Múm’s ‘Finally We Are No One’ released on Fat Cat Records in 2002. Twenty four years ago. Oh sure…
Bob Ray’s ‘Initiation of a Mystic’ psych-lite folk album released in 1970.
Joni Mitchell’s ‘For The Roses’ album released in 1972.
An astronaut surfs on a piece of spaceship wreckage among the stars above a red planet.
Sunset over the sea in Kent.
An illustrated linocut portrait of Curtis Mayfield being inked, printed and revealed.
Two page spread from Jeff Young’s ‘Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay’ with a beach in Cliftonville and the sea in the background.
The Open Mike Eagle album ‘Component System with the Auto Reverse’ released in 2022.
Rick Froberg lino portrait.
The Don Everly’s self titled album released in 1970.
Bill Wells Octet vs Future Pilot AKA record released on Domino in 1998.
Carving, inking and printing a linocut portrait of punk rock musician and artist Rick Froberg of Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes.
A red and black winged moth being held on a finger.
Tom Waits album ‘Closing Time’ released in 1973.
A basement venue with dry ice, flashing lights and really silly but fun hardcore music.
Process video for an illustrated two block linocut print of some brutalist steps in Margate with a sky full of meteors above them. The video shows the ink drawing development, carving the lino, inking up the lino and printing it on an etching press.
A linocut print being lifted from the plate to reveal some brutalist steps in Margate.
A two block illustrated linocut print of the brutalist steps in Cliftonville, Margate with a meteor shower taking place above them.
An illustrated linocut print of the Brutalist steps in Cliftonville, Margate leading down to the tidal pool.
Lino plate of an illustrated hand holding a knife.
A linocut illustration with digital colour of a blood coated hand holding a dagger. Underneath the lyrics to a traditional folk song read ‘And in his hand is a silver dagger, To pierce the one that I love best ‘.
Rolling ink over the plate.
Close up of the Holly King.