Tiny Owl Workshop

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Award winning micro publisher and sculptor. Maker of curious things.

Three green wide-eyed grumpy heads from the film Spirited away.
A bedraggled and exhausted young woman wearing a pumpkin head t-shirt is helped through brown floodwaters by two others. Directly behind her is a tinny (boat) and the locals who saved her. She saved her two cats. The house was not salvageable.
Cover of Make Believe by Mac Barnett. Gorgeous cover artwork by Carson Ellis centres a reading child surrounded by riso-print style images of flowers, ghosts, toads and other critters, a skull and other fantastical and unsettling imaginings.
Jumble of old wooden typography.
Sculpt of many legged figure walking with the assistance of a walking stick. She is robed in black and carries a basket of flowers on her back. Lots of greenery in the background - camelia bush and rosemary mostly.
Cat - who usually refuses to have his photo taken - sitting staring into the canera in foreground, sculpture in background.
Cropped black and white photo of Gardening Australia’s Jerry Coleby-Williams. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/jerry-coleby-williams-gardening-australia-mardi-gras/106380690
Work in progress. Unfinished sculpted faun wearing a vest and high collar gazes at the dried posy he's holding.
Cover for Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins. A plain white cover with a black and white photo of British troops aiming the rifles toward the viewer. The title Legacy of Violence is printed in bright red.
Book cover of Dream Keeper by Anna Walker. Soft water colour or pencil illustration of a tortoise rowing a small boat away from an island filled with animals (giraffe, crocodile, tiger, dragon) holding lanterns.
Etching of Joseph Conrad with well-groomed musketeer beard and moustache. Looking quite judgey in a colonial way. The etched border of the image is decorative and littered with images of plants, the Sun, a tall ship, the Earth and shells. Taken from his book Youth and Gaspar Ruiz.
A red brick, steepled church is visible through the tree tops. The sky is filled with sweeps of luminous orange and grey clouds. The light in the church vestry adds another source of light.
Time of the Child by Niall Williams. Orange cover, bright white title, main image of a snow covered church and stark wintry trees.
Photo of main characters from Spaced staring out at the camera.
Cover of The Politics of Tim: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. The background is a colour block of greenish-blue with a single red and white-striped deck chair placed under the title.
Video of a small print of Mole from Wind in the Willows. He'a pale grey with a pinkish snout and is dressed in an orange cardigan, purple plaid pants, an apron, green clogs while holding a small cleaning broom. At his feet is a small grey bucket and a blue rag. The camera pans left to a framed print of EH Shepherd's Mr Toad disguised as washer woman and right to my original pencil drawing of Moley.
Paul Kidby artwork of the Librarian from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The large orangutan is smiling widely, wearing goggles and seems to be driving some contraption or other.
A dragonfly perched perfectly centre on a car aerial. In the background is a purple weatherboard house. The dragonfly's wings seem wonderfully aligned with the old garage doors, the windows above (also reflected on the car roof) and two outside lights placed on either side of the garage doors.
Sculpt in black and pink-brown apoxie sculpt (air dry) clay. The figure has many legs, a wizened face and a dress and head-dress of sculpted forest detritus. The bag she carries on her back is filled with rust-orange flowers and foilage.
Cover of Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Simple artwork with stark black and red lettering with one image of two figures smashing a machine.
Old iron galley press loaded with a chase and random type/stamps.
Cover pic of When the Mountain Wakes. Hero image is the hulking white mountain with a serene, simple face, set in a frame of colourful flowers and foliage.
Large type print using different wooden letterpress fonts using upper and lower case - printed in red and black, and print quality is uneven. Red words: the plea DO slow Black words: hearts lets beautiful mindful kind sh!t
Small colourful sculpt of a mossy dragon walking with sticks while holding a teddy bear.
Small sculpt of a child-like mossy being in a leafy dress and shawl. They are wearing a pointed hat and carrying a basket laden with dried flowers on their back and holding a small staff in one hand while making a peace sign with the other.
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Cover of The Book of the Frog. The illustration has an rust coloured drog sitting on a lilypad with flowers and dragonflies.
Large bronze statue of Queen Victoria standing in front of the old sandstone Treasury building in Brisbane.
Cover of Ed Simon's Devil's Contract: The history of the Faustian bargain. Rust red cover with parchment scroll in the centre with author name, title and small devilish lino cut look illustration.
Small apoxie clay sculpt of three legged child making a peace sign - the sculpt is unfinished and sitting on a worktable covered in things like pliers, other sculpts, clay and resin stuff.
Bright blue sky. Ghost moon nestled between four power lines.
Hand holding four copies of ExLibris by Simon Groth. The books are spine outwards. Background is an old pianola with a few books and oddments displayed on the top and the ledge for music.
Messy desk with two clay figures standing in the middle. The figures look like they’re wearing black robes made of garden detritus. Each one is carrying a basket on their back. Each basket is filled with long dried flowers.
One of the many 1400’s Heironymous Bosch paintings of fiery hell and misery.
Rik Mayall as Rick in the TV series The Young Ones saying Hands up who like me? The second half of the picture is the rest of the housemates sitting around the kitchen table with their hands down near their ankles.