Emily Jane Foster

@emilyjaneart

Freelance artist from Surrey, UK. MSc Biology, QTS. Science, nature & folklore/myth. www.emilyjaneart.co.uk Commissions: emilyjaneartstudio@gmail.com Married to @drrelling.dev

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Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 11h

Day 14 of #RepostAGhost 👻📖"In life you committed to each other until you parted in death. Do you wish to renew your vows beyond the veil?" 👻 🖤 "Ready for round 2?" 👻 🖤 "Always and forever" #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #B&Wart #love

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of two ghosts getting remarried by another ghost under an arch entwined with roses. The ghost under the arch holding a book says "In life you committed to each other until you parted in death. Do you wish to renew your vows beyond the veil?"
The ghost on the left looks at the ghost on the right and says "Ready for round 2?" The ghost on the right replies "Always and forever". Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 1d

Day 13 of #RepostAGhost Pocket pet ghost terrariums 👻 #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #clay #terrarium

A photograph of a series of ooak sculpted ghosts in tiny glass dome terrariums with cork bases on a bookshelf. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

A close up photograph with three of the ghost terrariums on the bookshelf. One is in focus. It is handpainted white with black eyes and has a base that looks rocky and mossy underneath. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 2d

Day 12 of #RepostAGhost A proud lil ghost with a gold star for you 👻⭐ #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #star #ACEO

A photograph of an ACEO sized illustration of a little ghost smiling holding a gold star. A Staedtler 0.05mm pigment liner and a Staedtler metallic pen are visible next to the picture on a wooden table. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 3d

Day 11 of #RepostAGhost 👻🪵🦊🐿️🐦🐇 Woodland ghost #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #B&Wart

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a smiling ghost sat on a tree stump in a wood. There are silver birch trees in the background. A bird is perched on the ghosts palm and another swoops down towards it. A rabbit stands and rests its paws on the stump. A squirrel sits above watching with a nut. In the foreground, a wolf watches the scene from behind a tree. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 4d

Loaf 🍞

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 4d

Day 10 of #RepostAGhost 👻🪽👼 Guardian #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #B&Wart

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a child reaching up to a ghost to get help safely crossing at a Zebra crossing. The light from the Zebra crossing behind the ghost and a bird flying behind its back gives the impression it is an angel. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 5d

Croissant 🥐

A calico cat sleeping in a curved arc with her belly up on a green carpet.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 5d

Day 9 of #RepostAGhost A happy lil ghost sat on a Jack-o'-lantern drinking pumpkin spiced latte. 🍂👻🎃 #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #ACEO

A photograph of an ACEO sized black and white ink illustration on a bookshelf. The illustration shows a little ghost sat on a Jack-o'-lantern holding a coffee cup and smiling. A breeze is swirling leaves around the Autumn scene. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 6d

Day 8 of #RepostAGhost 📺 🛋️ 👻 "I can't watch! It's too gory!" 👻 "I guess you're still a sensitive soul...there, there" #ghost #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #B&WArt

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration. Two ghosts are behind a couch. On the other side of the couch the TV is on and displays the shower scene from 'Psycho'. One ghost is curled up with its hands over its eyes and saying "I can't watch! It's too gory!" The other is patting its shoulder and comforting it saying "I guess you're still a sensitive soul...there, there". Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 7d

Day 7 of #RepostAGhost 👻 'Simon wasn't one to shirk He'd bury himself with his work. Studying parasites, his end was grim As his work decided to bury in him.' Excerpt from: www.amazon.co.uk/Hindsight-be... #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #poem #BookSky #parasite

A photograph of an illustrated page with a poem from 'Hindsight: A gift from beyond the Veil' by Emily Jane Foster. The title reads 'Bury'. The illustration is centred in an oval shape. A ghost sits on a wheelie chair at a desk staring into a microscope. A poster on the wall says 'Welcome to the parasitology department' and has several boxes with pictures of parasites. The poem reads 'Simon wasn't one to shirk/ He'd bury himself with his work./ Studying parasites, his end was grim/ As his work decided to bury in him.'

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 8d

A Happy Birthday card featuring my daughter's favourite isopod: the rubber ducky! emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com/listing/4519... #isopod #card #UK #smallbusiness #BugSky #invertebrate 🪲🐡

A square card featuring an illustration of a rubber ducky isopod wearing a red and white striped party hat with a little pink heart above its head. Text on the front reads Happy Birthday. Signed by Emily Jane Foster. The card is on a bookshelf.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 8d

Day 6 of #RepostAGhost 🔋👻💡 A series of ghosts #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #B&Wart

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of four ghosts zipping around a diagram of a series circuit. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 9d

Day 5 of #RepostAGhost 👻✒️ Ink well #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #B&Wart #ink

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a ghost holding a dip pen above a glass ink well filled with black ink. A scroll encircles the ghost with the words 'ink well' written on it. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 10d

Day 4 of #RepostAGhost. 👻 "The Black Ghost Knife Fish (Apteronotus albifrons) is said to be a vessel for the ghosts of the recently departed in South American folklore". #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #B&Wart #ghost #folklore ✒️

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a ghost pointing at a black ghost knife fish. A baited lure is just visible in the water. The ghost has a speech bubble that reads "The Black Ghost Knife Fish (Apteronotus albifrons) is said to be a vessel for the ghosts of the recently departed in South American folklore". Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 11d

Day 3 of #RepostAGhost A lil ghost entwined in bindweed. ✒️👻🌿 #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ghost #ink #B&Wart

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a ghost entwined in bindweed which surrounds it like knotwork. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 12d

For comparison, the Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja)

A photograph from the Complete British Insects by Michael Chinery of a Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar. It is black, fluffy with reddish orange tufts down its sides and some white spots

Information from the book about the Garden Tiger Moth Arctia caja. Summary: 60mm, often called the woolly bear because they're fuzzy. Head us black. Also travel at high speed.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 12d

Reference:

A photograph from a book showing a black caterpillar. It's super fluffy.

Identifying features of the White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda moth. In summary, 40mm, fast moving, tufts of black with a red or orange stripe on its back.

A photo of a book: Collins Complete British insects by Michael Chinery

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 12d

QRP with your most popular piece on BSky! I remember Gandalf the Greylag blowing up! 🪿✒️ Original post: bsky.app/profile/emil...

A photograph of a black and white illustration of a goose with Gandalf's hat, pipe and beard with a pen sat on top of the illustration.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 12d

Day 2 of #RepostAGhost The original prompt for this piece was 'ornate'. I inked the bookmark with the ghost looking up at empty ornate frames then added some of my previous years AuGHOST illustrations on the PC after scanning it. It was great fun to do! 👻✒️ #AuGHOST #AuGHOST2026 #ink #B&Wart #ghost

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a ghost looking up and contemplating a wall filled with ornately framed ghost art. The wallpaper has vertical stripes. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· 12d

For #AuGHOST this year, I'm going to #RepostAGhost and revisit some of my old ghosts I've not posted here on BlueSky! Please feel free to join in 👻🖤 #AuGHOST2026 #Ghost #B&Wart #ink #illustration

A bookmark sized black and white ink illustration of a ghost emerging from a mug holding a coffee bean. The mug has ghost roast written on it. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jul 8

Because what goes around comes around, if you see this (and would like to join in), share a circle, a disk or something round.

A black, white and silver ink and watercolor illustration of a Selkie transforming into a seal infront of a full moon. The body of the seal follows the shape of the moon and a woman's hand pulls a seal head towards her head like a hood.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jul 7

Nom nom nom 🪲 Rose chafer beetles (Cetonia aurata) excitedly chowing down on a slice of ripe banana! #bugsky #invertebrates #beetle

Two shiny green Rose Chafer beetles eating some chopped banana.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jul 3

Bug feet train, quote with some bug feets! Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata) beetle feets 🪲

A close up of some shiny metallic green Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata) feets.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jul 2

One of my Selkie wooden pin badges went off in the post today! ✉️ In folklore, selkies were seals that could remove their seal skin and walk on land in human form. emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com #folklore #selkie #art #smallbusiness

A wooden Selkie pin badge with Kraft backing board resting on a book about folklore with The Seas Edge at the top. Readers Digest Association (Great Britain). (1973). Folklore, myths and legends of Britain. London: Readers Digest Association.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jun 27

A lil rubber ducky isopod birthday card order went out in the post yesterday! I hope they have a safe journey ✉️ emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com #bugsky #invertebrate #isopod #card #art 🐡🪲

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jun 25

🦀 See a crab, post a crab 🦀

A card on a bookshelf of a blushing crab with its claws outstretched. The crab is primarily white, orange and black, with a little bit of pink in its blushing cheeks and a tiny pink heart above its head.The text reads I love you more than this even when I'm crabby. Signed by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jun 22

It's really hot right now! Take care and remember to stay hydrated! 🌡️💧👻 #B&Wart #art #ghost

A black and white ink illustration of a bottle terrarium with a scroll wrapped around the outside. The scroll reads 'remember to water your skeleton'. Inside, a little ghost waters a Fittonia albivenis 'skeleton' plant. Art by Emily Jane Foster.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jun 9

I'm super excited to share my new Rubber Ducky Isopod (Cubaris sp.) Happy Birthday card design! 🖋️🖌️🪲🐡 emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com/listing/4519... #SmallBusiness #Isopod #sciart #art #card #crustacean #birthday

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· Jun 8

Welcome back, #Spyro! Here's a very well played with Spyro cut out I made for my daughter in 2023 with Prismacolor pencil and Staedtler triplus fineliners on card.

A full colour Spyro the dragon illustrated cut out sat on a glow in the dark star tacked to a wooden wardrobe door. There are some tiny creases on the tail and wing where my daughter has played with it.

Emily Jane Foster@emilyjaneart· May 28

Here's the werewolf illustration I contributed for @drrelling.dev's #ttrpg 'zine 'The Horror at Millstone Falls'! 🐺🌕 Check it out if you're looking for an indie horror one-shot campaign! It's a great 'zine for a fantastic cause. #werewolf #rpg #indie #illustration #B&Wart #horror