Colour tattoo in a circular frame re-creating Van Gogh's Starry Night, with swirling blue sky, a crescent moon and a village with a church spire, on skin.

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Starry Night swirl sky in a circle

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A circular colour tattoo reproduces Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night, showing a swirling blue sky with yellow stars, a pale crescent moon at upper right, and a dark cypress tree at left. A village with a church spire sits along the bottom edge beneath rolling hills. The thick, textured linework follows the painting's brushstrokes, with blues, yellows and dark greens blended within a black outline on a plain skin background.

Moon Star Sky Swirl Hill Circle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the kettle's only just gone off, and I'll tell you about the night the 9.40 to Ashford stood in the cutting for six hours because of a cow. Not a real cow. A heifer had got through a gate near Hollin Bank and sat itself down across the points, and nobody could shift it, so there we were on platform two with the lamps buzzing and the last urn of tea gone cold.

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Old Dessie Pryce, who ran the signal box before they made it all screens, used to say every railwayman has one night he can never explain. His was the night the sky over the valley turned to water. He'd gone out to the end of the down platform with his flask because the wind had dropped, and the stars came out so thick and so restless they seemed to be stirred round with a spoon. A great slow turning, the blue of a kingfisher's back, with the moon hanging off to one side like a thumbnail paring.

Below the ridge a church spire stood up out of a huddle of roofs, and the cypress by the lamp hut bent in the wind like a black flame. Dessie swore the cypress was moving too, keeping time with the sky. He stood there until the heifer was led off, and the first train got through at half past five with its windows fogged and nobody aboard looking up.

He never went back to that spot after the shift changed. Said he didn't need to. The picture stayed with him, all the swirls and the stubborn stars, and when the new lads asked what he'd seen that night he just tapped his chest and said the sky was busy, boys, and left it at that.