My artwork is influenced by the natural world and a good example of this is the banded boulder in the illustration of Hilda Saxon. It's inspired by a real boulder I once chanced upon while on holiday and I knew it'd appear in an illustration one day. The same can be said for Kayhi Shann as she confronts the surreal and malevolent Hand-of-Fate as it emerges from a mine shaft, (apologies here - the Hand is shown with only five fingers while in the novel it has six!) which in this case was the entrance to an old lime kiln.
They are just two examples of how a places inspire illustrations, which in turn give rise to short narratives. These short narratives eventually grew and merged into fully fledged novel that I named 'Rowan of Wildwood' and became the story that links all of these characters together.
Janni
with preparatory sketch
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Clovis
and Kolfinnia make their farewells
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Clovis
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Thunder
Sprite
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Now that the initial fifty-two Wildwood witches are completed I have plans for new galleries of witches representing the many other covens in Britain and a gallery of fairies - not the pretty kind that abound in folk lore and fantasy, but something more organic and profound. Work is already well underway on a series of much larger and ambitious prints that might appear as limited editions.
Beth
Fletcher of the Regal-Fox coven |
Frost
fairy
Fungus fairy
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