If you have ever read the very first edition of Grimms fairy tales (1812/15) you will have noted their distinct lack of embellishment, the clumsiness in their multiple transcriptions and the flippancy of tragic, grotesque and brutal endings. Repunzel is impregnated, Snow White’s real mother is the one trying to kill her, the devil’s wife outwits her husband in exchange for nightly beatings and cannibalism, child murder and domestic slavery are rife.
My work depicts snapshots of fairy tales without a story and hints at almost recognisable characters frozen in suspense of a potential horror. They are uncomfortable and odd. My work is primarily created in pen and ink on both two- and three-dimensional paper structures including a series of dioramas. In addition to these I have more recently been working with the randomised processing of AI to produce an organic root system of strange, curious and lonely characters in bleak and desolate landscapes. Isolated and abandoned children stand quietly amidst long eared creatures that lurk somewhere between charming and terrifying.
In person you can often find me at Art Car Boot Fair www.artcarbootfair.com where I sell one off original drawings and limited edition print runs. Please see the art car boot fair website for further details or make contact at my studio via the contact page.
