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INTO THE WOOD
“Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.” – Robert Holdstock ‘How heavily That old wood sleeps in...
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ILLUSION’S FAR COASTS – THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF RUTH HAMBIDGE
A couple of years ago, I bought a book entitled The Coasts of Illusion, written by a certain Clark B. Firestone, published by Harper Brothers Publishers, New York & London, in 1924.[1] It is a...
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BLACK CATS, STILL LIFES & CLOUD MAKERS
The Astonishing Fantasy Art of Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Serendipity is a wonderful thing; on occasion one’s eye is snagged by a chance image, opening up a whole new world. It happened to me a year...
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TRANS-ATLANTIC NOCTURNE
“With The Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A. D.” by Rudyard Kipling Surprises are usually found in the most unlikely places (Otherwise, they would hardly be surprises, would they?) The other day I stumbled...
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DEAR GANDALF,
I’ve been meaning to write for some time and have finally resolved to do so following your recent escapade in Paraguay. (I do realize that it was several years ago, but I only just found out about it a...
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NOTHING CHILDISH ABOUT CHILDREN’S DRAWINGS
1922, London: Edmund Dulac, pen in hand, is not inking an illustration, but writing an introduction. Impossible to guess at the exact circumstances surrounding the encounter of Edmund Dulac and an...
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RUINS
A few months ago, a colleague and I were discussing topics – my colleague is an archaeology graduate, active in the art field, both old and new, therefore scientific and disciplined, two qualities...
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THE END OF BOOKS
But don’t be alarmed, it already happened in 1894. The other day, I stumbled across a most extraordinary article in the August 1894 issue of Scribner’s Magazine, entitled The End of Books, by a certain...
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THE ROAD MUCH TRAVELED
I had no idea. Like most people, I only thought I knew the Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the book, the musicals, the films, both old and recent… I had no idea that L. Frank Baum, the creator of Oz, had trod...
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JUST BECAUSE…
A legend is a fairy tale told to men when men were sane. – G. K. Chesterton When I was small, I owned a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, illustrated by the author. I recall an oddly tense...
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THE SPELL OF DISENCHANTMENT
I HAVE desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of...
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IF LOOKS COULD KILL
The Deadly Draconic Gaze: A closer look at Gorgons, Cockatrices & Basilisks “Man is a mis-shapen monster with his feet set for-ward and his face set back. He can make the future luxuriant and...
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JOURNEY INTO WILDERLAND
It seems like ages ago that I wrote a short text for the introduction of The Hobbit Chronicles: The Battle of the Five Armies, and then lost track of the finished version.[1] Having run short of time...
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT DRAGONS
The Dragons of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth “I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even...
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THE END OF THE WORLD: THE FAIRY TALE APPROACH
Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) is undeniably one of the foremost figures of the Golden Age of illustration. Fairy tale, myth and legend, the grand classics of children’s literature,...
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EVERYMAN IS AN ISLAND
G. K. Chesterton is one of the most underrated modern authors of fantastical fiction. So, imagine my delight when a copy of “THE VENTURE: An Annual of Art and Literature” from 1903 (edited by none...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CTHULHU
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its...
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WE ARE THE RAVEN-FED
Just what is it about the making of pictures? Endless pondering on the nature of image-making, of the desire and the need to make images, has left me no closer to that mirage despite all the assiduous...
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BEST WISHES FOR 2017
A very short newsletter in lieu of a real one, to wish everyone a satisfying end to 2016 and the very best for 2017. I hope projects will come to fruition, and will be quickly forgotten in the prospect...
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PARIS, MAY 11, 2017
First solo gallery show in what seems like ages… ten years to be exact. May 11th to July 8th, at the Galerie Arludik in Paris. All new work. The show will open on the evening of the 11th. More...
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