#15
Looked at a few more artists:
Katharine Pyle
Works are largely made up of black outline illustrations to accompany her stories and poetry. She creates highly detailed pieces to reflect the stories she tells and centres much of her work around her love of animals but also works with traditional faerie figures.
Her work has an almost Beatrix Potter-ish feel to it with the way she sometimes depicts anthropomorphic animals.
Her book, “Tales of Folk and Fairies”: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25913/25913-h/25913-h.htm
For me it seems as if Pyle sees folklore in an almost playful manner from the way that she depicts it. Her works have a contrasting feeling of fun to them as opposed to mine which have an underlying morbid story to them. I felt it best to find an artist who had worked this way to show the direction that my work could have taken.
Past exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum: http://www.delart.org/exhibitions/katharinepyle_folkfaires
W. Heath Robinson and Jean De Bosschère
Both artists have depicted demonic images, however they show them in such a way that the evil is being pushed back and beaten down, repelled by the “good” forced that are shown, be that light, or music, etc.
I wanted to include these two as they are the first artists I’ve seen while doing this to depict demons using such bright colours. They are usually shown in dark and ‘disgusting’ colours that point more towards death, but in these works they are just as bright as the other figures.
