It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit..

Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted t….

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible..

Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we'….

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going..

Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the….

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension..

It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce ….

Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies….

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form..

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are….

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story..

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see..

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to..

It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended….

I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on….

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and th….

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff….

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in..

Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, exis….

I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a ….