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

Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying fl….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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 had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies an….

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand..

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them….

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'….

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

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or t….

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