25.july.07

i find beauty in the strange and unusual.  i'm intrigued and continually fascinated with artists who marry the past with the impossible, with fairytales and mythology, with daydreams and symbolism, with nature and imagination....

Vanessa Valencia  is so inspiring- her writings, ceramics, collages, drawings- everything she creates has a touch of magic and whimsy to it. i love the three-dimensional quality of her work and layers of texture.

drawing on her inspiration and love of birds, old books, anthropomorphism, and anything victorian, Julianna Swaney creates intricate, delicate drawings of beauty. her attention to detail makes her work so exquisite.

art and ghosts is the brilliant blog and etsy shop of London based, Louise who creates surreal and ethereal stories through digital collages, paintings, photo montages. her range of work and styles is just brilliant.