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Fairy Artists

Jessica Galbreth * Beth Hansen-Buth * Gina Marie
Wendy Kathleen *Margaret Dean *Michele - lee Phelan
Nedda Shishegar *Victoria Griffin * Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly
Jane Starr Weils * Sherri Baldy * Abranda Icle Sisson
* Sarah Pauline * Renee Biertempfel * Michele Campbell
Suzanne Richards* Brigid Ashwood * Meredith Dillman
Carri Travis * Selina Fenech * Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Audrey Medley * Paulina Stuckey-Cassidy * David Gough
Kim Turner * Gary and Suzy Zahradka * C.J. Randall
Alain Viesca *
Amy Brown * Nene Thomas
Brian and Wendy Froud * Ruth Thompson * Sarah M Butcher

Jessica Galbreth
Painter of Myth, Magic and Enchantment
http://www.enchanted-art.com/

Beth Hansen-Buth — Mystical Fantasy Artist

Beth Hansen-Buth, painter of faery and myth, has emerged as one of today's premier visionary artists. Working out of her studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Beth's work is increasingly sought out by collectors of fantastic art from all over the world. Working in layers to achieve luminous skin tones and glowing light effects, she creates romantic magical works in oils inspired by faery lore and mythology. Beth was featured in the March 2006 issue of Fate Magazine as a painter to the Faery Court. Her work can be found in New Age gift stores across the country and at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival every August through September.

Inspirations: Time spent in nature, sitting by firelight, listening to fairy tales
Favorite Fairy Music: Enya & Loreena McKennit
Favorite Fairy Tale: Anything written by Patricia McKillip

You can learn more about this fairy artist and see her full range of work at her website:
http://www.wyrdhaven.com/

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Gina Marie
Artist, Poet, Dreamer of Magical Visions

Gina Marie believes that reality is a figment of our imagination, and she considers all art forms an intricate part of the life force of creation. One of today' rising stars of the fantasy art world Gina Marie works out of her home studio in an extremely rural area near lovely Star City, Indiana. Her art resides in collections world wide, and her popularity is increasing among today's serious fantasy collectors. Her work in watercolors is brave, forward, and bold. Bright and vivid hues infuse her paintings of colorful other worlds, filled with beings of mystery and magic. Her fantasy art was featured on the program Open Studio produced by WNIT television, and she has been published in numerous magazine and online publications.

Inspirations: Fairy Tales, Myth, Nature, the Mysterious, and a chaotically driven inner muse!
Favorite Fairy Music: Any thing by Blackmore's Night, Clannad, and Loreena McKennit
Favorite Fairy Tale: Old School - Red Riding Cape - The Brother's Grim
Modern - The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey


http://www.briarmoon.com/

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Wendy Kathleen
Watercolor Artist of Fae and Light

Wendy Kathleen McElfish has emerged as one of todays most beloved watercolor artist of fae and light. Nestled in the fast paced world of the O.C. California, Wendy Kathleen has carved out a fairytale existence for her elfin fairy baby Kaleb, husband and two puppy dogs. It is here in her enchanted home that she runs her studio, four websites and gleams inspiration from the fairy children and spirits that gather around her home and garden. Wendy Kathleen's work can be found in the book Fairy Motifs, along with numerous excessioures and gifts.

Muse: Cold raining days, candlelight and my garden.
Favorite Fairy Music: Tori Amos, Emilie Autumn and Loreena McKennit
Favorite Fairy Meal: Tea, biscuits and jam


www.wendykathleenart.com


www.protectionwings.com

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Margaret Dean - Fairy Photographs

Australian photographer Margaret Dean creates haunting and ethereal imagery by combining traditional film photography with the magic of Photoshop editing techniques. As one of the leaders in her field, she has worked hard to promote the genre of fairy photography as a serious art form, and over the last year has united many of the best fantasy photographers under a single banner, so that fairy photography is now emerging as a hot property in the fantasy arena. Her sensitive imagery reflects her deep concern for the environment, and is a call for a return to an Age of Enchantment where all things are possible, and humans have a sense of oneness with the Earth.

Inspirations: Reading mythology and historical literature
Favorite Fairy Music: Enya, LOTR soundtrack
Favorite Fairy Tale: East of the Sun, West of the Moon; Rumpelstiltskin

You can learn more about this fairy artist and see her full range of work at her website:
http://www.fairyphotographs.comFairy Photographs - Images of myth and imagination by Margaret Dean

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Michele - lee Phelan
Creator of magick through art and illustration

Michele-lee Phelan has been weaving magick through her fantasy and faery illustration since 2003. Inspired by music, myth, legend, the seasons, and the energies that abound and surround her, Michele-lee's ‘fairy tale’ style is bold and vibrant and reflects her passion and love of color. Her work is displayed on bookcovers and in galleries in both America and Australia, and is soaring in popularity on an international level as her faeries rekindle the power, mystery and magick of the faery realms. Michele-lee works with a wide range of media; her portfolio is full of stunning digital, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, and pen and ink artworks. These works can be found through selected websites, galleries, and pagan/new age stores, as well as rennaissance faires throughout Michigan.

Inspirations: The changing seasons, nature, music, fairy tales, dreams, and her stories and poetry.
Favorite Faery Music: Loreena McKennitt, Tribe, Denean, Leave's Eyes, Epica
Favorite Fairy Tale: Hansel and Gretel, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, and the Ugly Duckling.

You can learn more about this fairy artist and see her full range of work at her websites:

http://www.artoffaery.com

http://www.artoftheempath.com

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Nedda Shishegar
Faerie Artist and Fantasy Jewelry Designer

Nedda Shishegar was born on October 31, 1983, and currently lives in Southern California. Fantasy has been a subject of interest since childhood, so it is no mystery why she has chosen faeries, mermaids, and other fantasy creatures as a consistent theme in her artwork.
The medium she uses include watercolors, graphite pencils, inks, markers, pastels and acrylic paints. She is inspired by all of her surroundings, nature playing the biggest part.
She first began making jewelry in 2003 when she realized the lack of faerie-esque jewelry to wear. After designing a few pieces, there was an overwhelming response for them. Nature’s raw beauty is her jewelry design inspiration. She specializes in designs with leaves, and other natural items with the thought in mind: "What would a Faerie really wear?". Artist quote: “Why do I like to draw fantasy? Because there are no limits, and no right or wrong. It's based on your imagination, and no one can tell you that it doesn't exist.”

Inspirations: Nature!
Favorite Fairy Music: Morgan (http://www.MorgansMusic.net), Tori Amos, Bjork, and Emilie Autumn
Favorite Fairy Tale: Peter Pan, the Little Mermaid

www.faerieprints.com
Faerieprints.com the Fantasy Art of Nedda

www.enchantedleaves.com
Enchanted Leaves Fantasy Jewelry by Nedda

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Victoria Griffin - Fairy and Fantasy Artist

Victoria Griffin was born and raised among the beautiful forests and mountains of Upstate, South Carolina. Mainly a self-taught artist, she embarked upon her creative explorations at an early age. With fantasy and folklore fueling her life-long facination with the paranormal and metaphysical realm, the creatures of Faerie soon became her Muses. The main focus of her art is to offer others a glimpse into their world. She works primarily with ink and watercolors to create her images and her artwork has appeared in "Aquarius: A Sign of The Times", "The Circle of Stones Journal", "500 Fairy Motifs" and "Visions of Atlantis". Aside from her art, Victoria is also a poet, photographer and former disc-jockey. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, reading, listening to music and star gazing.

Inspirations: Music, nature, myths and fairytales.
Favorite Fairy Music: Stevie Nicks, Enigma, Loreena McKennitt, Tori Amos, Bel Canto.
Favorite Fairy Tale: all of them!

You can learn more about this fairy artist and see her full range of work at her website:
www.owllightstudios.com
Owl Light Studios The art of Victoria Griffin

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Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly

Always a bit of a misfit as a child, Jacqueline began painting as a way to express the fae she saw in the trees and hidden places of the world. Since her first professional entrance into the scene of fairy art, her work has appeared in numerous books and publications and can be found on a myriad of gifts such as magnets, stickers and keychains in shops such as Hot Topic, Claires, The Icing and others. She is a regular vendor at the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire and the Northern California Renaissance Faire. In addition to her own website, Toadstool Farm Art, and this one, she manages an artists co-operative wholesale group, The Fairy Court, and two other collective art websites, Mystic Minis, and My Fairy Baby. She now lives in a storybook cottage in Los Angeles with her husband, teenaged son, an assortment of wild and domestic animals, an ever changing clutch of fairy folk, and one brand new beautiful little fairy baby girl named Antonia. She remains a misfit.

Inspirations: Her horses, her own over active mind, and many times just the
art of language, a word will spark an idea.
Favorite Fairy Music: Soundtrack to Cavallia, Loreena McKennit, windchines
Favorite Fairy Tale: Lord of the Rings

www.toadstoolfarmart.com
www.myfairybaby.com
My Fairy Baby - A Magical collection for your wee one www.myfairybaby.com

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Jane Starr Weils

Inspired by ancient cultures and the romantic drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, Jane draws the viewer into her world of legend and magick with mesmerizing color and the thread of symbolism woven into every painting.Through multiple layers of watercolor, colored pencils, and sometimes gouche and ink, Jane explores the depth and richness of color evoking the enchanting dance of shadow and light. Jane's romance with the Medieval Era - it's art, peoples and legends, influence not only her painting but also her daily life. She is Celtic in blood and a member of two re-enactment groups - Norseland, and The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Born in New Hampshire, Jane lived most of her adult life in the Western United States, owning and operating art galleries in Jerome and Sedona Arizona, as well as in Silver City, New Mexico. Eventually she relocated to an idyllic setting in upstate New York. There Jane currently lives, with her three kitties and wonderful husband in a charming, hundred year old farm house by a beautiful river.

Inspirations: The magick of nature, candlelight, ancient myths and legends, color and light!
Favorite fairy music: Stevie Nicks, Woodland Music, Enya, Loreena Mckennitt, and so many more!
Favorite fairy tale: All the wonderful tales of old!

You can learn more about this fairy artist and see her full range of work at her website:
http://www.janestarrweils.com/

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Sherri Forrester Baldy
A creator of mythical fantasies in Art

Sherri Forrester Baldy is one of today's accomplished, world renowned,artists. Sherri's art is of whimsical worlds of fantasy; from fairies, mermaids,dragons, and trolls. As the artist of these worlds, her inspiration comes from her love of fairies, mermaids, and fantasies. Since she was a little girl, she often imagined dancing in her dreams with her fairies, and playing and swimming with mermaids. As a child, she pushed her baby buggy filled with beloved frogs and toads; and collected snails from under the garden leaves where she knew fairies would hide.

Today, Sherri's artworks are created from her beautiful studio in her Sunny California home. She hopes her works finds the child in your heart and takes you to a happy time and place, where her work comes from deep in the realm of fantasy and the pieces of dreams of a child. Sherri's works are offered in many forms including: Original Paintings, Prints, Note Cards, One of a Kind Dolls, Limited Edition Dolls, Artist's Porcelain Dolls, Designer Plush, and Fairy Gifts. Her works are sold in shops and galleries across the United States and around the
world.

You can find all her works in her galleries on-line at:
http://www.mythicalfantasies.com

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Michele Campbell
www.faerywoods.com/links.html

 

David Gough
http://www.davidgoughart.com/

 

Abranda Icle Sisson
http://www.muddvision.com

 

Sarah Pauline
http://www.fortryllelse.com

 

Renee Biertempfel
http://www.artbyrenee.com/

 

Suzanne Richards
http://www.mojo.com.au/

 

Brigit Ashwood
http://www.campdenwood.com/

 

Meredith Dillman
http://www.meredithdillman.com/

 

Carri Travis
http://www.carrigardaart.com

 

Selina Fenech
http://www.selinafenech.com

 

Jasmine Becket-Griffith
http://www.strangeling.com

 

Audrey Medley
http://www.toadstoolroad.com

 

Rebekah Lynn
http://rebekahlynn.deviantart.com

 

Paulina Stuckey-Cassidy
http://www.paulina.ws

 

Kim Turner
http://home.austarnet.com.au/moiandkim/Default.html

 

Gary and Suzy Zahradka
http://www.zahradka-art.com/

 

C.J. Randall
http://www.faerieportraits.com/paintings.html

 

Alain Viesca
http://www.alainviescaart.com/

 

Amy Brown
http://www.amybrownart.com/

 

Nene Thomas
http://www.nenethomas.com/index.shtml

 

Brian and Wendy Froud
http://www.worldoffroud.com/

 

Ruth Thompson
http://www.tarnishedimages.com/

 

Sarah M. Butcher
http://www.dreamflierstudios.com

 

Fairy Music

Woodland Music
http://www.woodlandmusic.net/

Kiva - Music For the Spirit
http://www.kivasong.com/

Gary Stadler
http://www.heartmagic.com/

Greene Lady Music
http://greeneladymusic.com/pages/11/index.htm

Fairy Tales and Lore

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies
Robert Kirk (1690)

The fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
W Y Evans-wentz (1911)

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
Lady Gregory (1920)

The Celtic Twilight
W B Yeats (1911)

The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
Katherine Briggs (1965)

Faeriecraft
Alicen & Neil Geddes Ward (2005)


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