Little Briar Rose, 2016. Graphite on Arches hotpress paper, 18’ x 24”.
When designing this piece, my intention was to call upon the children’s book design of the Art Nouveau era and the Eastern European aesthetic of the 1800s. I was thinking specifically of Alphonse Mucha, tinged with the character development quality of….
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Joy Ride, 28” x 28”, oil on canvas, 2011.
What happens when you imagine the witch, Baba Yaga, as a normal elderly person behaving in predictable ways? So what does she do with her down time between luring children to her hut and fattening them up to eat? I imagined that she might tear around the forest on her chicken-legged hut, house dress flapping, just for the fun of it.
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