The Orgins of Faires and My love of Painting them

Sapphire – A lovely day in a field of goldenrod

A story of the origin of fairies appears in the 1906 Sir J. M. Barrie novel Peter and Wendy. Barrie wrote, “…when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” I think this is as good a story for the creation of fairies as any.

I believe fairy tales and fairies are one of the greatest wonders we can share with children.  I grew up in the woods of Maine and in my young childhood I often have tried to find these elusive creatures.  When I reached college I was wrapped up in the stories of Avalon and the fairy court described by Shakespeare in A Midsummer’s Night Dream,  I love making art based on these types of creatures. I love to make paintings of the things that you have seen as a child out of the  corner of your eye but have never seen. Fairies can be beautiful, and magical to wicked and ugly they are a great inspiration for art and use them often in the illustrations that I make.

These are the creatures that fuel my imagination and I hope my art based around these creatures inspires you to imagine a little bit more and see the world once again like a child.

The first of many of my paintings is Sapphire the human child turned into a fairy by the Fairy Queen.