If you’ve ever dipped into the original 1812/15 Grimms’ Kinder-und Hausmärchen, you’ll know they’re far from the sugar dusted tales we spoon feed to children today. Stripped of embellishment, awkwardly transcribed, and casually cruel, they offer a world where Rapunzel is impregnated, Snow White’s biological mother wants her dead, the devil’s wife bargains her way out of nightly beatings (with mixed success), and child murder, cannibalism, and domestic servitude hum along in the background like a sinister lullaby.

My work lingers in this uneasy terrain. It offers glimpses of fairy tales, sometimes tethered to familiar narratives, sometimes set adrift, catching almost recognisable figures suspended in the moment before the horror unfolds. They are odd, disquieting, and refuse the comfort of resolution.

Working primarily in pen and ink, I create both two-dimensional pieces and intricate three-dimensional paper constructions, including a series of dioramas that invite you to peer in, though perhaps not too closely.

As an illustrator, I am drawn to conjuring characters for the fairy tales of today: solitary figures wandering bleak, desolate landscapes, animal-headed curiosities, abandoned children standing quietly among long-eared creatures that hover somewhere between the endearing and the monstrous. These are stories without morals, fables without neat endings, just the raw strangeness of what it means to be lost and seen.

In person you can find me at Art Car Boot Fair www.artcarbootfair.com where I sell one off original drawings and limited edition print runs. Please see the art car boot fair website for further details or make contact at my studio via the contact page.