The Mushroom Garden: The Art of Adam Oehlers
The Mushroom Garden really has to be seen to be believed. British artist Adam Oehlers both wrote and illustrated the mesmerizing tome over the course of five years, creating a surreal yet highly detailed,...
Temporal Beauties
Nature collage combines everything I’m most passionate about: the outdoors, working with organic materials, the ephemerality of those materials, and beautiful composition that’s pleasing to the eye and other senses.
I’ve always felt called to...
The Mushroom Fairy From the North American Journal of Fairyology
Photography: JOVANA RIKALO @jovanarikalo
Model: Phoebe @phoebymontari
Mushrooms: Ana Youkhana @ana_youkhana
Decor: Tandrbal @tandrbal
Readers of this journal are certainly familiar with the various flower fairies of Great Britain and Ireland, which have been written about extensively in...
Featured Artist: Kristin Kwan
We didn’t think that this issue would be complete without these stunningly surreal oil paintings by Nebraska artist Kristin Kwan—that gleaming unicorn, those sprays of delicate shrooms, and that gorgeous girl weeping pearly tears...
The Renaissance is Female
by Yinsey Wang and Hajnalka Berényi-Kiss of Heroines & Muses
Model: Yinsey Wang @tornandpolished
Make-up: Jennifer Brillante @brijance.makeupartist
Hair and make-up: Nina Willenpart @stylingsbynina, @shadesbynina
Retouching assistant: Julia Lomaka @julia_lomaka_retoucher
Photographer/Creative Direction/Post-production and retouching: Hajnalka Berényi-Kiss @heroinesandmuses
In Renaissance-era portrayals...
Between Heaven and Earth: Angels of the Renaissance
Portrayals of angels abound in popular culture. With compelling personalities and forceful wills, angels appear as heroes and villains in books and film and on television, interacting with humans as friends, antagonists, allies, even...
Wings and Light
So we think these captures of Italian model-artist Emanuele Zappariello by Polish artist Agnieszka Lorek could have been lifted from some cobweb-covered Renaissance-era masterpiece hidden away in an Italian castle somewhere. Don’t you? Who...
Featured Artist: Brooke Hummer
We felt that this issue could not possibly be complete without the work of Chicago artist Brooke Hummer, who pays homage to the glories of art history as well as the modern—and glam, and...
When Women Painted the Renaissance
They had names like Sofonisba and Lavinia and most of all Artemisia. They were brilliant and gifted and (sometimes)
ferocious—because they had to be, sure, and perhaps also because they wanted to be. They were...
A Shout-Out To Renaissance Animals
On these pages we feature all manner of iconic, dramatic, thunderous art—from gossamer-gowned goddesses to avenging Biblical heroines, high-minded (yet questionable) angels to the occasional rakish courtier, and more. But we’d also like to...