Stitch Magic
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRACE NUTH
I encountered intentional sewing as a concept when my Gothic-literature-loving mother gave me Barbara Michaels’s Georgetown trilogy, which explores the possibility...
Anijsmelk: A True Dutch Treat
Article taken from Issue #37 || Winter 2016
Print || Digital
Text and Photography by Paul Himmelein
Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer—think back to the days of...
Beata Beatrix
by Grace Nuth
Photography by Steve Parke
She sits, back slumped in a way that indicates she is oblivious of our gaze or the propriety...
Three Decades of Painting Powerful Women
Admirers of fantasy and science-fiction art will no doubt already be familiar with Julie Bell’s name. She’s had over five hundred works of art published...
In A Lover’s Eye
For the Outlander television series, costume designer Terry Dresbach created an ensemble for Geillis Duncan that included a brooch containing Bonnie Prince Charlie’s eye as...
The Enchanting Art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Fairyland is everywhere, so why not Australia? I still remember walking into a bookstore in San Francisco and finding a large clothbound volume called...
The Illustrated Conjurings of Daria Hlazatova
Daria Hlazatova is capable of magic. Paper is her cauldron, and pens are her wands. With these, she summons worlds wherein each person inhabits...
Power and Isolation of Circe: The Artistic Journey of John William...
Feature Image:
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891), by John William Waterhouse
Image Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsOnce upon a time there was a talented young painter...
Visions of Enchantment
A dragon-like sea monster rears above a ship, terrifying in its unleashed rage, yet beautiful—delicate scales, a sinuous grace to its form.
A maiden cautiously steps...
Fairies in Advertising
Fairies are notorious for tricking folks into making bad decisions. (See Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: transformations, potions, falling in love with jackasses.) So it’s natural...