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AMY BROWN
Since beginning her career in 1992, Amy Brown has emerged as one of the most popular faery artists in the world, with two international best-selling books and thousands of licensed products sold internationally. With her childhood love of Brian Froud and Alan Lee's classic book, "Faeries," as an early inspiration, Amy brings a playful, mischievous and contemporary attitude to her depictions of faery that has been widely reflected in popular culture. (This is Amy's first appearance on the East Coast and a very rare opportunity to meet her and get her signature on one of her books or prints.). For more on Amy and to see examples of her art, click HERE.
BRIAN FROUD
For over 30 years, Brian Froud has been regarded as the pre-eminent faerie artist in the world and an authority on faeries and faerie lore. His international best-selling book, FAERIES with fantasy and Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee is considered a modern classic. His landmark work with Jim Henson as conceptual designer on feature films THE DARK CRYSTAL, LABYRINTH and other Henson projects set new standards for design, puppeteering and animatronics in film and are considered landmarks in the evolution of modern day special effects and attract an international cult following. With over 8 million books sold to date, Brian's international best sellers include LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK, GOOD FAERIES / BAD FAERIES and THE FAERIES' ORACLE and LADY COTTINGTON'S FAIRY ALBUM. Other works with text by Ari Berk include GOBLINS!, RUNES OF ELFLAND, LADY COTTINGTON PRESSED FAIRY LETTERS and BRIAN FROUD'S WORLD OF FAERIE. Brian's work has been licensed by numerous licensing companies internationally. His work inspires Faerieworlds and FaerieCon, festival events that attract over 25,000 guests annually. Brian is currently creating concept designs for a sequel to THE DARK CRYSTAL, produced by the Jim Henson Company and developing a film with the Walt Disney Company based on his book, GOBLINS!' His work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the world and his paintings reside in many private and public collections. Brian lives in Devon, England with his wife, internationally acclaimed doll maker Wendy Froud. The Official website of Brian & Wendy Froud is: www.worldoffroud.com
WENDY FROUD
Wendy Froud has been a doll maker since the age of five. As soon as she could bend a pipe cleaner and tape bits of fabric together she began to make the kind of dolls she couldn't buy. Dolls of centaurs and satyrs, unicorns and faeries, all to populated her childhood world. She continues to do so to this day. Wendy worked as sculptor and puppet builder for Jim Henson for many years, primarily on the films THE DARK CRYSTAL, LABYRINTH and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. She sculpted "Jen" and "Kira" for THE DARK CRYSTAL and fabricated "Yoda" for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Other work for Jim Henson included THE MUPPET SHOW and THE MUPPET MOVIE. In addition to her film projects, Wendy has also made puppets for use in television commercials. Wendy's dolls and figures are highly sought after and are in many prestigious collections around the world. She now devotes most of her time to making dolls and figures for exhibition and sale throughout the US and England as well as teaching doll making workshops internationally. Her work has been featured in three books created with fantasy author Terri Windling: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S FAERY TALE, THE WINTER CHILD and THE FAERIES OF SPRING COTTAGE. Reproductions of her dolls have been created by Sideshow Collectibles. Her first book, THE ART OF WENDY FROUD was published in 2006 by Imaginosis. Her latest book, THE HEART OF FAERIE ORACLE, was published by Abrams Books in March 2010.
CHARLES DE LINT
Charles de Lint is credited as having pioneered the contemporary fantasy genre. His ground-breaking 1984 urban fantasy novel, Moonheart, remains in print to this day, and enjoys the privilege of being Tor's best-selling trade paperback for their Orb line.With 65 books published to date (not including foreign editions and reprints), he has gained a reputation as a master in his field. Charles de Lint has been aptly described as a romantic, a believer in human potential. De Lint says he hopes his stories will encourage people to "pay attention to how many special things there are in the real world." He regards his greatest artistic achievement as "the moment when a reader tells me that something I've written has inspired them to go out and create something of their own. Or that the story has helped them through a difficult time or prompted them to help others.
CHARLES VESS
The renown mythic artwork of Charles Vess has been featured in gallery and museum exhibitions across the nation, including the first major exhibition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art. His award-winning work has also graced the pages of numerous comic books, with publishers such as Marvel, DC, Darkhorse and Epic. In 1991, Charles shared the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story with Neil Gaiman for their collaboration on Sandman #19 - the first and only time a comic book has held this honor. Over the last 15 years Charles has continued to produce evocative works that have earned him various awards and his work has graced numerous books. In 2007, Stardust, the bestselling book created by Charles Vess and Neil Gaiman was released worldwide as a feature fantasy film. Charles will be signing and available at the Faerie Magazine booth at FaerieCon 2010. For more visit GreenManPress.com
LINDA RAVENSCROFT
Linda Ravenscroft is an internationally acclaimed British fantasy watercolorist. Her delicately detailed and vibrant faeries can be found on jigsaw puzzles, T-shirts, cards, figurines and many other licensed products. In addition, she offers prints and original paintings to her customers through her on-line web gallery. Like so many of the artists featured here, Linda has been painting fantasy imagery since she was a child. She finds it as a way to escape the mundane and sometimes terrible "real world". Her books include, Enchanted: The Faerie and Fantasy Art of Linda Ravenscroft, How to Draw and Paint Fairyland; Fairy Artist's Drawing Bible; and the Mystic Faerie Tarot as well as numerous calendars. For more, visit lindaravenscroft.com
MELISSA MARR
Melissa Marr grew up believing in faeries, ghosts, and various other creatures. After teaching college literature for a decade, she applied her fascination with folklore to writing the New York Times and internationally bestselling Wicked Lovely series (a film of which is in development by Universal Pictures). She has also written a three-volume manga series (Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales), a number of short stories, and her upcoming adult novel, Graveminder. All of her texts are rooted in her lifelong obsession with folklore and fantastic creatures. You can find her online at www.melissa-marr.com.http://www.melissa-marr.com/
TIFFANY TRENT
Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Tiffany Trent started writing stories at age nine and now writes full-time. She has earned three Master's degrees at Virginia Tech and theUniversity of Montana and has worked as a senior editor for a wildlife conservation organization in Hong Kong, bred poison dart frogs and rare turtles at a science museum, and taught English at Virginia Tech (the most dangerous of all her jobs!). She is the author of the YA
dark fantasy HALLOWMERE series. The first book, "In the Serpent's Coils", was named a BookSense (IndieBound) Children's Pick in Autumn 2007 and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age in 2008. She was also the recipient of the 2008 SCBWI Work-in-Progress grant, and has won awards and fellowships for her nonfiction. Her short story "Blackwater Baby" in "Magic in the Mirrorstone" was given Honorable Mention for the Year's
Best Horror 2008. tiffanytrent.com
HELENA NELSON REED
Helena Nelson-Reed is an American artist specializing in fine art watercolor painting, pencil drawings, fine art illustration, private/commercial commissions, and portraits.
Helena's collections portray a visionary world focused on positive, feminine archetypal imagery. Each painting offers the viewer a portal into their imagination, tapping ancient wellsprings of knowledge and emotion. These collections portray a world filled with light
and shadow. To see examples of Helena's art, click HERE.
CAROLYN TURGEON
Born in Michigan, Carolyn Turgeon wrote her first novel at the age of eight. She is now the author of three (more) novels: "Rain Village," published in 2006, "Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story," which came out in 2009, and this year's "Mermaid," a retelling of the original little mermaid story by Hans Christian Andersen. Her next book, "The Next Full Moon," comes out in January 2012 and is about a 12-year-old girl who discovers her mother was a swan maiden. Carolyn also runs the mermaid blog, iamamermaid.com, and is editing the new Mermaids special edition magazine, set to debut in January from the publishers of Faerie Magazine. She's currently working on her next fairytale novel and a non-fiction book about mermaids and mermaid culture. She lives between Pennsylvania and New York.
RAVEN GRIMASSI
Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of over fourteen books on Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism. He has been devoted to the study and practice of witchcraft for over forty years. Raven is co-founder and co-director of the Fellowship of the Pentacle, a modern Mystery School tradition of pre-Christian European beliefs and practices. Grimassi's background includes training in old forms of European witchcraft as well as Brittic Wicca, the Pictish-Gaelic tradition, and Celtic Traditionalist Witchcraft. Raven was also a member of the Rosicrucian Order, and studied the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth under Lady Sara Cunningham. His early magical career began in the late 1960s and involved the study of works by Julius Evola, Franz Bardon, Gareth Knight, Kenneth Grant, Dion Fortune, William Gray, Austin Spare, William Butler, Israel Regardie, Eliphas Levi, and William Barrett.
STEPHANIE TAYLOR-GRIMASSI
Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi is a 3rd degree initiate of a Celtic Traditionalist system of Wicca, and is a 3rd degree initiate of Italian Witchcraft (the Arician Tradition). She is a legally ordained clergy of Witchcraft. Stephanie has studied, taught, and used the magical arts as tools of transformation throughout her lifetime. She is also a professional Tarot reader, astrologer, and a teacher of Old World Witchcraft through the Fellowship of the Pentacle.
Stephanie is the co-author and co-creator of the divination and teaching systems The Well Worn Path Oracle kit (2005) and The Hidden Path Oracle Kit, (2007). She currently lives in New England with her husband (author Raven Grimassi) and divides her time between operating Raven's Loft cyber store, teaching workshops, managing the House of Grimassi project, co-directing the Mystery School known as the Fellowship of the Pentacle, and developing the Ash, Birch & Willow training system of Old World witchcraft.
PAUL BORDA
Paul Borda is the artistic hand behind the magical products offered internationally by Dryad Design, Ltd. Most of his designs begin as wood carvings and are reproduced as statues or interpreted into jewelry, t-shirts and other items. The world of Faery is an integral part of his everyday life. Some of his closest friends are members of the unseen realms. He lives with the love of his life, a cadre of faeries and his beloved dog in the wild foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. For more visit dryaddesign.com.
ELLEN KUSHNER
Ellen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host and performer. Since 1996, she has been heard by audiences around the country as the host of PRI's award-winning national public radio series, "Sound & Spirit". She is the author of several acclaimed novels: "Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners", which begins her "Riverside" series, was hailed as the progenitor of the "Mannerpunk" school of urban fantasy; "Thomas the Rhymer", which won both the 1991 World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award and "The Fall of Kings" with Delia Sherman. Her most recent novel, "The Privilege of the Sword", a genre-crossing, gender-bending novel earned honors from New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, to finalist for the Nebula and Tiptree Awards, and won the Locus Award. Her work has been translated into many languages. As a performer, her solo spoken word works include "Esther: the Feast of Masks", and "The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer 'Nutcracker" for Chanukah (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, on Rykodisc CD), Latest projects are "Welcome to Bordertown", an anthology of new stories from Terri Windling's seminal shared-world series, which Ellen co-edited with Holly Black, and "The Witches of Lublin", a musical audio drama written with Elizabeth Schwartz & Yale Strom for public radio. Ellen Kushner is a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and she lives with author Delia Sherman in New York City.
DELIA SHERMAN
Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. Her first novel, "Through a Brazen Mirror", garnered a 1990 nomination for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer. Her second novel, the historical "The Porcelain Dove", was listed in The New York Times Notable Books, and won the Mythopoeic Award in 1994. Her short stories for younger readers have appeared in numerous anthologies. "CATNYP," a story of a magical New York Between, inspired her first novel for children, "Changeling". The sequel, "The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen" followed in 2009. The "Freedom Maze," a time-travel fantasy set in Louisiana, will be published in November. Delia has worked as a contributing editor for Tor Books and has co-edited the fantasy anthology "The Horns of Elfland" with Ellen Kushner and Donald G. Keller, as well as "The Essential Bordertown" with Terri Windling. She had co-edited two anthologies of Interstitial fiction: "Interficitons 1", with Theodora Goss, and "Interfictions 2", with Christopher Barzak. She continues to teach SF and Fantasy writing at Odyssey: the Fantasy Writing Workshop, the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and workshops at colleges and science fiction conventions all over America. Delia lives with author Ellen Kushner in New York City.
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE
Born in Bristol, UK, Annette Curtis Klause is a best-selling and award winning author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published four novels for young adults: "The Silver Kiss" 1990, "Alien Secrets," 1993, "Blood and Chocolate," 1997 and "Freaks: Alive on the Inside," 2006, Her short story, "Elf Blood" is included in the new Borderlands anthology, "Welcome to Bordertown." She lives in Maryland with her husband Mark and their cats.
CORY GODBEY
Cory Godbey has illustrated picture books, book covers, and other projects for clients such as HarperCollins, Random House, Marvel, and The Jim Henson Co. He has worked on animated shorts and commercials with clients including Prudential Insurance, Microsoft Zune, and the upcoming documentary film The Last Flight of Petr Ginz. Cory's work has been accepted into various annuals including The Society of Illustrators Annual as well as Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. His short graphic novel stories can be found in the award winning, Eisner nominated Flight graphic novel anthologies. Cory seeks to tell stories with his work. He also likes to draw monsters. To see more of his work and to read his blog visit: http://www.corygodbey.com/
BRIGID ASHWOOD
Brigid Ashwood's art could be described as Contemporary Figurative Mythic Surrealism. But the artist prefers to describe her work this way: " I paint steampunk bugs, clockwork dolls, fairytales & vinyl toys. I seek to reinterpret mythic and fairytale worlds and heroines' for a modern audience" A contemporary artist exploring classic themes through a Sci-Fi lens; Brigid's influences and technique are well rooted in traditional mediums such as oil paint and silverpoint. She also works in the luminous tones of the digital palette; merging the labored craft of portraiture with the flexibility of modern mediums. Brigid's work is known globally and has been featured in exhibits around the country as well in books and international magazines. Her originals are collected by notable authors, musicians, actors and CEOs. Brigid's images have been licensed for a variety of products sold worldwide. She resides in Maryland in a 246 year old house with her husband & daughter, and four aggravating yet lovable pets. In her spare time she writes for GeekMom.com and haunts Twitter under the handle Skwerlgrrl. More at www.brigidashwood.com
RENAE TAYLOR
Renae Taylor's work is about memory, imagination and retaining the sense of wonder in the world that she felt as a child. Her exquisite watercolor work and sculptures explore mythic and fantasy themes in with vivid detail. Renae received a competitive scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design and graduated cum laude with a BFA in illustration. She was staff artist for Kansas City Renaissance Festival before opening her own shop there in 2000 selling reproductions of her work. Since then her print business has expanded to include Fairs and Festivals throughout the US as well as distribution at various shops and galleries. For more, visit, renaetaylor.biz
PRISCILLA HERNANDEZ
Priscilla Hernandez is an awarded ethereal gothic singer and composer from Spain but also a fantasy illustrator. Her father and uncle are well known landscapes painters in the Canary Islands, Spain. She's been drawing since early age and absolutely self taught she started to make animation shorts at the eary age of 18 winning an award for a traditional cartoon short of 1 minute: the girl and the death, getting a grant to study animation though she switched to study Biology. She's been actively working on fantasy magazines, fanzines and comissions and have published in several fantasy compilation books. She works mostly in traditional media but also digitally. Her comic "YIDNETH" that gave name to her company was scripted and drawn in the late nineties but remain unpublished but still left a solid imprint in her music works. Her first album Ancient Shadows featured two booklets of illustrations, her forthcoming and second CD The Underliving has a little book of 40 drawings along with the music. Both her drawings and music are inspired in fantasy, in ghosts, and the worlds between dream and awareness. Eeerie and melancholic art. She's now nominee as best illustrator in Mallorca Fantastica cinema Fest (pending of resolution) More info at http://yidneth.com and http://theunderliving.com
JANE STARR WEILS
The art of Jane Starr Weils is inspired by ancient cultures, myth and magick. Her fascination with the romantic drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, and her love of the medieval era with it's art, history, peoples and legends influences not only her artwork but also crosses
into her every day life. Jane is involved with two reenactment groups - Norseland, and The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Her chosen art medium is a combination of watercolor and colored pencil. Color is also extremely important to Jane; she enjoys exploring it's richness, the way light creates and interacts with it, and how even the darkest shadow has unexpected depth. She lives in upstate New York in a charming 104 year old farm house with her three kitties and her husband. More at http://janestarrweils.com
LINDA BIGGS
For twelve years. Linda Biggs has shared her unique and magical art with the world and has emerged as an internationally acclaimed faerie artist. Linda's "Rainbow Faery Art" is immediately recognizable: vibrant colors illuminate a decidedly modern vision of the faery world: passionate, playful, edgy, often more than a bit sensual. This bold approach to her art reflects Linda's own spirit and her deep connection with her subjects. Her first book, "Her Rainbow World" is nearly out of print and a second volume is in development. Her artwork has been published in numerous books and magazines and is sold throughout the world, in galleries, art stores, gift shoppes and boutiques. For more information on Linda and her art, please visit: http://www.lindabiggs.com/
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