I suppose, in retrospect, that the time just wasn't right for the faeries. Fortunately that's changed now. Even the fashion industry has jumped on the faery bandwagon. I'm not entirely sure why the time for faeries has come right now. Or perhaps it's simply the next trend after angels.
Faeries are more intimate, less daunting.
Mythologists and psychologists like Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and Clarissa Pinkola Estes have done much good work to popularize the notion that the symbols of myth and folklore have much to offer to modern life. Traditional cultures have always recognized and honored the animate spirits of the earth, but in western culture we've rather left that behind, to our spiritual cost, and ecological peril. Joseph Campbell has said that artists are the 'shamans and myth-makers' of our modern world, charging us with the sacred task of keeping myth alive. I hope my pictures will do their part in helping to keep myth, and the faeries, alive for the next generations. There's an old story about a household faery that was so loud, unruly and generally annoying that the family of the house, unable to banish the creature, decided to move.