Sabrina the Ink Witch

Sabrina the Ink Witch: TWPT Talks to Sabrina © 2000-2006TWPT   Sabrina, better known as The Ink Witch has been crafting Old Style Pen & Ink for over 30 years. Her beautiful artwork has been published in many magazines all over the world. Her artwork also appears in several published books and most recently she has been included as the illustration artist for a Pagan Based Traditional Publishing House; Spiral Publishing, Inc. Sabrina is a Solitary Witch living and crafting in Pennsylvania, USA. Her pen and ink craftsmanship has been perfected over the last 30 years. Sabrina clings to the "Old style" of dipping her nibbed pen into an Ink Well as her ancestors did so long ago. The art community considers her a “Purist” and upholding this tradition just mirrors her beliefs and love of the craft. "It's a painstaking process - but the end result is always magickal and well worth the effort. My Pagan purchasing public would have their magickal art as well crafted as possible and I will produce nothing less for them!" Says Sabrina. "Do I not expect well made magickal oils and soaps from them? My artwork is my karma and I will produce and send out into the world only the best artwork Goddess grants me!" The emergence of her artwork upon the Pagan Community completely coincided with her own emergence from the Broom Closet. Who else to create your magickal artwork than an "Old Religion" and "Old style" Ink Witch? Click here to read the interview.

Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly

Toadstool Farm Art: TWPT Talks to Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly © 2000-2006TWPT  From an early age, Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly was seeing faces and shapes in the trees and mountains of the rural area in Colorado she where she was raised. Living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere left lots of time for this shy, misfit kid to get to know the patterns of nature, and rhythms of the wild. With the nearest town several miles away, her dearest friends became the ranch animals and the trees in which she spent hours hiding and dreaming. It was not long before sketching the faces and lives she saw in those secret spaces became a way of expressing that side of her nature without fear of ridicule from the small town and small minds of the conservative town closest to her home. Quite the opposite, she discovered, she was praised for it! Her first art award was a first place at the age of five in an art competition for artist under 12 years of age. She had painted a tooth fairy.  Now a few years later, her work has become increasingly respected and sought after. She has been published by Chrysalis Publishing in The Art of Fairy, with foreword by Brian Froud, and has a second book coming out this Fall, a beautiful instructional book on Watercolor Fairies. Her work has been licensed on everything from stickers and magnets to slate stones. She has become a sought after artist at two of the largest Renaissance Faires in the country, with more Festivals on the horizon, including Brian Froud’s Fairieworlds festival this Summer. Jacqueline currently lives in Los Angeles still, in the cottage named Toadstool Farm, where she breeds and raises rare breed horses such a Friesians and Gypsy Cobs… true fairytale horses, many of which have become the subjects of numerous of her paintings.   She remains a misfit. Click here to read the interview.

Jonathon Earl Bowser

Mythic Naturalism: TWPT Talks to Jonathon Earl Bowswer © 2000-2006TWPT Canadian artist Jonathon Earl Bowser was born in 1962. He began drawing at age 8, painting at age 18, and graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1984. His limited-edition prints and collector's plates are now represented by many galleries internationally, and his original paintings are in public and private collections across North America, Europe, and Asia - including the government collections of China and Taiwan. The artist's extensive and informative web-site receives over 1,000,000 visitors a year. Jonathon describes his unique figurative-landscape paintings as Mythic Naturalism - images looking for the mysterious poetry of which the natural world is made. Click here to read the interview.

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law

Shadowscapes: TWPT Talks to Stephanie Pui-Mun Law © 2000-2006TWPT Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is a freelance artist, whose work consists of fantasy, the otherworld, and the surreal. She has been illustrating since 1996. Stephanie graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998 with a double BA degree in Fine Arts and Computer Science. Much of her inspiration comes from mythlogy, legend, and folklore, and her art seeks to find a whimsical kernel to reality. She has also been greatly influenced by the art of the Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, and Surrealists, along with current popular fantasy artists. What she tries to convey with her art is not simply fantasy, but the fantastic, the sense of wonder, and that which is sacred. As far as technique goes, her usual media include pencil, pen & ink, intaglio printing, watercolor, acrylic, and digital (Photoshop). Her preferred medium at this time is watercolor. In addition to painting into the twilight hours, Stephanie dances Flamenco at any spare moment, plays piano, and burrows through her books like a true bookworm. Influences from her music and dance are also scattered through her art, for she finds inspiration for art and images in everything around her. Click here to read the interview.

Johanna Pieterman

Mystical Fantasy Art: TWPT Talks with Johanna Pieterman ©2000-2006TWPT I studied classical drawing techniques during the early ‘80s and began taking on portrait commissions, then went to Leiden, the Netherlands, to study graphic design for 2 years. I also took one year of sculpting, but I chose to remain in my 2-dimensional world with which I try to bring much joy into many people's homes. The techniques I mainly use are a mix of pastel and colour pencils, negro pencils and, occasionally, metallic ink, gold leafing and watercolours to accentuate certain aspects of a drawing. I also create fine ink drawings in the pointillist fashion. But most of all I am inspired by Nature and all the wonderful creatures of Mother Earth. Her faeries, animals, flowers, and the vast Universe with its planets, its stars, and all the different realms where beauty lives. It is just a matter of opening the door to the other side and step into a realm that take us away from everyday life, full of troubles and cares. I live on the Orkney Islands in Scotland, together with my husband Chris, 10 cats and a frog. Click here to read the interview.

Hannah M.G. Shapero

Pyracantha Studios: TWPT talks to Hannah M.G. Shapero ©TWPT1999-2006 Greetings. I am Hannah Michael Gale Shapero, artist, illustrator, scholar, and the person in Pyracantha Studios. I was born in Boston, Mass. and grew up in the Boston area and in Rome, Italy. My father is a classical music composer, Harold Shapero. My mother, Esther Geller, is an artist. Their heritage of art, music, and high culture has been my joy all my life. I studied Classics--Greek and Latin--as an undergraduate at Brandeis University and as a graduate at Harvard. I was also active as an artist and writer during that time. In 1978 I left academia for an art career, and in 1981 became a professional artist. I have studied art at the Boston University art school but most of my training has been with private teachers, especially my mother.  My specialties in art are science fiction, fantasy, and architecture. I also do commercial illustration, usually for real estate and computer-related advertisements. I have done many science fiction book covers, magazine covers, interior illustrations, and countless private commissions. Click here to read the interview.

Abby Willowroot

Spiral Goddess Grove: TWPT Talks with Abby Willowroot ©TWPT-1999-2006 Abby Willowroot is an Archetypist, Goddess Artist, Priestess and a Mother. She is the founder and director of the Goddess 2000 Project, an International Arts Project, and the Spiral Goddess Grove, an online Goddess Temple. Her adult life has been dedicated to putting Goddess imagery and consciousness back into contemporary culture. Perhaps Abby's best known original contemporary Goddess image is the "Spiral Goddess" which she designed and created in 1978. As an archetypist and symbolist, the focus of Abby's work is on creating universal visual symbols and translating cultural concepts into an easily understood forms. Ms. Willowroot's art has always been characterized by strong spiritual,organic and multi-cultural aspects. Although self-taught, Abby is a fourth generation metalsmith. As a child and she spent many Sundays with her father, a noted painter, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts gazing at their extensive collections of Goddesses and ancient Pagan sculptures and artifacts. This had a deep and lasting influence both visually and psychologically and is the foundation of her aesthetic sense. Despite no formal training, the constant exposure to fine art and metalwork were deep and lasting influences on the artist. . Click here to read the interview.