A Sorta Fairytale: The Art of Chelsea Greene Lewyta

Chelsea Greene Lewyta is an illustrator and artist who deals in the stuff of nightmare fairy tales and tragedies. Her delicate, often sexually charged watercolors portray women whose brutalization and victimization (in short, trauma) is manifested in the natural world (in little creatures, deer, branches, woods) and in surreal distortions of their personal anatomies. The forest as metaphor for fringe existence, twisted psyches, and the modern rendition of fairytale imagery is again a strong motif here, as in DeerlyDeparted’s work (see the previous post). Her work depicts what she describes as “a great schism between the beautiful and the macabre.”

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Tags: anatomical-themed, animals, deer, erotic, hunter/hunted, illustrations, modern fairy tales, surreal, trauma, woods