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>>Jeremy Enecio<<

{Taxidermia: a graphic world of dark Victoriana, memento mori and macabre taxidermy. Featuring vicious yet elegant designs with a nod to the past, Taxidermia is a thoroughly contemporary art jewellery and apparel collection created and constructed in London.}

My favorite items are the Black Chained Antler Necklace, Black Bleeding Antlers Necklace, Horses Cameo Black Crystal Necklace, Fly Crest Black Chain Necklace, Macabre Menagerie White Tank, and the Vanitas White Shirt.

Read Amelia’s blog post about this collection here.

To see more of Bethany Moore-Garrison’s work, check out her Website.

via Hi-Fructose

Elsa Mora is an amazing and endlessly creative paper-cutting artist. With just sharp knives and scissors, she crafts evocative, entangling scenes (perfect for framing in shadowboxes), vignettes, and storytelling images of incredible detail out of paper, resonant with fairytale whimsy and deep emotion.

Her work has a childlike quality, reminiscent of vintage children’s book illustrations, as well as its trademark unbelievable complexity, intricacy, and attention to detail on a miniature scale; elevating paper-cutting to a whole new level of artistry and expression. It has a darkness and rawness, a visceral quality, often depicting the theme of “the secret anatomy of a young girl” (the title of one of her pieces), showing an internal wilderness of twisting vines/blood vessels, red flowers, insects, and other symbols of nature’s marriage with the anatomy of the psyche in her work.

They bring to mind simultaneously alluring/foreboding fairy tales, personal pain, corrupted innocence, sensuality, the mystery and power of nature, and a sense of playfulness. They do remind me a bit of a paper-cutting analogue of Frida Kahlo‘s paintings, combined with a naturalist aesthetic. They are three-dimensional works of art, violent drops of red against a white background, all rendered in the most lovingly detailed and ingenious way in a fragile and ephemeral medium.

To find out more about Elsa, you can read her bio (with illustrations!) on her blog.

To quote Anagnorisis, Jeremy Hush‘s intricate, elaborate, wild yet delicate drawings, which convey an incredible sense of dark movement and dimension, are “heavy influenced by Arthur Rackham and other 19th-century illustrations….His spidery drawings are dark and mysterious, but, like Rackham’s drawings, evoke the fear, love, and awe one might have for nature and her power.” He often draws with ballpoint pens he finds in hotels around the world (Hush is prone to wanderlust), uses “traditional India ink and watercolor,” and “also experiments with a plethora of other media such as coffee, for example.”

Liza Corbett‘s beautiful watercolors and whispery, precise linework, which seem to have a kind of soft translucency, depicting maidens of yore and mythology, entangled with animals, nature, their own hair, are displaying alongside Jeremy Hush‘s breathtaking work at Loved to Death’s Articulated Gallery (’til the 29th of September).

Also be sure to check out her Etsy shop for original artwork and gorgeous art dolls!