Respard

Respard is a collector of words. He is fascinated by how they are formed and the sounds they make. He travels the world searching for new languages and fascinating words; words with no translation to his own language. He gathers them in his own personal dictionary, testing and tasting them, combining them to create new sounds, before releasing them out into the world.

Size: A5 (21.0 x 14.8cm)

The Pareidolian Pixies are created using the phenomenon pareidolia, or seeing faces in objects. Using random splatters of paint, no two pixies are the same, and I can never predict the faces that will appear once the paint has dried. Other than choosing the colours, I have very little control over how the pixies will look, and sometimes they take a long time to reveal themselves and their stories to me.

The pixies are painted on 100% recycled cotton paper, which adds a wonderful texture and shows off the granulation and separation of the paints I use. I almost exclusively use handmade watercolours from a few small paint makers around the world to achieve high quality, heavily pigmented paintings.

Although I have sealed every original painting with fixative, please try to avoid touching them, as the natural oils from your skin may affect the paint. All of the paints I use have a high light-fastness rating, but are best kept out of long-term, direct sunlight.