Turlor and Larapurg

Comedians of the pixie world, Turlor and Larapurg have something to make even the most serious and cynical person laugh. With her dry, deadpan humour, Turlor sees resistance to laughter as a personal challenge. Her piercing eyes will lock onto you, telling her tales, until you crack. By contrast, Larapurg is loud and flamboyant, with his quick wit, bouncing out of him, one joke at a time. Together, they are an unstoppable force, never yet failing to have their audience crying with laughter.

Size: A4 (21.0 x 29.7cm)

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.