Don’t want to take out the trash tonight? Maybe you’re swimming in homework? Perhaps that big bully is being a real drag? Well grab your coloured pencils and sigil drawing skills, and dial up some demons! But be careful, even if these spirits are more silly than scary, they are still demons.
My new book, A Children’s Book of Demons, debuted at TCAF in May 2019 and is published by Koyama Press. Read a review here by Publishers Weekly magazine. Unfortunately, it is currently sold out.
What makes a place special? Is it possible to discover the fantastical hidden in the familiar? This project addresses these questions by mixing illustration and photography to depict a variety of homeless nature spirits who, having lost their forests and streams, are forced to live in the forgotten corners of the city.
Combining my interests in urban landscapes, local mythology and the supernatural, these images suggest that the magical and the mundane can coexist in the most unlikely of places, if only we look closely enough.
Spirit City Toronto was published by Koyama Press in 2010, but is currently out of print.
