To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.

Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself.

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.