Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

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

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.

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

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.