A collection of little critters in the wild - in the grass of Turtle Disco's backyard, complete with travel billboard - that's where they want to go!
Every artist needs a hobby. Here is my page of my hobby art - what I do to relax, recharge, and muse.
The Dingle Caravan is a world of fantastical creatures, each tiny piece sculptured in air-drying clay, then drawn in ink, accented with acrylics, and then embedded in sheets of wax which make the creatures shimmer and shine. As an artist of the speculative and the fantastic, I explore animacy - how alive are these dingles? What are their desires, futures, wishes, their queer community? Welcome to the Dingle Caravan world!
How the works emerge: tiny creatures, often made while chatting with friends, waiting in public places or hanging out, abstracted into ink, with shadows and connecting pipelines drawn in acrylic paint, before being enrobbed in layers of wax.
close-up of one of the dingle creatures, like a mixture between a snail and an owl, above its blue shadow, embedded in layers of wax
close-up of another dinosaur-like dingle creatures, above its purplish shadow, looking up.
(I photographed this one before it got enrobed in wax - the wax looks lovely and mysterious in person, but hazy in photographs!) - a salamander-like creature.
A strange mollusk, eyes out.
Drawing: charcoal, graphite, ink and watercolor, 36×43 cm
air-drying clay - minute figurines and a single eyeball, see through the lens of my eye glasses.
This jar (previously pistacho icecream) goes on the road with me to cafe and such, so I can sculpt my little friends.