Sam Guay

Location: US Web: www.samguay.com Em ail: samguayart@gmail.com media: Watercolour, acryla-gouache Stealing essence from dreams and travels, Sam’s strange encounters have built themselves into complex, mythical, watercolour worlds. “The most frequent question I’m asked is, ‘What’s the story behind this? I want to know more about this character’,” Sam says. “I’m always brewing these stories, and I’m beginning to write them out to accompany my illustrations.”

Literature, poems, folklore and even spiritual symbolism found in the cards of the Tarot have provided inspiration for the illustrator. “Visually I’m influenced by many artists that focus on pattern or line and maintain an odd or otherworldly essence,” she reveals: “Arthur Rackham, Sulamith Wulfing, Klimt, Mucha and Moebius to name a few.”