Melissa Sue Stanley
LOCATION: US MEDIA: Watercolour, gouache, polymer clay, resin, acrylic, wool WEB: melissasuestanley.com
Melissa’s work finds small moments of magic and mystery hidden in gardens and mossy environments. Her storytelling project, The Woolbeasts, discovers the denizens of these worlds.
1 THE BERRY THIEVES
“These three Woolbeasts live inside the Treehouse. Specifically, inside the third kitchen cupboard to the left of the stove.”
2 GET CURIOUS
“It was a delight to create this traditional painting, and to have the creative freedom to illustrate the client’s value – Get Curious – in a fantasy style.”
3 TREEFOLK
“Woolbeasts began literally in wool, with yarn, 15 years ago. Now they’re sculpted, hand-cast in resin and painted.”
4 MAB, THE WANDERING FAE
“Mab’s few companions are of the root-vegetable variety. She’s long been queen of the pastures and twisted elms.”