Winner: Best Selling
Published Artist at the Fine Art Trade Guild Awards 2012
Kerry Darlington is a
Welsh artist, born 1974 in Rhyl, North Wales. She was heavily
inspired by magical fairy tale picture books and stories during her
childhood, and had a particular love for Arthur Rackham's intricate
pen and ink work. This influenced her to take a degree in
Illustration, with intentions of becoming a children's book
Illustrator. Following this she discovered ‘Art Nouveau’ and the
Pre-Raphaelite artists’. She found this work so hauntingly beautiful
that it absorbed her and it still has a profound effect on her own
art. She
recently took the decision to release her book Illustrations as
Unique Edition prints - the ‘Midnight Garden’ sold out within a
month and her ‘Mad Hatters Tea Party’ was so popular that it
sold-out rapidly before obtaining high values on the secondary
market. Her book illustration work is next to include ‘Peter Pan’ by
J.M. Barrie and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ by Enid Blyton. |