was the word that sprang to mind,
as I viewed these images,
by Utah-based
illustrator Jenna Barton,
she creates
shadowy portraits of animals inspired by her dreams, travels, experiences, and
the aesthetic and emotions of the rural environments where she grew up. While
she does integrate watercolor into some of her illustrations, Barton’s work is
primarily digital,
the style she refers to as “magical-realism-animal-gothic”
came about around 2017, after she completed her BFA in Illustration and decided
to take some time to escape the constraints of school and to focus on art that
she cared about, 'I hark back a lot to my childhood in Idaho, as well as
looking to my current environment in Utah, to inform my work. I’d like to
capture the strange emotions that I always felt in rural and empty places, and
the daydreams I’ve had there. It’s those luminal spaces that I like best, and
I’m interested in the structures that bring the human world into nature—radio
towers, houses, power lines—especially in the absence of humans themselves',
Barton’s otherworldly works are available as prints via her webstore, they certainly work as for some reason I find them slightly unsettling, so I am not sure if I really would like one of them staring down at me from the wall.
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