Save by a few people gifted with the sight, faeries, goblins, and other creatures of folklore can only be seen at rare times, under special conditions. One might catch a glimpse at dusk or dawn, as day and night change shifts and the light becomes uncertain. These are beings of in-between places and in-between times, creatures of liminal spaces, of the edges of things, the periphery. If one is very lucky, one might catch a glimpse out of the corner of one’s eye.

The same might be said of many of the rarer, shyer plants and animals in our world’s wild places. Some might only be found on a near-inaccessible mountainside, or in an endangered eco-system, or the deepest depths of the sea. Or perhaps they are simply wary of humans, skirting around us at the edges of our vision so as to escape our notice.

It is no wonder, then, that many a story draws alliances between the world of Faery and the wilds of nature. Or that many an artist has drawn inspiration from one or the other, or both at once.

This Periphery is one artist’s attempt to capture some of those possible corner-of-the-eye moments as if suspended briefly in time and made available for anyone to see. The images are drawn from the depths of land, sea, and sky; the stories of folklore (but most especially that of the fairy faith); and the labyrinthine shadows of the artist’s own imagination.