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Selkie
Project type
Illustration
Date
May 2026
Location
Cardiff
“The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.”
― Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
My take on a shapechanger from Irish mythology, the Selkie. Selkies look like humans on land, until they put on their Selkie coat and transform into a seal. This one is playing with her kin, mid transformation.
Watercolour and pencil.
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