Marc Potts – Biographical Details

Marc Potts is a pagan artist and author, drawing inspiration for his art from nature, ritual visualisation and dreams. Marc's visionary art received wide acclaim through the exposure of his work on book and magazine covers, (most notably as a cover artist for various pagan publications such as Pentacle, The Cauldron, Pagan Dawn, The Hedgewytch and the Australian publication,'Pagan Times'.). An occasional author (when time permits), Marc's first book; 'The Mythology of the Mermaid and her Kin' came out in 2000 and is available from Amazon or directly from Capall Bann sales on 01823 401528(UK), or at www.capallbann.co.uk

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Also, check out my section of Duirwaigh Gallery's 'Meet the Artists' for official promtional material (Adobe pdf reader required)

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" I was born in London in 1963 and I am a self-taught artist. After years of working in the computer industry, I left a fairly lucrative line of work to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator/artist. Five years on, having built a reputation in mainly pagan/new-age circles I am now branching out into more mainstream fantasy via my agent, Duirwaigh Gallery and my own efforts of course!

A lot of my art is based around my spirituality as well as the landscape I see both around me and within me. My subjects are the nature-spirits and elementals, although sometimes my paintings are representations of goddesses and gods, or what I would term 'romantic fantasy'. As for my style, I think it would be obvious to most that I am strongly influenced by the likes of Brian Froud, Arthur Rackham, Alan Lee, and the Pre-Raphaelites, although the list of artists I admire could go on and on. For those that like to know such things, I work mainly in gouache or acrylics, but use watercolour pencils & pastels to obtain certain effects, and to experiment. I paint on line and wash board or primed hard-board.

For more insights into how and why I do what I do, see the interview I did with PaperSnarl (the e-zine of the fantasy art publishers Paper Tiger) I've reproduced the interview here from issue #19 of PaperSnarl.

I currently live in the beautiful and mystical landscape of Devon in the south-west of England with my daughter Carys Freya and my dog (a slightly mad Whippet)

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