A Dragon Devouring a Princess, Next to a Yew Tree

The Yew Tree has traditionally guarded graveyards against both evil spirits and grazing sheep. Here, that symbolism is used to invoke a place where the princess becomes an every-princess, already half skeleton soon she will join the already consumed. The dragon didn’t start out eating princesses, that strangeness of the experience and the idea that this now half mad monster is devouring without satiety lie behind the narrative in this drawing. So voracious is the appetite of this dragon that even their horns have become cutlery.

A Dragon Devouring a Princess, Next to a Yew Tree 

Ink on rag paper, 2023

52 x 52 cm

£295