CAITLIN TURNER
Grimble the Gnome
Charcoal, digital colour
3886px x 2715px
2024
Grimble the evil gnome threateningly waves a porridge spoon. Part of a darkly comic picture book 'Maisie and the Special Helper'.
Goblin Market
Charcoal, digital colour
3750px x 6750px
2024
"White and golden Lizzie stood Like a lily in a flood" - Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market. Illustrating a passage from the darkly gothic poem 'Goblin Market'.
Pumpkin & Crow
Charcoal, digital colour
4090px x 3337px
2024
A curious crow peers down at a pumpkin —part of a two-sequence illustration.
Pumpkin & Crow II
Charcoal, digital colour
3307px x 2717px
2024
The pumpkin bursts from the soil, glaring down at the crow—part of a two-sequence illustration.
A Little Bit About The Artist
Caitlin Turner
Inspired by old fairy tale tomes, folklore, classic fantasy literature, and the natural world, I intend to evoke feelings of whimsy, macabre, and surreal, taking the viewer back to a childlike view of the world—scary, intense, yet magical.
Using a hybrid of traditional and digital materials, I create pieces full of detail in black or white or with a subdued, muted palette.
I've always loved monsters and the history and myth that surrounds them.
Trick or treat?
Treat please! :)
Do you like scary movies? And if so which ones?
I used to more than I do now, I prefer films with a dark/horror element like Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' and John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.
Whats the biggest influence on your work?
Classic fantasy/fairy tale illustrators such as Brian Froud, Arthur Rackham, Alan Lee etc, I could go on and on!