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Rhys Willis

Artist and Illustrator

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Artist based in Essex, UK, with a deep love of fantasy and literature. Concept illustrator for Wanderers Weird.

Sugar-High Fairy and His Accomplice 🧚‍♂️🐇
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Everybody goes stir crazy from time to time, especially during the lockdown! This piece of artwork came to me during a writing exercise intended to be towards my artist statement. In the space of five minutes I discovered my head is full of fairies and rabbits and that the two go a bit mad when they overdose on sugary treats!
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One of my final pieces for my "exhibition" for my final year of my fine art degree, hosted in my garden. I think the fairies went quite well being displayed in natural surroundings 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️
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Emergence of the Dryad . Dryads usually stay withi

Emergence of the Dryad
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Dryads usually stay within their trees, but nature has been healing whilst we've all been shut away, and I think it would have been the perfect time for a Dryad to venture out from their trees and explore more of the world. A fairy visitor keeps his distance on the other side of a hedge!
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One of my final pieces for my "exhibition" for my final year of my fine art degree, hosted in my garden. I think the fantasy creatures went quite well being displayed in natural surroundings 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️
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Fairytale Birthday Party In Isolation 🧚‍♂️
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Having a birthday during isolation was very odd! I haven't really got much in the way of nature to be walking through locally other than a field and some thickets of trees etc where I ventured to several times towards the end of my degree. I took photos, one of them was a tree stump and I thought it could make a whimsical variant to a traditional birthday cake. As for the hunky fairy, I just enjoy liking what I'm spending time on! 🤣
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One of my final pieces for my "exhibition" for my final year of my fine art degree, hosted in my garden. I think the fairies went quite well being displayed in natural surroundings 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️
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My "exhibition" for my final year of my fine art d

My "exhibition" for my final year of my fine art degree, hosted in my garden. I think the fairies went quite well being displayed in natural surroundings 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️
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It also allowed me to produce work digitally, which I've been finding easier to manage than traditional lately (no setting up, no clearing up, no waiting for paint to dry, and can be done anywhere!). The artworks were then put onto blank canvases I had set up in my garden. My first patrons were my rabbits and my Persian cat Baileys! 🐈🐇🐇
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How has this pandemic of the coronavirus been affecting all of you in your art practice?
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The Bluebell Fairy and the Curious Rabbit . . . .

The Bluebell Fairy and the Curious Rabbit
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Loving all things mythology, as always. This is my

Loving all things mythology, as always. This is my interpretation of what the characters could look like from the story of Legend of the White Snake 🐍
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An all male interpretation of the story of Tom Moo

An all male interpretation of the story of Tom Moore and the Seal Woman from the anthology of mermaid tales in the #PenguinBookofMermaids 🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️ I keep coming back to selkies! 😍
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Lillymon posing on her flower wreath! I'm on such

Lillymon posing on her flower wreath! I'm on such a Digimon bender 😍
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Angel Digimon for the Christmas season! Totally un

Angel Digimon for the Christmas season! Totally unrelated to any uni work, I just wanted to do something I enjoy :)
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🌲🎅🏻
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Having read and currently watching the tv interpre

Having read and currently watching the tv interpretation of His Dark Materials I got to thinking of what my dæmon would be... and I reckon a seal! I love my selkies 🧜‍♂️
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Lyra and Pan on the rooftops in watercolour. So ha

Lyra and Pan on the rooftops in watercolour. So happy that His Dark Materials is being done as a tv series! Hopefully it'll do the books justice 😊
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Kai from EXO and Super M 😍 drawn with Autodesk

Kai from EXO and Super M 😍 drawn with Autodesk Sketchbook app 🖌✏🎨 @zkdlin @weareone.exo
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