Buy Limited Edition Contemporary Art Prints online from Metamorphica, the online art print store by British fine artist Paul Kingsley Squire.
Drawing inspiration from mythology and symbolism, these animal headed hybrids and dead beat fashionistas mix humans with paganistic totemism and skeletal decadence, resulting in a highly stylised ultra modern icon.
A framework is digitally hand drawn, in exquisite detail, and then meticulously coloured, to create the finished artwork.
"The initial idea for the Metamorphica & the Danse Macabre series came through this interest in mythology and symbolism. I had been thinking about if these anthropomorphic personifications existed, how would they look in today’s world ? I wanted the works to be very contemporary, rather than go for a sword wielding fantasy art style, so I dressed them in today’s fashion, gave some of them cool methods of transportation and completed the works with a sun / moon symbol background.
Read more about the creation process here...