Wayne Barlowe, What Remains
acrylic on Gessoboard
As much as Hell is a place of unrelenting horror and savagery it is, too, a place of sadness. What else could a being once of Heaven feel than sadness finding itself in such an environment? And what more poignant, precious reminder of its former existence could it possess after its Fall than one of its own charred feathers?
Wayne Barlowe, Abaddon of the Pit
Wayne Barlowe, Succubus
Paul Fryer, For Laplace (Anger), 2008, Mahogany staircase, waxwork figure, bird’s wings, glass eyes, steel plate, books and tools, 112 x 275 cms