And adults fall in love with it too. Some of them are more than a century old and you would be amazed how special they become later in life. Everyone's childhood should be memorable...

And why not even make a long lasting collection of the most astounding artwork of famous illustrators. I absolutely adore collecting these illustrations and enjoy thoroughly producing art work from stories with beautiful fairy pictures. Images and tales have a lifelong imprint in our memory and make our learning better.

Art should always be there present in our lives. Fantasy art and Fairy Tales are deeply intertwined and illustrators have contributed in so many ways to our imagination. We can teach our loved ones and bring about their imagination in a magical world of make-believe.

Welcome to Fairies in Art

Fairies come from a far and many enchanted places but do people really know what they are...

In studying some of the world's most mythical creatures, we learn two things. We know they're a part of our imagination, art and literature...

And they can be found in our favorite story books. But not all of us know how time has brought about these fairy tales and how revealing the world of fairies can be. And it all takes place through our cultural exchange.

Fairies have had such an effect in art and literature that, nowadays we find many categories related to it like gothic fantasy art. But a fairy, faery, fey, fae or faerie as you can call them, aren't just those gentle fragile loving mischievous female figures that we picture in our minds.

There are particular kinds of fairies from different folklore such as the English pixies, Germanic elves, Arabic jinni or the Scandinavian trolls. These supernatural beings endowed with powers of magic and enchantment would often reside in there own kingdom.

As an example, mermaids would live in the sea and gnomes would live underground, but more commonly in an enchanted forest or in some far land. These so called ancestors of the ancient pagan gods and goddesses sometimes were even identified as beasts, souls of the dead or even fallen angels. But all of them entail from mythology and were passed on through story telling.

Above all, faeries are mystical beings related to a great variety of folklore and, when the term fairy came into use in Western Europe, it was in fact used to translate folkloric creatures of many other cultures into English into one word.

Story telling or folklore brought also richness to literature and has not ceased ever since. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream or J.R.R.Tolkien's Lord of The Ring are a couple of examples.

Through time, many great writers, scholars and researchers adapted fairy lore into popular fairy tales like Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and contributors such as Andrew Lang and James Stephens. The research in history is immense.

What makes these classic fairy tales even more special in our hearts are the innumerous paintings and art related to such a theme. They indeed made it more vivid and exciting for children to read, and what better memory than that picture in a book, or even on the wall, to cherish.