The Fairy of Sharp Edges was my first step towards 'Fay'.

The Shorter Oxford dictionary says that the word means both fairy and dross. This seemed relevant to me. The traditional fairy is invisible, an unseen power, but has become historically reduced from a place of cautious respect to quaint irrelevance.

I grew up with the safe Edwardian fairy folk of Arthur Rackham only later in my teens discovering the otherworldly demented Victorian fairy painter Richard Dadd. This is a long way from the post-Tolkien, “World of Warcraft” universe of elves and dwarfs in today’s youth culture.

James Guppy, 2008

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James Guppy


Judith Reminiscing	Etiquette	The Fairy of Sharp Edges	The Familiar


Blush Roses	Spinosissima Altaira	Ascension	Dark Iris


Study #2 for Clouds of First Notions	Smoke Signals	Cloudfront	Clothed in Clouds


The Appraisal	Early Morning, Sunrise Boulevard	Man Raising Woman’s Skirt	Woman Fellating Man


Beached on Tom's Bay	The Business of Spoons	Nailing Down the Surf	Sky Tea


Walking the Dog	Embrace with Mufflers	Peeping Box # 9	Peeping Box #2