Californian painter Mark Ryden creates fantastic storybook artworks which are technically brilliant and disturbingly – yet beautifully – surrealistic. ‘I often find archetypes in old children’s books and toys, so these things make up a large part of my collection. I am attracted to things that evoke memories from childhood’. [more about Mark Ryden]
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YOU'RE SAYING (4)
Zac said | 10 October, 2006
yeah, his work is quite amazing.
jake said | 28 June, 2007
amazing work.
Kas said | 2 July, 2007
Wow, Mark’s work just keeps getting better and better – I have always been a fan of this guy 
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connetta said | 9 October, 2006
Truly loved this blog……..