In a recent call for ‘featured artists’, one artist who responded stood out immediately. Sandra Hultsved, a self taught illustrator, with a unique and dark style that I found appealing. Her work has a gothic theme running throughout, which could be bleak, but isn’t, as the drawings are skillfully executed, and whilst dark, retain a certain whimsical quality. Some of her drawings were reminiscent to me of the original illustrations featured in the works by Edgar Allan Poe. One drawing in particular, called ‘The Bride’, bought to mind an opera by Donizetti called, ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ based on the book by Sir Walter Scott. Needless to say, her drawings have that kind of evocative feel, which is a unique gift, as it is not often for me, when viewing an illustration, that it engenders an immediate literacy association. I asked her to tell us a bit about herself.

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