100th Episode!! A Fairy Master-Stroke!
The truth behind an enigmatic fairy painting & the Dadd artist
A double celebration - my paperback and hardback versions of my books The Heart of Pixieland: West-Country Faeries & their Haunts - are released on 14th July on Amazon!
Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master‑Stroke is one of the most intricate, unsettling, and mesmerising fairy paintings ever created — and few people speak about it with more insight and imaginative clarity than Lena Heide Brennand. Lena is a curator, researcher, and host at the Last Tuesday Society and the Viktor Wynd Museum.
In this episode, we explore the uncanny brilliance of Dadd’s work, the story of his life and legacy, and the strange magnetism of The Fairy Feller’s Master‑Stroke. Lena shares her love of Nordic and fairy folklore, the threads of myth and music that run through her creative practice, and the ways folklore becomes a living, breathing presence in her work.
· Elimination of a Picture & its Subject—called The Fellers’ Master Stroke -
Music in outro - The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke by Siberwytch
· Queen – The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke
