About

Helen Britton‘s Devils series has roots in her long time fascination with popular culture and its everyday remains. From her travels to the forests of Thüringen to her recent revisit of drawings she made in her teens, devils and sprites arise. Sometimes spooky, often comical and harmless, these characters are frequently spotted at the fairground, in cartoons on TV, and on the jewelry rolling out of the trinket automat at the supermarket. Britton rescues these creatures from the dank and mossy worlds they come from, capturing a bit of their essence before they slip back under the surface and …