Mark Ryden

Jessica's Hope"Ryden's work combines a hyper-cute cartoon-like sensibility - much like the doe-eyed Margaret Keane creatures of the 1960s - with a beautifully-detailed fullness and a creepy combination of numerology, little girls, Catholic and Buddhist symbolism, and carnivalesque Americana. His work ranges from large highly-polished oil paintings to small black-and-white works on paper. Like modern illustrators Dame Darcy and Edward Gorey, Ryden is influenced by the fantastic art of Alice in Wonderland illustrator John Tenniel. He is also inspired by Vienna School artists such as Ernst Fuchs, and early Renaissance landscapes." (Wikipedia)homepage: http://www.markryden.com/index.html