JW Summerisle

recycled A5 kraft in watercolour & acrylic

Daisy Transforming

an image on brown card, entirely in pencil. a large sketched daisy in the top right comes to occupy the middle section, inhabited by loosely drawn eyes, scribbled cheeks and full pouting lips. the figure ends just below the waist and is almost disembodied, having no arms and no clear torso structure. they are depicted in what could be construed as a medieval style tabard, or a ring of wildflower leaves.

Courtney Love & a Brace of Daisies

a chaotic image on brown card, applied in dry brush strokes leaving uneven textures and chalkiness. largely white on the right, the left is yellow and streaked black and red, which stretch into an outline of courtney love in a black dress with round white collar, holding daisies in one hand which are shown as a cloud of white with a thin burgundy outline.

Daisy Trooping

an image on brown card, showing a streaky blue background overlaid with a pale green body. the arms are bent and held above the head, where black paint flowers sit like a crown atop a minimal courtney love whos face consists of two single orange brush strokes for cheeks, a few spare single brush strokes of a bright yellow for hair, and black outlined eyes and lips, shadowed in pale blue and red respectively. her body ends below the waist and is largely uncoloured. somewhat abstract brushstrokes suggest the wearing of a pale green medieval style tabard.

Daisy Inhabits a Boy

an image on brown card, almost entirely covered in "muddy" layers of paint, which are browining darkly around a figure angling their face up, looking away from the viewer. the boy is situated on a smudgy brown backrground, painted almost pure white on the left. the whiteness streaks over their head, across their facial features and down along their angular shoulders. the apparent female and male aspects of the figure are equally emphasised. the figure wears a green, almost abstract medieval-style tabard, which is picked out in broad blue strokes that merge with and muddy the brown right-hand background.

Daisy in her Glamour as Courtney Love

an image on brown card, edged in pieces of paint-marked masking tape. the image is half a colour portrait of courtney love, with white and pale yellow hair and red spots of wet paint highlighting the facial features. half of the left-side eye is absent. the image ends just below the waist, an area mainly in abstract green, with a single line of blue traversing the left-side to highlight a hip and crooked arm. orange brush strokes protude from her head like fire, sunlight or petals.

A Brace of Daisies

a minimal image on brown card, entirely in pencil, showing small, short lines making up the eyelashed face and full lips of courtney love who sits crookedly, legs exposed and clutching a handful of daises shown as stalks and circles in a balled hand.

these images are based on traditional folktales of faerie glamour, of spirit magick that allows flower faeries to alter and inhabit human perceptions of body, beauty, gender, while maintaining integrity as their original selves. in this case, a daisy looms into the human world as a ghost, as a girl, as courtney love or a boy, grasping or garlanded with common garden flowers

JW Summerisle is an artist & writer from the English East Midlands. Their poetry & art can be found in SAND & the Lily Poetry Review among others. Their work be bought at jwsummerisle.etsy.com & they can often be found on twitter @jw_summerisle