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Mermaid artists and art collections

Stylish mermaid art from Liza Phoenix Fantasy Art . This is some great stuff.

Durwaigh Gallery. Gorgeous, never-vulgar fantasy art by a number of artists, including Marc Potts, Linda Ravenscroft, David Delamare, John Silver, Ian Daniels, Kinuko Craft, and Amoreno.

The Ethereal Visions of Matt Hughes has some truly arresting mermaid images, faeries and angels.

Ursula Vernon / www.metalandmagic.com. Ms. Vernon is my new favorite artist, not for her art—although her work is excellent—but for her amusing, often self-referential or programmatic captions. See Atlantis Calling ("Mermaids in my world, like seals, are covered in scar tissue and blubber"), Sewer mermaid and Lit By Fireflies , and her amusing essay "Because It�s Fantasy And I Say So."

Painted Mermaid Gallery, South Paris, Maine. Brenda Bliss Sauro, the artist, is extremely prolific, painting mermaids on murals, headboards and table tops as well as canvas. As a fellow Mainer, I appreciate her "The Chase," with a mermaid and a (presumably love-sick) mermaid.

Shadowscapes / Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. Ms. Law has a very distinctive style, to my eye very attractive. Mermaids and Lorelei ae found in various galleries. Her angels are wonderful.

David Delamare. Gorgeous, ubiquitous mermaid images.

Elfwood: Lauren (Medusa) Tregenza. Dozens of mermaid drawings, and such interesting oddities as a Shiger.

Tarnished Images: Ruth Thompson. Some mermaids; much striking fantasy art.

Musings: Queena Okpeku-DeBoever . See her gallery mer. Not fantasy art.

Hannah Fraser. Striking mermaids, but I was even more struck by her fashion photography, and her own modeling. This confluence of talents seems very unfair! And her sister is a boffo web designer.

Noah Fine Art with a striking mermaid gallery.

Fantasy Art by Selene Fenech, with mermaid art.

Isa Maria: Mermaids and Lovers mermaid gallery. Gorgeously-colored oil paintings. She also does commissioned mermaid portraits.

Sirene by Ettore Toniolo and Marianna Battocchio. Italian art project; photographs of photographs of mermaid women. Very cool. Very odd. From their Villa dei Mitti. Warning: Italian.

Saerafair Mermaid Art Gallery by Saera Lin Hawkins, with a (nudity-free) children's gallery. She also covers faeries.

Little bronze mermaids from sculptor Austin Fox. Diminutive sculptures in various poses.

Fatara World, the Official Art Website of Maxine Gadd. Striking mermaid art.

Patricia Campbell / MadaboutMermaids.com. Campbell paints highly appealing "light fantasy" mermaids, some alone, some with lovers, and some with merbabies.

Emily R. Bucherati's deep-water angel, and others, from Elfwood Science Fiction and Fantasy Art.

Mermaid prints by Sarah Young. I quite fell in love with Sarah Young's prints. See more at her website.

Mermaid Art by Lee Elizabeth Pike, from her site Vive Illusion, with galleries of fairies, dragons and so forth. She also has an attractive research page, where she expresses succintly a strong current in sirenophilia.

"They are a myth and living legend that embody, to me, the power and secrets of the gigantic force that we cannot reckon with, the power of nature herself."

Vince Cavataio photoshopped images, mostly of mermaids in surf.

Merpeople by Pamelina H. organized into three galleries of Celestial Mermaids, Tattoo Mermaids and Mermaids and Mermen. These are different mermaids—mermaids in space, vampire mermaids, heavy metal mermaids.

"Acadia a-me-quo-hi Mairghread"'s mermaid art.

Aquafemina. Katharina Woodworth's watercolor mermaids.

MoonDragon Images. The Art of S. Lianne Waelder.

David Gough's Mermaid Art. His Urban Fairies are striking.

Mary Baxter St. Claire.

Ann Van Eps, Mermaids Gallery.

Night Air Studios, The Airbrush Wizardy of Jay Trefethen

Maria J. William: Mare Infinitus, fantasy art from a New York artist.

L.W. Perkins has some very arresting fantasy art, including mermaids.

Vera Lucia's Fantasy World. Brazilian artist with a very full mermaid gallery.

Tania Henderson. See her Mermaid Gallery. "Blue Mermaid" and "Lauren" are my favorites—take a look at the waves in "Lauren." I was also impressed by her graphic-novel treatment of a metaphor employed by Andersen:

"... She can never be quite human.
When she walks on her dearly
bought feet,
every step
is on sharp knives."

Fantasy Artist Lindsay Archer. See Mermaids. Some of her work can be bought at The Prints and the Pauper.

Fantasy Art by Laurie Leigh .

Siren Gallery from "Monstrous"

Howard David Johnson Fantasy Art, and Pinups.

John T. Unger fashions a wide variet of interesting mosaics.

Nancy Chien-Eriksen's Mermaids and other art.

Amy Brown Fantasy Art. Faeries are the main event here, but there are few mermaids and "water divas" done in her distinctive style.

Nirvana Creations / Juliet Moonet. Mermaids in a distinctive breezy style. "Parfume La Mermaid" is memorable.

ASFA: R. Stephen Adams . One memorable image, "Heart of the Ocean."

ASFA: Francine Barbet.

Daniel Cortopassi. Highly-accomplished 3D work.

The Art of Meredith Dillman. Dillman does gorgeous fairies, and the occasional mermaid. She also does anime, and some of her non-anime works have an anime sensibility.

Anne El-Habre. I am very fond of her statement on ASFA.

"I try to go back to the beginning, to the origins of most of the folklore and the stories that were told. I find that over the years and centuries the stories get watered down and homogenized to the point where they have lost the sense of what made them so provocative in the first place. Faeries are not cuddly, mermaids are not friendly, and angels, from any culture, are formidable."

Beth Hansen: Art of Faery & Myth. Hansen specializes in faeries, but has a few mermaids and dragons.

John E. Kaufman. Kaufman has some of the more unusual dragon art, including the "Beer Dragon" (A Saint Bernard take-off) and a luminescent dragon's egg.

Charlene Maguire / Shapeshifter Studios. Appealing fantasy and non-fantasy art.

ASFA: Steve Roberts. Attractive light mermaid art. Unfortunately, his personal art site seems down.

James Ryman. Talented fantasy author has a unclad section.

Dragginart Studios' artist Dusten Sonnon

The Artwork of Anthony Waters. Science fiction and fantasy.

Stan Wisniewski's Painting Gallery.

Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Vallejo, at least, needs no introduction. They seem to have merged web opperations entirely.

MaverickArts The Official Website of Monte M. Moore. Lush mermaid and angel pinups and extravagant dragon sculpture.

Jennifer O'Meara's Dragon Dreams. Meara has some striking stuff—dragons, angels, mermaids, even a griffin. Unfortunately, the posted sizes are often small.

Delight's Fantasy Art. Mermaids and dragons.

Nemia Rucker / The Rucker Homepage. Stylish angels, mermaids and dragons.

Barclay Shaw. Book and magazine cover illustrator of "eclectic originality."

Maggie I. Wang has a maniacal grin.

Freondream / Meilin Wong. Winged humanoids and other creatures. Her Rape-of-Nanking painting Hush is disturbing.

Joy Day, artist and costume designer.

Heather Lee Harvey. Only one mermaid(on her Elfwood site), but she has lots of good dragons.

Photoshoped photos by Valan Evers, Kurt Cagle, and Jack Henslee, who also offer to mermaid-up your nude photos for a fee.

Paintings by Fernand Pierre. Haitian artist paints a lot of mermaids.

The Magical Art of Joanna Powell Colbert.

Jim Warren, "Master of the Imagination!"

Barnstudio.com (Scot and Pat Howden).

Adam Rote. Mermaids in his Sunstroke Gallery.

Ric Illustrations. Mermaid drawings and cartoons in great numbers, frequently updated. Mermaid art generally objectifies but, to my eye, some of Ric's work is just vulgar and sexist.

Mermaid ASCII art from Joan Stark's Gallery of Original ASCII Art.

John Silver Fantasy art site. Mermaids, dragons, Authurian themes.

humAnimals. Strange stuff, including some mermaids. From Guido's Imaginae.

Gretchen Ophelia Evenstar Sveda's Mythos Gallery. Her Dragons gallery is quite extensive.

Carina 'CeL' Larsson (Elfwood) . One merman and some "sea people," but an impressive set of dragons, unicorns and griffons.

Tiger Lily Treasures / Beth Norton. Norton does some very colorful and striking stained glass mosaics, her fine art gallery includes angels and mermaids.

Tobias Brenner. German artist with two memorable dragon images.

Printable cut-outs mermaid outfits for paper dolls from Liana's Paper Doll Boutique. If this is your thing, this is a great site for it.

Jenny Pencil: Jenny Archibald.

Mark Maztke, DreamScape Artist, with a mermaids section.

Pirates and Mermaids from The Magical Fantasy Art of Ericka Baque.

Bryan Bustard.

Magical Fantasy Art of Steve A. Roberts has two mermaid images in the fantasy gallery.

The Enchanted Art Collection of Jessica Galbreth-Painter.

Lilleah Adora West (Elfwood).

Christina E. Chang (Elfwood) . Some mermaids; more dragons. Her twin sister, Catherine V. Chang also has mermaids.

Giovanna Guimaraes (Elfwood). Brazilian Elfwood-ist with a striking griffons, and a mermaid or two.

ASFA: Rob Alexander.

Michele-Lee Phelan from AFAC, also on her own site, Art of the Empath.

B.L. Render / Bloodsong produces interesting 3D computer art, with dramatic camera angles and situations.

Mermaid's Tail. B. Brookwell's Photoshopped mermaids site. Mr. Brookwell is a tireless mermaider, taking pictures found here and there on the web or sent to him specially, and giving them that mermaid touch. Also includes a few mermaics by others, some CAD-CAM-style mermaids, and other hybrids, like centaurs, even chairs! Most images also have a little story—not one of which have I managed to read through. The fetish and the "twisted" undercurrent doesn't appeal to me either. This site is the most amazing combination of surprising and intensely boring.

Out of the Mists, The Art of Claudia Connelly.

Dorian Cleavenger. This is some extreme stuff. Linking to the average partially-clad mermaid doesn't bother my conscience at all. I can understand a parent who would want their kids shielded from such images, but the onus is on them to provide the right moral context, supervision and software. Cleavenger's work, by contrast, disquiets me. The mermaid images are mostly okay, but he also fashions highly-sexualized images of angels, fairies, vampires, snakes, nun-demons, octopus-demons, and even bug-aliens, with an in-mixture of violence, perverse religion, medical implements, leather, and fluids. To be fair, his technique is quite impressive.

Reanimated Art: The Art of Max Humber.Only one mermaid drawing (Something Evil), but I enjoyed his other work.

Dika Wolfe . One mermaid.

James Brown. Sells his work on eBay.

"Birth of a Mermaid" sculpture, by Shane Smith.

Alicia 'Griffon Lady' Hamm. (Ms. Hamm doesn't have many mermaids, but my upcoming griffons page will be drawing on her work quite a bit.)

Anneke Hut has one Loreilei, and many angels.

Rebecca Kemp / www.wildlife-fantasy.com has some striking silhouettes, including a mermaid.

Lauren D. Eaves (Elfwood), college student at Willamette.

Graham Piggott, clay sculptor (Bladon, Oxfordshire)

Young Danish man in underwear posing in front of the Little Mermaid or—apparently after the mermaid was knocked off its rock—in place of it. I can't read the text. See also here (down a bit).

Coney Island Mermaid Parade

The Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade.This big, crazy, fleshy mermaid parade takes place on first Saturday after the solstice, or in their words:

"The Mermaid Parade is a completely original creation that is that nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events."

All Things Considered: "Audio Postcard: Coney Island's Mermaid Parade" report on the 2004 parade by Melissa Jaeger-Miller.

Lisa Whiteman's 2004 and 2003 photos.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade Pics (2000–2003) from Tim's Brooklyn Bizzarro.

Robert Huber's gallery (2002 parade)

Forgotten NY's 2005 pictures and 2004 pictures. Scroll down to see galleries back to 2000. I enjoy their occasional snarky comments. Forgotten NY is a good site generally.

Four galleries (2001–2004) with lots of photos from Costume Network.

Eric Britto 2002-2004 galleries.

Daniel Harvey's 2004 photos.

Bambi the Mermaid. Mermaid performer, with a parade gallery.

Boobs Mermaids on Parade entry by Jake Dobkin on the 2005 parade, from the Gothamist.

3-D and "4-D" images from the parade. Robert Munn and Sara Cook print these images such that walking by them reveals motion. They are online as moving gifs (which aren't very fun because they only capture 1-2 seconds of time), and as old-fashioned images that are apparently 3-D if you have the right kind of glasses. The saucy pictures are here.

Urban Voyeur's 2002 pictures. Not more risque than others...

Albert Xavier's 2004 photos.

Francis Heaney's 2004 photos.

popsummer.typepad.com 2004 pictures.

Michael Cossentino's 2004 pictures.

"There are parades, and then there's Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade. Elaborate costumes, live music, and more semi-bare breasts (both male and female) than you can shake a corndog at."

David Klein's 2000 photos.

2004 parade images (unknown author)

Geoffrey Notkin's 2002 pictures.

Frank Dinaro's 2004 pictures.

2001 pictures from Indiefilmpage.com.

2001 photos by Jeff Walloch.

Rowdy 2005 pictures.