Penny Davenport
Posted by Fabio 3 March 2010
Penny Davenport was born in 1979 in Inverness, and grew up variously on the Isle of Skye, in Cheshire, and in Somerset. She studied Fine Art in Liverpool, and still lives and work there. Over the last few years she started to focus on drawings and illustrations of characters and scenes from stories she has written.
Her inspirations include human eyes (especially in masks) and animals, fur (both clean and matted!), nature, the positions of animals in taxidermy, unusual images and old photographs. She also like the poetry of Ted Hughes, old tins, medieval images of animals, films, (particularly watching the dynamics of on-screen relationships, as well as the relationships between the actors or documentary subjects, and the camera), physical gestures and non-verbal communication, and traditional animation.
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