Artist - Cobweb Mehers

I sculpt and paint for very different reasons. My sculptures are about exploring mythical and historical themes slowly and in depth. Many have been inspired by prehistoric art and have been a way of getting inside the heads of those who have gone before. Some were sold in conjunction with the British Museum’s Ice Age art exhibition in 2013 and included a recreation of The Swimming Reindeer commissioned for the event.

My work has also appeared in the Severin Films horror anthology, The Theatre Bizarre, and I continue to collaborate with Finnish director Lauri Löytökoski on costume and prop design. My paintings are much more personal. I’m a firm believer that the main function of art is the fixing of visions, and I use a mixture of digital and traditional techniques to record and share my experiences, and the entities encountered at the wilder ends of the consciousness spectrum.

​Despite their personal and subjective nature the most important aspect of this for me is exploring the points of commonality I discover across history and geography. The things which make us human remain the same no matter who, where, or when we are. I like to to immerse myself in the strange and beautiful, spending cold nights and sunny days in largely forgotten places, poking dead religions with sticks; accompanied by fairies, angels, lost gods, and my long-suffering wife. Sometimes I paint purely to get things I wish I hadn’t seen, out of my head.