Greetings, fellow dreamers

I'm Sarah, an artist James invited to this intriguing collective. Although I expressed to him uncertainty on whether or not what I do would fit in with writings I felt might be of a deeper and more intellectual strain, he assured me I would be welcome. I haven't had the time to read everything which has already been posted here, but felt I was having an unusually eloquent moment and wanted to take advantage of it.

I'm a painter, striving to be an fantasy illustrator. In that, I find my paintings to mesh well with writing. I endeavor to create works that, while they may have a particular story to me as I'm creating them, are intended to inspire possible stories for others, rather than tell my own. I am delighted, infact, to have inspired as least two fantasy writers by some of my works (one very recently, whose whole face lit up as the ideas bloomed in his mind while gazing at three particular pieces). My middle-term goal is to illustrate book covers.

My current collection of works are, I feel, light-hearted, fun, cute or amusing pieces, a category which I'm planning to continue with for my next planned series of paintings (but from which I intend to deviate once the set is done, as one can't paint stuffed animals for very long before they are overdone and lose their charm).

I think it would be exceedingly fun, if you all wanted to include something of mine in your (our?) planned publication. Actually, I think it would be fantastic if there were even written pieces inspired by a painting to accompany them.

I'm not entirely sure what sorts of posts I might make that would be welcome here, as I already maintain a sketchblog of my own; although perhaps sketches would nicely accent the sorts of poems which are also "sketches" of a sort, rather than polished pieces.