Faery Wings

Crystalline flutters,
cellophane stretched over small bones,
luminescent shine.

- Faery Wings Chloe Henderson -

At night, behind my fluttering eyelids, I see myself flying through forests shadowed in sparkling mist, from my back protrudes great wings. Wings that are different every time. The dream always ends the same: suddenly I fall from my Faerie Queen throne, and I am myself again, wingless. I have preserved the wings in the land of the living. Watch as they twirl and spin before your eyes; that’s them dreaming of flight behind closed eyes. For now, they are solid and stuck into their fine silver forms, stretched with glittering threads and magnificent rainbow glistening opals. One day they will land back within the braids of their Queen, upon her wrist and wrapped around her ears; then they will fly again.

Faery Wings

Faery Wings was a part of my Degree Show collection in my final year at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. This collection was titled: Lexicon Creatures, and it featured five of my favourite narratives that I transformed into three-dimensional , wearable creations. Details from each tale were picked out and dissected into parts that I found beautiful, fascinating or questioning, and I constructed my interpretations into the final creatures using a variety of techniques that I had learned during my education, including: nitric acid etching, 3D printing, electroforming, and a unique beading style that I developed.

Faery Wings

This work is available for commission. Please email me at info@chloehenderson.co.uk for more details.

While developing my degree show collection at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design I discovered that my niche skill within the world of jewellery-making is etching, especially hand-drawn nitric acid etches. Through this method of scraping away

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lines of black etching fluid I fell in love with pattern drawing and this love has become my ink and paper illustrations. My portfolio of illustration is inspired by my penchant for the fantastical, and I often feature strange creatures within my highly patterned portraiture. The crisp black and white lines have become my signature style.