Forever Strange: The Big-Eyed Art of Jasmine Becket-Griffith

by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Amber Logan, Kachina Mickeletto

For the past two decades, fantasy artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith has entranced a worldwide audience with her pop-surrealist acrylic paintings. Exploring themes of magic, mystery, and historical reference, infused with gothic melancholy, her original characters always evoke a sense of wonder and visceral human connection with their trademark large expressive eyes. This volume is an expansive monograph of full color fine art reproductions of Jasmine's recent paintings, and serves as an heirloom tome for lifelong collectors, while at the same time providing an exciting introduction to new fans. Featuring background descriptions and artistic insights from Jasmine herself, the artworks are also accompanied by the poetry and short stories of Amber Logan and Kachina Mickeletto―the artist's sisters―and author Matthew David Becket, revealing the inspiration behind some of the artist's most well-loved images.

Genres: Art

184 pages, Hardcover

Published October 8, 2018

About the author

To be fair, I am more of a painter than I am a writer! I have written a couple of contemporary art history books, and collaborated on a lot of other art-related projects. Notably most of my books are those primarily featuring my acrylic paintings, or companion pieces to the popular Oracle Decks I've created with Lucy Cavendish. I live in Celebration, Florida with my husband/assistant Matt and our cats, and spend most of my days painting! To keep up with my artwork, please feel free to check out my Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jasmine... (I post there daily!) My primary gallery is Pop Gallery Orlando at Downtown Disney, so if you are ever at Walt Disney World, definitely stop by!

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such beautiful artwork and enchanting short stories. I loved it.

[christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love her artwork. Bought two so I can destroy one for the artwork XD.

The stories were awesome too

[Yinzadi · Rating 5 out of 5]

If Betty Boop were goth and drawn for the female gaze.