Emily Crabtree Stephens

Drawing inspiration from folklore, nature, illustration, and horror, Emily's art comes from a special place where diverse mediums, complex textures, and bold color theory blur the lines between reality and fantasy — a place she hopes you will be inspired.

Why She Is Here

Look at the range in one picture and the folklore part is obvious: a shrouded figure in charcoal, a field of eyes and lightning, a paper boat trailing a rainbow through space, hands reaching through a sun. It moves between the tender and the unsettling without seeming to change gear, which is exactly what the older stories do.

Half this index is places where somebody saw something and nobody could agree what. Her work sits in the same doubt and seems happy there.

Getting Hold Of It

Everything goes on Instagram. There's no shop, no prints, no Etsy — if you want something of hers, you ask her for it. She takes commissions and the account below is where to start that conversation.