Withersin’s Damned Interview with:
Caroline O’Neal
I'm a self-taught free-lance
painter-illustrator. I live in
I have been fascinated since childhood by legends, myths, fantasy
& fairy-tales, anything strange and bizarre. Whether it's for children, teens or adults. Or whether it's "serious" or humoristic
...
And I do have a great admiration for Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolist,
Art Nouveau and Heroic Fantasy painters/illustrators.
List published works:
I have illustrated for various
children/teens items such as books, games and clothes and for some
SF/Horror/Fantasy magazines & books : Bad Moon Books (us), Apex (us), Darktales (uk), Midnight Street (uk), Space & Time (us), The Willows (us), Sam's Dot
Publishing (us), Solstice (French) and Sable (Spanish) ...
List website: www.carolineoneal.com
How can we contact you? illustrator@carolineoneal.com
In your own words, define
Withersin.
Difficult
for a newbie to say! ;o)))… A new interesting
horror-fantasy mag!?
If you were a sideshow act,
what would you be?
Well,
any dance show … Since I have done and do a lot of
dancing (classic ballet, belly/oriental dance, afro …) … Love it!
What is your greatest
non-literary influence?
Many
things: Nature, movies, music, old towns & places, antic objects and of
course many painters & illustrators!
Describe your most
irrational fear.
People... Heights…
How about your
most guilty pleasure?
Huh?
… Stupid kinky day-dreaming! ;o))) … Well more annoying
than guilty I’d say, especially when you’re supposed to get some work done
! ;o)
Name the most disturbing
nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.
“Peau d’Ane” (“Donkey Skin”)… a
beautiful fairy-tale written by the famous Charles Perrault
(Blue Beard, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, etc...) in the 17th
century... Beautiful but disturbing in a way since it talks about incest, far
before people would talk about these matters!
Do you eat meat?
Sometimes.
Name your favorite garden
tool.
A
watering-can
Name your least favorite
color, first job and worst job.
-
Love more or less all the colors of the rainbow... But Ok the one I like less
could be: Lemon yellow.
- First
job: Secretary & help book-keeper (was what I would call an alimentary job)
- Worst
job: Secretary & help book-keeper! ;o)))
Favorite: Author,
Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.
Only
one of each!? Jeeez
that’s hard to do. I love so many movies of all kinds and do love so many
different music styles (classic, world music, new age, blues, singers, pop,
rock, electro, metal, gothic rock, black metal, symphonic black metal).
So,
here are few chosen only among the “DARK” stuff:
Author:
Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Alan Poe, Emile Verharen.
Movie:
John Irvin’s: GHOST STORY (1981), The Company of Wolves, Eternal, Sleepy
Hollow, The Legend of Sweeney Todd (John Schlesinger’s, with Ben Kingsley),
From Hell.
Music
Group: Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Mortiis, Rob Zombie, King Diamond, Black Label Society, Death
Stars, Within Temptation, Leave’s Eyes, Katatonia, Finntroll, London After Midnight, Virgin Prunes, Wall of
Voodoo.
If you were a loaf of bread
what kind would you be?
Full
grain mixed cereals with pumpkin seeds bread.
Why horror?
Why not... After
all it’s part of legends, myths & fairy-tales and... Human’s average life & behavior!