Well, if you must know, Andy Kehoe was thrown over­board after pirates raided the ship his sea mer­chant father worked on. He washed up on the Gala­pa­gos Islands and was raised by iguanas…

Andy has a rather lengthy biog­ra­phy ded­i­cated to his strug­gle to lead a more con­ven­tional life, and it’s that sort of imag­i­na­tion that reflects in his work. He has cre­ated work that has a rather omi­nous tone to it and whose col­or­ing gives the work a very heavy feel­ing. I love how antiqued the work looks, although the metic­u­lous detail is strik­ingly modern.

His crea­tures are old and wise. I can imag­ine them traips­ing through the world slowly, pre­sid­ing over the for­est as elders.

Andy’s work was recently fea­tured on Tiny Show­case. All images via his Flickr.