Shannon  Stamey

Shannon Stamey

s.stamey@lycos.com

Website: http://octoberillustrations.com

 919-358-5747

   1350 N. Meridian st., Indiananpolis, IN

I am a self-taught artist/illustrator from western North Carolina.  I grew up in a trailer park there and mostly spent my time drawing and searching the woods behind our trailer for the Wild Things…  I learned later what the meaning of the word ‘fiction’ was.  My work is mainly inspired by: Maxfield Parrish, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Abbot Handerson Thayer, Maurice Sendak, Arthur Rackham and all the French poster artists of the early 1900’s.  I’m stranded somewhere in that place between “fine art” and “illustration”; and I love it here.  My ultimate goal is to illustrate books for adults who’ve forgotten what it’s like to see things from a child’s perspective.