WOMEN IN HORROR RECOGNITION MONTH: FABULOUS FEMALE ARTIST

In honor of Women In Horror Recognition Month, I hereby present this week's final post including three of my favorite female horror artists.

'The Strange Girl' by Mia Mäkilä

 MIA MÄKILÄ

'Wedding of Vampires' by Mia Mäkilä

"Picture Pippi Longstocking and Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman having a love child. That's me." That's how Swedish artist Mia Mäkilä describes the style of her own work; horror pop surrealism, or simply dark lowbrow. 

Being self-educated in the artist field Mia Mäkilä has taken a lot of inspiration from film directors such as Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock and Tim Burton. Which is richly displayed in the work of her art. She mixes fantasy with surrealism and horror with humor in an amazingly impressive way. Her outstanding voice and vision speaks through her paintings, digital art and mixed media, where fear, angst, madness rage and sorrow blend together - making demons have fun on the canvas.  

Check out more of Mia's work at her website and visit her blog here. Observe that most posts are in Swedish.

DANIELLE K.L. ANATHEMA 

Photo by Danielle K.L. Anathema

Turning nightmares into art, photographer Danielle K.L. Anathema learned to embrace the unknown and turn the images in her dreams into images for an audience. Danielle has turned the bizarre and deformed, into beautiful and mesmerizing and made it, above all, accepted. I like her playful way with modern photography; where the raw nature of blood and gore meets the untouched female beauty, where heathenism meets materialistic society.

Having a lot of friends and acquaintances who work as both photographers and models within the industry of 'alternative photography' I'm usually rather fed up with tattooed chicks in latex corsets. However, I really like Danielle's different and somewhat dirty approach. This is a photographer from whom I'm really looking forward to see future work.

Check out more of Danielle's current work 'THE HAUNTED, THE HUNTED AND THE HEATHENS OF 2012' at her website or visit her blog at anathemaphotography.com/blog/.



JOVANKA VUCKOVIC

Jovanka Vuckovic (2009)

Former editor-in-chief for Rue Morgue magazine, Jovanka Vuckovic's Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead digs deep into the zombie genre and the history of the undead. Exploring everything from the earliest films like White Zombie (1932) and the origins of zombies in the voodoo culture, to how the zombie genre has influenced modern pop culture and modern music artists, Jovanka Vuckovic seems to leave no stone unturned.

 Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead presents an astonishing amount of illustrations, foreign posters, lobby cards and other promotional material for every film discussed. Which is no wonder, since its author and illustrator is a multi-talented woman, playing a pivotal role in the horror field. She had a brief stint as a visual effects artist, won a Gemini Award for Best Visual Effects. She's appeared in several documentaries such as: Zombiemania (2008) and Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror (2009), and has written, produced and directed the upcoming fantasy/horror short film The Captured Bird (2012).

Jovanka Vuckovic's a horror-icon in her own right, and an artist in the true word.

Zombies! An Illustrated History
of the Undead (2011) illustrated cover

"The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today's cinema, popular literature and comics. With one simple premise that the dead rise again to feast on the living and turn them into zombies, the undead have inspired a huge variety of artists to explore ideas of survival, morality, fear, humor and horror. ZOMBIES! is the first book to take a wide look at the whole phenomenon, from low budget cult movies to long-running comics and best-selling humor novels. With stunning imagery, and an authoritative and entertaining text from one of the worlds most distinguished experts on the genre, plus a foreword by master of horror George A. Romero, this tome will appall and delight the reader in equal measure."


Also, check out: Laine Hagan - Death by Photograph.