This is a new section to the site, this section will, I hope grow a lot more over the following months.

If anybody out there loves to do paintings, drawings or whatever on the subjects of Sideshows, Elephant Man etc please get in contact with me with your scanned images and I will put them onto the site. Who knows, you may even be able to sell them.

Banner Artwork by Amy Johnquest. See Below.Visit her Website Here If you order, dont forget to tell them who sent you!

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Jaymi Zents Sculptures. Wonderful, but maybe disturbing, sculptures Made from human hair and polymer (amongst other things). All are for sale, so contact her for details.
Title: Death of an Angel This picture, by just looking at it, tells a sad tale. It is picture showing the death of Mary Jane Merrick. Joseph's dear mother. I feel that this one is quite depressing but still a very well done portrait, showing a mother's devotion to her children only to have their relationship cut short. Shown in the picture is a child's drawing posted on the wall.
Title: Building the Cathedral A very nice picture in pen and ink. It shows a 3/4 view of Merrick holding up a peice of the cathedral to the sunlight comming from his window. Small sun-beams can be seen penetrating through the tiny card-board, gothic window. The face, I felt, was hard to render for the only clear photo's I have seen of Merrick were of the cast molds from the London Hospital. The photo's themselves were in black and white, making the mouth very hard to draw.
This "World's Largest Freak Museum" banner is painted in a more traditional carnival sideshow manner. Unlike my linen mesh banners, this is painted on heavy canvas "Bag Duck" with seat belt webbing sewn around the back side edges, and D-rings sewn in the corners at a 45 degree angle. It measures 6'wide x 10' tall. It lives in the strange living room of a man in Texas who, in addition to his kids, has quite a wonderful accumulation of freaky things in his house. He roughed out a sketch for the design and from his pencil sketch I expanded the idea into this. It's hard to appreciate the detail and color in this banner from the JPEG; Like wood grains in the floor or the many little undulating hairs on "Billy the Wild Ponytail Boy".
This sideshow banner was created for display at the Guild Art Center in Northampton, Mass.to celebrate the town's annual sidewalk sale
Samira el-Safi is the beautiful and talented belly dancer that enormously pleases those lucky enough to be in her audience with rhythmic and artistic body gyrations. This sideshow banner adorns her home in Virginia.
Site and graphics constructed and designed by Pete Marsden. Contact me at peetfeet@geocities.com