| Charlotte Bird
Charlotte was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England in 1958. Her family was stationed there with her Father who was in the RAF. He would often read Charlotte fairy stories and poetry before she went to bed, and it is these that she owes her love of the little folk.
Charlotte started photography at the age of 7. Her Father was a keen photographer and printer, and the family set up a darkroom in the cellar of the house. Although Charlotte had dabbled in photography in her early years, it wasn't until her two children had grown up that she took it up seriously.
Attending the local college, Charlotte finished with a diploma in Photography, qualifying with seven distinctions.
Enchanted with the work of the Victorians, especially fairies and Pre-Raphaelites, she developed a style that was influenced by these. Charlotte's awareness that fact and fantasy could co-exist became the very heart of her photographic work, and may also explain it's illustrative nature.
Her fairy studies form a mutual and loving game of private dreams, played out amongst secret gardnes, woodlands and other beautiful places.
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