Do fortune telling fungi tell futuristic fairytales? According to artist Kath Leone, they just might. The Fortune Tellers is a whimsical and intricately crafted miniature artwork that invites the viewer...
Do fortune telling fungi tell futuristic fairytales? According to artist Kath Leone, they just might. The Fortune Tellers is a whimsical and intricately crafted miniature artwork that invites the viewer into a surreal, storybook world where mushrooms become quiet narrators of what’s to come.
This six-layer hand-pulled screenprint is printed on beautifully textured Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper, known for its richness and quality. Each piece is finished with a subtle watercolour wash, creating a dreamlike background that enhances the layered detail of the print. Because the background is hand-painted, each print in the edition carries slight variations, making every artwork a unique piece in its own right.
Kath Leone is a UK-based printmaker celebrated for her curious, nature-inspired imagery and love of traditional processes. Her work often explores the intersection between the natural world, folklore, and imaginative storytelling. With The Fortune Tellers, she combines her passion for screenprinting with her distinctive visual voice to create a tiny but powerful piece that sparks wonder.
Whether you’re a collector of contemporary prints, a lover of fungi, or simply drawn to the strange and beautiful, The Fortune Tellers offers a magical glimpse into a world just beyond our own.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kath Leone
Kath Leone is a contemporary artist and textile designer from Cape Town, South Africa. Her highly imaginative, pseudo botanical art features plants, insects, animals, fungi and sea life. Compelled by the glow and depth of overlapping colours in screen printing, Kath aims to capture some of the charm found in old-fashioned fabrics by combining layers of translucent inks to build enchanting colour palettes in her work.
Having a condition called synaesthesia, specifically grapheme-colour and chromesthesia, Kath experiences continual additional colour, texture and shape perception when hearing everyday sounds and words. This saturates Kath’s mind and life, influencing her artistic practice and explaining her obsession with colour-mixing.