Imagine waking up one day to discover that creatures from another universe had chosen you to tell their story. That’s more or less what happened to artist Anna Mond.
Anna Mond is a contemporary artist whose paintings explore an imagined universe inhabited by fantastical creatures, hybrid beings, and dreamlike visions. She calls the visual language of this world fantasticalicizm, a style that has been unfolding intuitively since 2017, when, as Mond describes it, “these Fantastical Beings somehow reached me from a parallel reality, and it felt less like inspiration and more like a personal Big Bang.”
There’s something so imaginative about the way Mond brings these hybrid beings and otherworldly visions to life. Her paintings feel like glimpses into a universe that exists just beyond our own, where familiar forms can transform into something strange, playful, and entirely unexpected creatures.
