Books by Nathalie Tierce

“You are a genuine visionary artist with a direct line to your subconscious.”

— R. Crumb on Nathalie Tierce

In Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is full of pricks, strange, short adult fairy tales are delivered with surreal illustrations. These fables take the contradictions of contemporary life, dress it in storybook garb, and serve it as a vision one might have had in a fever dream or an acid trip.

Tierce participates in the Goreyesque tradition of destroying readers’ expectations for the work they have picked up — in this case, the picture book. Jessica McCort - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Chronicles of Fear - Tales of Woe delivers a series of darkly humorous visual allegories in which strange characters embody the anxieties, contradictions, and private fears of the human psyche.

Tierce's paintings are wonderful. Bizarre and genuine and unsettling. Some reminded me of the great George Grosz. I loved [her] prose. I was left wanting more.

Dave Cooper, artist, cartoonist, animator, author

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Through surreal drawings and brief texts, Fairy Tale Remnants gathers the leftover fragments of myth, instinct, and human folly. Strange figures drift through scenes that feel half-remembered and slightly off, exposing the fragile masks people wear to survive the absurd theater of everyday existence.

All the illustrations in this book were once on canvas, reproduced in this little glossy book in full color, and it’s a pleasure to look at. That pleasure, however, comes with an edge. As noted in the review, these works are “dark and surreal, populated by figures that are ‘contorted, out of sync, and grotesque’—images that linger somewhere between fable and nightmare.

Drawing on childhood visions of “monsters… waiting to jump out and grab her,” Tierce transforms shadow and imagination into a vividly unsettling visual language. The result is a collection that is as compelling as it is disquieting—inviting viewers into a world where beauty and distortion coexist.

—Craven Rock, Razorcake Magazine

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