Ep 100 The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke: Lena Heide Brennand

Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master‑Stroke is one of the most intricate, unsettling, and mesmerising fairy paintings ever created — and few people speak about it with more insight and imaginative clarity than Lena Heide Brennand. Lena is a curator, researcher, and host at the Last Tuesday Society and the Viktor Wynd Museum.In this episode, we explore the uncanny brilliance of Dadd’swork, the story of his life and legacy, and the strange magnetism of The Fairy Feller’s Master‑Stroke. Lena shares her love of Nordic and fairy folklore, the threads of myth and music that run through her creative practice,and the ways folklore becomes a living, breathing presence in her work.Elimination of a Picture & its Subject—called The Fellers' Master Stroke - Queen – The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke