gaston vinas

When I first saw Radiohead’s “Wolf at the Door” music video I fell in love with visual imagery and aesthetics created by Gaston Vinas.

His fairytales are of a different kind. Like Tim Burton’s “Vincent” (1982) and “Nightmare before Christmas”, neither Vinas’s fantasy world is inhabited by fairies, unicorns or enchanted princesses nor there is a hope for “and they lived happily ever after”. Vinas’s artwork tells gloomy, intricate and quirky stories with lots of visual expressions similar to Edward Gorey’s, Tony Millionaire’s, Dame Darcy’s and John Tenniel’s. It is drawn in a rich profuse manner that merges naturalistic elements with powerful spells of the fantastic and bizarre.


Gaston Vinas investigates three colours (black, white and red), the significance and meaning of texture and detail communicating diversity of emotions, purposes, senses, ideas and notions. A picture is always busy and there is always something hiding in that dark shaded but simultaneously infinite looking background.