William M. Timlin

A signed watercolor illustration of fairies, "Gossip," by William Timlin.

• William Timlin (English).
• Signed by Timlin, as well as dated and captioned in his hand, "Gossip."
• Single watercolor, archivally matted and framed.

Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, The Ship That Sailed To Mars.

Although Timlin was born in England, he was raised in South Africa. Along with his success in painting, Timlin was also a practicing architect. The Ship That Sailed To Mars was Timlin's masterpiece, of which this artwork is reminiscent. He executed a later series of pictures intended for a book to be called The Building Of A Fairy City, but which was never published. Accomplished with rich colors in Timlin's Rackhamesque style, the fanciful picture shows a huge tree trunk used as a house. Standing at the door of the tree house is a young woman who is talking to a gnome-like man who is leaning on a fence. Peeking out of a window in the tree house is an elf-like man. Done with much detail and quite wonderful.