Amy Higgins

Amy Higgins creates ink drawings rooted in a deep fascination with dark folklore, gothic atmospheres, magic, and otherworldly mythical creatures. Working with ink—a medium as unforgiving as it is honest—she channels the energy of witches, wild women, beasts, and the liminal figures who have long inhabited the margins of our collective imagination.

Born in Malta, Amy's work is shaped by the island's ancient stones, rich folklore, and liminal mysteries. The Maltese landscape—with its prehistoric temples, occult histories, and enduring legends—permeates her approach to mark-making and myth.

Her drawings reclaim narratives where power, magic, and wildness were cast as dangerous, seductive, or Other. These are figures and creatures who embody the cyclical nature of creation and destruction, the wisdom found in darkness, and the untamed forces that myth sought to contain. Goats and skulls emerge as recurring motifs—symbols of mortality, fertility, and the occult—while wolves, ravens, and other creatures of symbolic significance accompany figures who exist in liminal spaces where dreams merge with ancient memory.

Amy embellishes her compositions with goldleaf, lending them a medieval luminosity that honors both the sacred and the shadowed. Through her illustrative practice, she explores darkness not as something sinister, but as a necessary counterbalance: the shadow that makes wholeness possible, the night that births the dawn.

Her work is an invitation to remember what has been forgotten, to reclaim what has been feared, and to see the sacred in the darkness.