The Lost Dragons：The Wondrous Egg

Mark A Gilchrist has been enthralled with the magical, the fantastic, and, ultimately, the Divine since childhood. The expression of this deep joy came through picture and illustration through his younger years and into his career. It has long been his passion and aim to marry the image to the written word and create worlds, not so disconnected from ours as to be an escapist, but to give a glimpse, to pull back the veil, if only briefly, to the world as it was and once again may be in the heart of every human.

For those with the gift of word or picture, of music or dance, it is to their great pleasure and fulfillment to share it with those around. Mark has long desired, and is now in the throws of opportunity, to share stories and art aimed squarely at the lifting of the head and the buoying of the heart.

As Tolkien once wrote, “It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the ‘turn’ comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality ... In such stories when the sudden “turn” comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.”

Mark is inspired by, indebted to but not slave to the works of J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, J K Rowling, Brian Rathbone, Michael Scott, and Geoffrey Chaucer.