Ellen Jewett, a talented sculptor based in Canada, merges plants, animals and even life-less objects to create impressive fantasy creatures.

Hauntingly beautiful, Jewett’s bizarre sculptures look like something out of a dream… or a nightmare, depending how you look at them.

“Plants and animals have always been the surface on which humans have etched the foundations of culture, sustenance, and identity,” says the artist on her website, noting that, for her, natural forms are a continual source of fascination and deep aesthetic pleasure.

“At first glance my work explores the more modern prosaic concept of nature: a source of serene nostalgia balanced with the more visceral experience of ‘wildness’ as remarkably alien and indifferent. Upon closer inspection of each ‘creature’ the viewer may discover a frieze on which themes as familiar as domestication and as abrasive as domination fall into sharp relief,“ the talented sculptor adds.