Meyer Ilene

Ilene Meyer (1939-2009) was a self-trained oil painter from the USA whose work combines realism, fantasy, surrealism, and psychedelic colours and patterns. Her early work was based on the fruit and flowers she used as models, with real and imagined animals joining these as time progressed. Her work became popular in the fantasy art world, gracing the cover of books by James K. Morrow, Philip K. Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley and other science fiction and fantasy authors. F.X. Schmid produced puzzles based on her paintings. She also became more popular in Japan than in her home country.