Who we are
We’re Dawn and Joe, a wife and husband team who love art, nature and learning about the past.
Dawn is our administrative heart. She keeps everything on track, handles paperwork and attempts to keep Joe from becoming too distracted. While she enjoys prehistoric life, Dawn is drawn to life and customs from Georgian and Victorian England. Her first chat up line to Joe was “What’s your favourite dinosaur?”
Joe has an employment history in engineering, production, delivery and sales. He is our artist and resident prehistory enthusiast. He proposed to Dawn in the museum where they had their first date with a carnotaurus prop he made (that is his favourite dinosaur by the way).
This business is for the young at heart, anyone who visited a museum and wished they could take a piece home with them, or perhaps for those at learning institutions who want people to feel that way!
What we want to do is be different. That is why everything offered on this website can only be found through this website, and all of it made sustainably, by hand and whenever possible the elements are sourced from local small businesses.
Our Partnered Artists
We’ll admit to having a soft spot for Dave at Nova Studios. His encouragement made us believe we could do this, and we have been working closely with him - often texting back and forth late into the night. Dave is our exclusive source for skeletal reconstructions. We made our decision to go down this route, firstly, because we like Dave, and secondly because he ethically sources his information, references from museums and scientists - and then credits them.
When you see Agustin’s work, it is like seeing Jurassic Park in a cinema for the first time - you just feel it in your bones he has hit pretty close to the mark in capturing how these creatures really appeared. His scales aren’t uniform, his creatures have rolls and wrinkles. They are real and they are beautiful. Agustin is also just lovely.
If you are going to have a paleoart business, you need to have someone like Fabrizio on call. He combines the best of both worlds: he is capable of providing scientifically accurate sculpts of species, but he can also go down the retro route at a moment’s notice and create awesome stylized reconstructions of prehistoric life. Fabrizio’s art is “cool” and that is because he is as well.
Contact us
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