These colour pencil drawings are produced by Josie Perry, within our collaborative project ‘Plasma Spring’, a comic book series stemming from a quick-fire script writing process fictionalising figures from art history and popular media. "Tamara and the Swan" depicts a moment in the story where a vampiric Tamara, based on Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka and her painting "Young Lady with Gloves" (1930), is fighting a swan in the bathroom of painter Leonor Fini’s apartment. Several swans trapped for centuries within ice sculptures that double as bathroom fittings have broken free due to the rising temperature in the apartment, caused by the arrival of several winged poodles intent on saving the comic’s main character, Pauline, from the sapphic vampires.

Daphne Simons

Tamara and the Swan