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Ingrid Houwers, better known nowadays as 'GrayWolf', was born in the Netherlands and currently lives in the beautiful County Down, in Northern Ireland. From a young age she showed a great passion for nature, animals and plants alike and creating things.
GrayWolf is a mostly self-taught artist and nowadays she draws, paints, crafts and designs countless of things for a living. She has made her hobby and her love for creating into her job. Next to that she is a corset maker and wearer, allowing customers to design their own dream corset for her to make into the real thing. Click on the text below to be taken to the corset website:
GrayWolf Corsets
She's also a taxidermist, acknowledged by the state, and has done many commissions for museums, schools and other teaching facilities and people that are genuinely interested in nature. She refuses to work on anything that has been killed for the main purpose of having it mounted on their wall and prefers to work on animals that have died a natural cause. In the taxidermy field she's mostly known for the ways she's able to put back the expression and character that belong to a certain animal.
She created countless traditional styled Celtic and Pictish jewelry, t-shirts and tattoo designs, designed business logos, has illustrated childerns book, card decks, featured in many limited edition portfolios and sold many prints, cards and posters of her work. Her specialties are traditional Celtic and Pictish works, but also her own 'free-style' she developed throughout her personal studies of those arts, fantasy, anthromorhpic and spiritual and inspirational based art.
