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About Me


Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow™
features the hand-illustrated pen-and-ink artwork of Ashleigh Talbot,
who lives in a haunted house on the very edge of the Oregon Coast.
Her many talents include her hand-drawn offset printed dark art posters,
exquisite one-of-a-kind framed curio exhibits, old school sideshow items,
limited edition hand-sewn and hand-painted mourning dolls, tombstone art,
t-shirts, her own original pen-and-ink illustrations for sale, her handmade
limited-edition books as well as a strange collection of macabre collectibles.
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is a term that was coined by
Madame Talbot in order to best
describe her own work.
*Victorian Lowbrow is a trademark of
Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow™
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One-of-a-kind Hand-Sewn and Hand-Painted Mourning Dolls and
Pen-and Ink Hand Illustrated Posters

Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow™
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My Interests

Victorian mourning, scary antiques, Brothers Quay, sideshow, cemeteries, graveyards, taphophiles, bleeding hearts, old anatomy charts, Daguerreotype, gaslight, cabinet photos, cloth dolls, stump dolls, Edward Gorey, forensic science, dime museums, tombstone art, Joel-Peter Witkin, Victorian London, Dickens, 1888, 1692, Salem witchcraft, macabre, gallows humor, fortune tellers, morbidity, absinthe, Victorian drugs, phlebotomy, Edgar A. Poe, ravens, memento mori, alchemy, curio cabinets, poison labels & bottles, Halloween, Ireland, skeletons, St. vitus, el diablo, vampires, Bell Witch, coffins, coffin furniture, strange exhibits, death, corpse, grave, funeral, shroud, necropolis, morgue, postmortem, skull and bones, weepers, penny dreadful, nightmare, tattoo flash, handmade books, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, Mercy Brown, Queen Victoria, Robert Johnson, old apothecary, mummies, superstitions, Laudanum, Opium, Victorian parlors, Victorian Lowbrow,,.

I'd like to meet:

People just like YOU!

Music:

Old Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, Robert Johnson, Southern Gothic Delta Blues, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Robert Fripp, Phil Manzanera, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Devo, The Pogues, Queen, Yello, Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley, Dolly Parton, The Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tones on Tail, David Bowie, The Damned, Joy Division, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, The Onion Eaters, Sex Pistols, Queen, Dixie Chicks, Bobby Darin, Roger Miller, Nirvana

Movies:

I don't watch many movies.

Television:

I just don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Books:

All books Victorian and Death related. Charles Dickens, Christine Quigley, Joel-Peter Witkin, Henry Miller, Poe, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Graveyard Poets, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Sylvia Plath, William S. Burroughs, Jesse Bernstein, Wilum Pugmire.
My Inspirations:
Edward Gorey, R. Crumb, Thomas Nast, William Hogarth, J.J. Grandville, John Tenniel, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, Wassily Kandinsky, B. Kliban, School of Bauhaus, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Eustace-Hyacinthe Langlois, Goya, Posada, Joseph Keppler, Félix Nadar, Diane Arbus, the Dadaist, Surrealist and Situationist.
I am inspired by anyone who hand-draws illustrations using real pen-and-ink and hand-cutting and pasting collage without the use of a computer. Old School all the way.
Also, I absolutely despise anything that is digital printing and the very pretentious Giclee. "Giclee" (zhee-clay) is basically digital printing. I am a purist and use only offset printing or screen-printing for all my posters.

My Blog

Madame Talbot’s Newest Framed Curio Exhibits

I just finished this years last batch of Framed Curio Exhibits -Click Here! The list of the curios are as follows:Witches Toad in 18th century box, Cramp Ring on Skeleton Hand, A REAL Human Shrun...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:40:00 PST

Madame Talbot article in Voices from the Vaults

I received a lovely surprise in the mail today ! Nice coincidence is the fact that Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi) grew up only a few block from where I am living right now! Judging by the locale, I would ...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:39:00 PST

Madame Talbot BPAL Ads and Madame Talbot Interview

I received three magazines in the mail the other day. The first two magazines has to do with the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab ads that I illustrated for them. One of the ads has ran thus far in two maga...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:30:00 PST

Madame Talbot & Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

Madame Talbot & Black Phoenix Alchemy LabBlack Phoenix Alchemy Lab hired me to do illustration work for their newest line of their most outstanding prodcuts. Below here are the results:Click on the pi...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:03:00 PST

Madame Talbot Tattoo and Vampira News

Madame Talbot Tattoo and Vampira NewsI received a rather incredible photo in my email box the other day from Jeff Y. who lives in the great state of Tennessee. Here is the photo:Jeff wrote: "I’m...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:58:00 PST

New Curios, Coffins, Website Updated!

The website has been updated :)Here is a list below of the newest stuff that has been added to the website. Enjoy!Framed Curio Exhibits - http://www.madametalbot.com/3exhibits.htmVintage Magic Bat Sku...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:40:00 PST

US Military killing, torturing and abusing dogs in Iraq

When the UNITED STATES MILITARY are killing dogs just for the fun of it , they are nothing but sub-human in my eyes. I just found out that there is not one, but MANY videos of the US Military abusing...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:05:00 PST

Three Madame Talbot News Items

(1) Madame Talbot featured @ 365 HalloweenThe incredibly kind and wonderful 365 Halloween sent us a very nice feature article written about the Madame Talbot website (and me) for 365 Halloween.Below i...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:49:00 PST

Madame Talbot Interview in Soul Riot Magazine

The lovely Stephanie Rickaby did a very nice little blurb on me as well as an interview for Soul Riot Magazine, which is in the U.K.Here is the blurb below: I should point out that I haven't lived in ...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:28:00 PST

Curios and Projects

It seems everyone thinks I must have dropped dead as I haven't posted here or the NEWS section on the website :)I have been a busy gal, I am pleased to say I just completed 20 more framed curio exhibi...
Posted by Madame Talbots Victorian Lowbrow" on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:00 PST