Tricia Fountaine

About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation event designer
Location Santa Barbara, California, United States
Introduction I love to emerse myself in the land of Fae! I love to make fantastical things like wings and costumes and faerie houses. I drink a ton of tea so consiquently love china and tea sets, spend way too much in thrift stores and swap meets but subsiquently have a wonderful collection of goodies!
Interests My husband and our cats, animal welfare in general, faeries, fantasy, forests, reading, creating fantastical things, creating visual stories, learning to play the guitar and to sew (properly!), caring for the ranch we live on and life in general! I do feel like this profile should absolutely include favorite artists along with books and music don't you? So here goes... Titian, Sargent, Giotto, Da Vinci, Sr. Edward Burn Jones, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Susan Seddon Boulet, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Kinuko Craft
Favorite Movies The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Harry Potter series, Chocolate, The Milagro Beanfield War, A Fairy Tale, Stardust, An Everlasting Piece, Practical Magic, Out of Africa (untill it gets sad!), An Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountaine, Peter Pan, both Disney and the modern version, most of the Bond movies, all of the Indianna Jones movies, Sound of Music, To Catch a Thief, Ever After, Enchanted April
Favorite Music Loreena McKennitt, Mozart, anything from Putumayo, Puccini, Buena Vista Social Club, Andrea Bocelli, Fleetwood Mac, Faun, Qntall, Irish folk songs (only the happy ones...), Spanish and Flainco guitar.
Favorite Books The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Harry Potter series, all Elizabeth Peters books, most of Barbara Michaels, The Wood Wife (Terri Windling), most of Charles de Lint's books, all of Dorothy Gilman, Practical Magic, Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, all of Lynn Andrews books, The Secret Life of Bees, all of Paul Coelho's books, Something Rich and Strnge (Patricia Mckillip), most of Adriana Trigiani's books, Sisters of the Dream (Mary Sojourner), Divine Secretes of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Nick Bantock's series, The Way of Wyrd by Brian Bates, all of Alison weir's books, all of Tony Hillerman's books, all of Karen Harper's books, all of Lyn Hamilton's books... and I could keep going!