US Maia Weintraub (L) and Japan's Sera Azuma compete during the Women's Team Foil event Bronze medal match, as part of the FIE Fencing World Championships at the Fair Allianz MI.CO (Milano Convegni) in Milan, on July 29, 2023. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP Photo)

A racegoer flashes her undies in front of the racing crowd during Caulfield Cup Day at Caulfield Racecourse on October 21, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

Artturi Lehkonen #62 of the Colorado Avalanche scores against goalie Jake Allen #34 of the New Jersey Devils in the first period at Ball Arena on February 26, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP Photo)

A surfer in action during sunrise at Tynemouth on the north east coat of England on September 18, 2019. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

Undated handout photo issued by Take a View of the winner of the Adobe Prize of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards, The Daymark, Brixham, Devon, England by Will Milner (lives Oxfordshire). Issue date: Monday October 15, 2018. (Photo by Will Milner/PA Wire Press Association)

A squid in the Red Sea. Underwater photographer Andrey Nekrasov, 42, photographed bigfin reef squid in the pitch black Red Sea putting on an extraordinary light show when the sun goes down. (Photo by Andrey Nekrasov/Medavia/ABACAPress)

Josephine Wall is an English fantasy artist and sculptor. Born in Farnham, Surrey, England in 1947, as a child she was always drawn to color, light, fantasy, and visual storytelling. Wall was influenced by Arthur Rackam illustrative ability, the surrealism of artists Magritte and Dali, along with the Pre-Raphaelites romanticism. She went to Farnham grammar school until her family Poole, Dorset when she was 14. There she studied at Parkstone (Dorset) grammar school, she then went on to study at Bournemouth College. Her first job as an artist was in 1967 at Poole Pottery as a designer and painter.

View of a raccoon dog or Tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides) at the Chapultpec Zoo in Mexico City on August 06, 2015. This species is native from Japan and China. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella/AFP Photo)