Children are terrifying beasts - miniature humans, engorged of head and evil-eyed. Mark Ryden's obsessive oils reveal these pastel-pink creatures, pulled by bunnies, bearing whips, and painted up pretty in swastika suits. "When I was a child," he admits, "my teachers would wonder why my drawings of dogs would have their intestines showing." Asked to describe something that was 'pure Ryden', he once said, "A taxidermied monkey, in a dusty glass case at a small museum on the outskirts of some foreign town that you could swear just moved its eyes."

In his work, there are toys, Teletubbies, mythical monsters, religious icons, skulls, snakes, medical implements and slabs of meat.