About the Artist

Real Musgrave has always loved Dragons! He began to draw dragons at a very early age and all through University he drew and sculpted them but these were “life size” dragons - some up to 50 feet long.

As a struggling young artist straight out of University, Real and his wife Muff took off hitchhiking around Europe and as they absorbed the sights and sounds of Rome, Paris, Vienna and the other capitols, Real began drawing his beloved dragons in a small sketch pad just small enough to fit into the pocket of his English tweed jackets. And so it was that Pocket Dragons were born!

When they returned from Europe, Real and Muff started a small gallery and commercial art studio from which they sold his fantasy drawings. Featuring fairies, wizards, dragons and castles in an enchanted medieval world these exquisite drawings are the spiritual home of Pocket Dragons. Real's drawings, etchings and paintings have been widely shown in museums and art galleries and for 14 years he served as the official artist in residence of the Texas Renaissance festival.

In 1989 Real began sculpting the Pocket Dragons that we know today. These wonderful, whimsical, funny, mischievous little creatures are a combination of Real's early 'sketch pad' Pocket Dragons and the characteristics of Flower and the other dogs and cats that have lived and still live with Real and Muff, who as well as being his wife is his creative muse and business partner. Real's very own, individual personality, a gentle, quirky warmth and humour, also finds its expression in the special magic of the little green creatures that he creates in his studio at Brae Edenhall.

Situated in North Texas in a serene valley covered with oak woods, Brae Edenhall is a four story contemporary “castle” which is home to Real and Muff, their beloved pets and their family of Pocket Dragons. Here they all live together in an enchanted world where kindness, warmth, compassion and humour abound.

When Real talks about Pocket Dragons it is as if they have an independent existence which is separate from him and it easy to forget that he has created them; sometimes it seems as if he himself has forgotten! It is this - the life that he breathes into them - that makes them so utterly unique and special.