Jasmine Becket-Griffith was born June 4, 1979, and began her professional art career in 1997 after winning her school's spelling bee in eighth grade and using the prize money to buy art supplies, teaching herself to paint. She grew seriously interested in fantasy art around age thirteen, drawing on fantasy novels and tabletop games, and launched her first professional artist website at seventeen. Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel, she developed a recognizable style built around large eyed maidens set among fairy tale, gothic and mythological imagery, released commercially under her Strangeling brand.
Her work has been licensed onto merchandise sold through retailers including Hot Topic and the Bradford Group, and since 2006 she has produced freelance co-branded artwork for the Walt Disney Company as an independent contractor, with physical galleries carrying her work at Disney Springs in Walt Disney World, the WonderGround Gallery at Disneyland, the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles and the Dark Art Emporium in Long Beach. She regularly exhibits at conventions including LA Comic Con, CatCon and GenCon, and works from studios in Long Beach and Julian, California.
With tarot reader Jay R. Rivera she co-created the Beautiful Creatures Tarot, pairing her paintings of mythical creatures with his card interpretations, and she separately co-created the Halloween Forever Oracle with author Tess Whitehurst. Her output spans traditional gallery painting, licensed collectibles and divination decks, making her one of the more commercially prolific working fantasy illustrators to have crossed into the tarot and oracle market.