Laust Højgaard Creates Grotesque, Post‑apocalyptic Giant Portraits With Dark Humour and Heavy Texture Turning Misfits Into Fragile Gods
Laust Højgaard is a Danish painter (born 1989) whose large acrylic works depict “grotesque and quirky” giant figures—misfits, outsiders and fragile titans—set in a surreal, almost post‑apocalyptic universe. Continue reading »
Spectacular Award-Winning Landscape and Wildlife Photos from the Mobile Photography Awards
1st Place Winner: “Encounter with a Fox” by Krasimir Matarov
The 14th Annual Mobile Photography Awards unveiled breathtaking winners, proving that phone cameras can rival pro gear. Continue reading »
Beautiful Entry Images of The Royal Photographic Society Awards 2025
The RPS Centenary Medal and RPS Honorary Fellowship – Susan Derges HonFRPS
The Royal Photographic Society has announced its 2025 award recipients, and the lineup is nothing short of extraordinary. With these honorees, the RPS Awards spotlight creators who are shaping visual culture through both still and moving imagery. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images from the London Camera Exchange Photographer of the Year 2025
Overall and Portrait Winner: “Sunkissed Boy” Capri McPherson-Noel
The London Camera Exchange Photographer of the Year 2025 has unveiled its winners, and the collection is stunning. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Pre‑apocalyptic Pop‑surreal Paintings With Glossy Humour And Horror Reframing Death And Consumer Culture
Tyler Tilley is a Canadian‑born surreal pop artist currently based in Thailand, known for “cute & weird” oil paintings that mash up pop‑culture icons, horror, kitsch and dark humour. Continue reading »
“What Can We Do To Save Ourselves In This Difficult World?”: The Obsessive Sketchbook‑style Drawings By Isamu Gakiya
Isamu Gakiya aka Guinea Mate is a Japanese illustrator and draughtsman known for dense, surreal pencil and pen drawings that sit between portrait, creature design, and psychological vignette. Continue reading »
Illustrator Paul Blow Creates Simple‑looking but Idea‑rich Artworks, With Restrained Palettes and Clean Lines
Paul Blow is a Scottish‑born, Dorset‑based illustrator known for witty, concept‑driven images that strip ideas down to bold shapes, limited colour and dry humour. Continue reading »
Artist Greg Pettit Creates Transdimensional Still‑life Paintings With Airbrushed Crystals, Portals, and Objects Suspended in Space
Greg Pettit is a contemporary painter based in Austin, Texas, who describes himself as a “transdimensional still‑life painter” and “airbrush wizard,” building meticulous, surreal compositions from abstract sculptural references. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Paintings Where Plants, Animals and Space Collide, With Dreamlike Compositions Exploring Time, Mystery and Quiet Transformation
Scott Mills is a Detroit‑born, Asheville‑based painter and illustrator whose work sits between surrealism and pop‑surrealism, often featuring animals, plants, space motifs and glowing, otherworldly atmospheres. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Dreamy Picture‑book Worlds With Gentle Giants, Turning Everyday Scenes Into Small Pieces of poetry
Paolo Domeniconi is an Italian illustrator based in Spilamberto (Modena), best known for atmospheric, story‑driven images for children’s books that mix realism with quiet magic. Continue reading »
Stunning Nature Winners from the 1839 Photographer of the Year Awards 2025
1st Place: “Blue Hour Guardian” by Alexander Tasho
The 1839 Photographer of the Year Awards just announced the Nature winners, and the shots are unreal. Continue reading »
Beautiful Winning Photos from the 2025 Nature inFocus Photography Awards
Photographer of the Year: “Echoes from the Eastern Ghats” by Rukhiya Mohammed
The Nature inFocus Photography Awards just revealed their 2025 winners, and the shots are unreal. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images from the 2025 Nature Conservancy Oceania Photo Contest
Grand Prize Winner: “Tauhi” by Miesa Grobbelaar, Australia
The 2025 Nature Conservancy Oceania Photo Contest just dropped its winners, and wow—they’re stunning. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Giant Anatomical Murals With Dissected Humans, Animals, and Cartoons, Turning City Walls Into Open‑air Anatomy Lessons
Nychos (previously featured) is an Austrian‑born, Los Angeles–based street artist, illustrator, and muralist known for huge, hyper‑detailed paintings that “dissect” humans, animals, and pop‑culture characters to reveal their skeletons, muscles, and organs in exploding cross‑sections. Continue reading »
Beautiful Photos of the Brutal Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe from 1954
The 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe stood as the flagship of the Bel Air line and represented the final year of Chevrolet’s early post-war design era before the sweeping changes of 1955. Continue reading »
Inspiring Street Winning Photos From The Independent Photographer Awards 2025
1st Prize: “Gazing Cat – China” by Yajun Hu
The Independent Photographer Awards 2025 spotlighted ten powerful street photography winners, each capturing raw, unfiltered energy from everyday life. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images from the Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
Overall Winner: “Sundance” by Asmund Keilen
The Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 has been announced, showcasing breathtaking talent from across 96 countries with a record-breaking 24,781 entries. Continue reading »
Taiwanese Artist Duo Turn Hatsune Miku Into a Fully Working 2-Meter Tall Gaming PC
Taiwanese YouTuber Huang “Jerry” Xiaojie, known for his ambitious creative builds, turned a two-meter-tall Hatsune Miku statue into a fully functional gaming PC. He was responsible for the artistic direction of the project, developing a custom cyberpunk take on Miku for a PC-modding competition in Taipei and overseeing the overall visual concept. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Vivid Canvases Where Fantasy Bleeds Into the Everyday, With Playful Yet Unsettling Compositions Questioning Human‑centric Worldviews
Lee Gihun (Lee Ki‑hoon) is a South Korean painter who blends pop‑surrealism with everyday scenes, creating vivid canvases where animal instincts, masks, and human conventions collide. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Stunning Drawings and Street Art Murals Rooted in Mexican and Indigenous Traditions
Mazatl is a contemporary Mexican artist and printmaker known for powerful relief prints, murals, and installations that center on nature, animals, ancestry, and collective liberation. Continue reading »
Dan May Creates Surreal Gentle‑creature Worlds With Soft, Furry Giants and Wistful Atmospheres at the Edge of Dreams and Memory
Dan May is a modern narrative painter and illustrator from the United States known for surreal, emotionally rich worlds filled with “gentle creatures,” dreamlike landscapes, and quiet, story‑like scenes. Continue reading »
Spectacular Award-Winning Macro Photos from the 2025 Mobile Photography Awards
1st Place Winner: “Assassin Fly” by Linda Repasky
Mobile phones proved their artistic power with these stunning macro shots from the 14th Annual Mobile Photography Awards. Continue reading »
Sebastian Krüger Creates Large‑format Grotesquely Distorted Celebrity Portraits
Sebastian Krüger is a German painter famous for large, hyper‑real yet grotesquely distorted portraits of rock stars and pop‑culture icons, especially The Rolling Stones. His work sits between fine art and caricature: highly detailed acrylic “personality portraits” that exaggerate features while amplifying character, attitude, and theatrical presence. Continue reading »
Ross Muir Creates Reworked Art‑history Icons in Sportswear With a Sharp Street‑culture Twist
Ross Muir is a self‑taught Scottish painter from Alexandria in the Vale of Leven, now based in Glasgow, who reimagines famous artworks with a sharp, street‑culture twist. He started painting at 30 with no formal training, using art to turn his life around, and became widely known after his Van Gogh in an Adidas tracksuit, Square Gogh, went viral. Continue reading »
Artist Gus Fink Creates Superb Creepy‑cute Paintings and Toys
Gus Fink is a self‑taught American multimedia artist and toy designer known for his creepy‑cute pop‑surreal style and original character universes. Continue reading »
