Incredible Scanner Glitch Collages Exploring Emotional Fragmentation and Digital Distortions by Alg Eventual
Alg Eventual is an Ohio‑based audio/visual new media artist creating glitch art, digital collages and abstract mixed media works with a reference to the roots of the early 2000s. His works feature scanner experiments, layered textures and titles like “Exterior,” “Interwind,” “Articulation,” “Overthinking” and “Everything leads back to you,” blending digital manipulation with tactile, fragmented aesthetics. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images from The Society of Photographers’ Photographer of the Year 2025
Photographer of the Year 2025 – 1st Place by Therese Asplund
Photography reached new heights in 2025, with the Society of Photographers unveiling an extraordinary lineup of Photographer of the Year winners. Continue reading »
Artist Randy Ortiz Turns Oil Paint And Graphite Into Dark, Symbol‑packed Visions
Randy Ortiz is a Winnipeg‑based Canadian artist and illustrator known for dark, symbolically rich oil paintings and meticulously rendered graphite/charcoal drawings that often explore anxiety, suffering, faith and the uncanny. Continue reading »
Heavy Charcoal Shading And Dramatic Light Make Daniel Álvarez’s Drawings and Illustrations Feel Pulled From Dreams
Daniel Álvarez is an illustrator from Mexico City; he creates contemporary drawings that explore how humanity moves, thinks and behaves by reflex, often in stark black‑and‑white charcoal, graphite and digital media. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Dreamy Guardians, Monkeys And Plant‑spirits In Soft Acrylics, Turning Canvases Into Little Safe Zones For Anxious Hearts
Ella May is a contemporary artist and illustrator who builds soft, surreal worlds with big‑eyed girls, monkeys, spirits and plants painted in acrylic, oil pastel and mixed media on canvas. Continue reading »
Filipino Visionary Artist Marc Salamat Creates Large, Psychedelic Oil Paintings Exploring Purpose, Awakening, And The Divine Love Of Life
Marc Salamat is a Filipino visionary painter and digital artist from Hagonoy, Bulacan, whose work fuses figurative realism with psychedelic, spiritual and cosmic symbolism. Continue reading »
Gérard DuBois Creates Thought‑provoking Images With Slight Surreal Twists Asking Viewers To Reread The Story Through The Picture
Gérard DuBois is a French‑born, Canada‑based visual artist and illustrator known for quietly surreal, narrative images that blend classical painting sensibility with contemporary editorial bite. Continue reading »
South Korean Artist Creates Gentle, Surreal Heartwarming Paintings Sharing Small, Wordless Moments At The Edge Of Loneliness And Comfort
Jeon Pil‑hwa (Pil Hwa) is a contemporary South Korean artist and illustrator known for quiet, surreal digital paintings where humans and animals—especially cats—share small, intimate moments in soft, muted worlds. Continue reading »
Oil Painter Creates Contemporary Gothic Portraits With Classical Technique And Lowbrow Attitude, Recasting Fairy‑tale Femininity As Sharp, Haunted, And Fully Present
risten Margiotta is a Delaware‑based contemporary oil painter, illustrator, and art instructor whose work blends classical portrait skills with lowbrow / pop‑surreal influences Continue reading »
German Artist Eckart Hahn Creates Ambiguous Paintings and Evocative Visual Dramas
Eckart Hahn, born in 1971 in Germany, is a contemporary painter recognized for creating atmospheric and tension-filled narrative scenes. Continue reading »
Provocative Feminine Artworks and Vibrant Streetart Murals by Crisselle
Karina Vazquez (aka Crisselle) is a Long Beach-based, self-taught artist known for her dreamlike, poetic style and evocative exploration of femininity and personal identity. Continue reading »
Pop Culture Redux: Vivid and Humorous Illustrations of Niclas M.
Niclas M., (aka Monkeymouthart), is a Guatemalan-born artist specializing in kitsch and lowbrow art, illustration, and graphic design. Continue reading »
Paper, Flesh, and Urban Myth: Dissecting the Darkly Surreal Collages of John Vochatzer
John Vochatzer, (aka Calamity Fair), is a San Francisco-based collage and mixed-media artist whose surreal, corporeal imagery explores the contradictions of contemporary life. Continue reading »
“What Wasn’t Said”: Stunning Surreal Paintings by Nikolina Petolas
Nikolina Petolas is a Croatian visual artist and photographer known for dreamlike, surreal-inspired imagery that blends photography, collage, and digital techniques. Continue reading »
“The Art of Breathing Life into Lace”: Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough
Meredith Woolnough is an internationally acclaimed Australian visual artist from Newcastle, celebrated for her stunning sculptural embroideries that capture the delicate beauty of nature through intricate thread work. Continue reading »
“Disney Dreams Gone Dark”: Stunning Pop Culture Illustrations and Comics of Brecht Vandenbroucke
Brecht Vandenbroucke is a Belgian illustrator, painter, comic author, and filmmaker born in 1986 in Veurne, who studied illustration at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels and now lives in Antwerp, where his satirical works critique modern society through vibrant, pop culture-infused visuals. Continue reading »
Where Celtic Folklore Meets Surrealist Science In Watercolor Artworks of Nenad Pantic
Nenad Pantic is a Serbian-born, Ireland-based artist and software engineer celebrated for his hand-crafted fantasy and surrealist illustrations that merge Celtic mythology, European folklore, and philosophical introspection. Continue reading »
“Demons in the Details”: Macabre Masterpieces and Escher-Inspired Ink Illusions by Matt Reid
Matt Reid is a Sydney-based Australian illustrator and full-time artist renowned for his striking black-and-white drawings that delve into the macabre, featuring intricate depictions of skulls, demons, and monsters inspired by Gothic fiction and his childhood love for dark doodles. Continue reading »
“When Creatures Roam the Suburbs”: Exploring the Haunting Mixed-Media Artworks of Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer, and filmmaker from Fremantle, Western Australia, best known for his award-winning graphic novel The Arrival and the Academy Award–winning animated short adaptation of his picture book The Lost Thing. Continue reading »
“Beneath the Desert Moon”: The Dark, Surreal and Fantasy Artworks of Xavier Ortiz
Xavier Ortiz (aka BUILTFROMSKETCH) is a Sacramento-based watercolor illustrator and stay-at-home father who specializes in dark fantasy themes, drawing from his background in animation and storyboarding at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco to craft intricate, atmospheric scenes. Continue reading »
Adorable And Heartwarming Illustrations By Martina Brancato To Brighten Your Day
Martina Brancato, a talented illustrator hailing from Sicily, Italy, infuses her creations with a vibrant sense of warmth, color, and enchantment. Drawing deeply from the rich landscapes and spirited culture of her native island, she conjures whimsical characters and gentle narratives that dance between the playful and the dreamlike. Continue reading »
“A Little Lonely Cat in a Big Empty World”: Dreamlike Surrealist Paintings of Mitch
Mitch is a German multi-media artist born in Berlin in 1985. He is best known for his surreal feline figures, particularly black cats, which he places in a variety of imaginative and often minimalist settings. Continue reading »
Exploring Ukraine’s Heritage Through the Symbolism of the “Hustynochkaa” Headscarf Series by Lyubov Bessarab
Lyubov Bessarab is a Ukrainian artist and designer whose work explores contrasts—between reality and imagination, presence and absence, and the seen and unseen. Continue reading »
“Wild at Heart”: Beautiful Digital Collages by Annita Stamati
Annita Stamati is a contemporary collage artist from Thessaloniki, Greece. She creates distinctive analog compositions using cut and paste techniques, drawing inspiration from nature and urban life. Continue reading »
Stunning Digital Collages by Chiara Santoro
Chiara Santoro is an Italian digital artist and medical librarian. She also describes herself as a digital storyteller and geek. Her profile states: “There are always two artists: the one who creates and the one who perceives,” and she accepts commissions. Continue reading »
