Artist Kjell Daniel Francisco Drags Viewers To The Edge Of The Abyss With His Unconscious Encounter Series
Kjell Daniel Francisco is a dark‑surreal painter and digital artist whose work dives into desolate atmospheres, faceless figures and abyssal architectures. Continue reading »
Anna Mond Twists Everyday Archetypes Into Mask‑like Creatures Whose Expressions Refuse To Reveal Whether They’re Joking, Judging, Or Just Lonely
Anna Mond is a German artist best known for her ongoing series Fantastical Beings – oil and acrylic portraits of cigarette‑smoking, beer‑drinking, priest‑cosmonauts, cowboys and other strange humanoids who stare back at the viewer with unsettling, magnetic eyes. Continue reading »
Illustrator Creates Pop‑surreal Paintings Turning Everyday Life Into Bright, Storybook‑style Adventures
Nathan Durfee is an American painter and illustrator based in Charleston, South Carolina, known for whimsical pop‑surreal narratives packed with quirky animals, kids, and oddball objects in bright, storybook colour. Continue reading »
Illustrator Creates The “Dead Cat” Painting Series With Grim Reaper And Cat Sidekick Wandering Through A Whimsical, Soft‑spoken Afterlife
Brandon James Scott is an award‑winning Canadian artist who splits his time between animation and picture‑book illustration, best known as the creator of the Netflix preschool series “Justin Time.” 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 »
Swedish Illustrator Einar Nerman Creates Elegant Art‑Deco Portraits With Fluid Lines And Theatrical Silhouettes Defining The Look Of Early 20th‑century Illustration
Einar Nerman (1888–1983) was a Swedish artist, illustrator, caricaturist and designer celebrated for his elegant, highly stylized Art Deco drawings of people and performers. 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 »
Street Artist Creates Superb Urban‑surreal Murals With Nature, Ruins and Machinery Tangled Together in Poetic, Dreamlike Scenes
Maye (Victorien Liria) is a French painter and street artist from Sète known for tall, elastic characters and highly detailed surreal scenes that stretch between mural and canvas work. Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
“Cutting Deeper”: The Self-Dissecting Worlds of Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Paper Collages
Alex Eckman-Lawn is a Philadelphia-born artist and illustrator celebrated for his intricate, multi-layered paper collages and dynamic illustration work. Continue reading »
Nostalgia and Nonconformity: Emotional Ink Sketches and Paintings of F Aartt
F Aartt is a French multidisciplinary artist, born in 1989, celebrated for dynamic ink pen drawings and abstract compositions that blend painting, illustration, and graphic design. Continue reading »
“The Great Drying of the Laundr”: The Mythical Worlds In Paintings of Taegan Treichel
Taegan Treichel is a Danish visual artist and storyteller whose enchanting paintings merge myth, memory, and humor. He began painting at 22, soon earning commissions and becoming an in-house artist at the Imagineimagine Foundation in Holland in 2017. Continue reading »
“When Rembrandt Meets Pollock”: Colorful Classical-Meets-Contemporary Portraits of Cesar Santos
Cesar Santos is a Cuban-American artist and portrait painter best known for his “Syncretism” series, which merges different artistic styles into a single, balanced composition. Continue reading »
Smilin’ Jack, an Enormous Jack-o’-Lantern Painted on the Side of an 80,000-Barrel Storage Tank Each Year Since 1952
“Smilin’ Jack” is a massive jack-o’-lantern face painted on a squat, ellipsoidal storage tank at the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, originally built by Union Oil in 1952. 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 »
Spectacular Color Category Winners from the 2025 AAP Magazine Awards
1st Place Winner: “Pastoral Peoples and Practices” by Trevor Cole, Ireland
The 2025 AAP Magazine Awards #51: Colors by All About Photo showcases global photographers who transform color into emotion, turning light into lyrical storytelling. Continue reading »
“Enchanted Whispers in the Moonlit Grove”: Folklore-Inspired Artworks of Fae and Forgotten Magic by C.M. Duffy
C.M. Duffy is a Seattle-based illustrator and concept artist known for her ethereal, folkloric illustrations that blend mythology, nature, and subtle horror elements into delicate, otherworldly scenes. Continue reading »
“What If Frogs Could Talk?”: The Whimsical Paintings of Samuel Popovich
Samuel Popovich is an oil painter from Colorado, USA, celebrated for his playful, whimsical art featuring frogs, quirky animals, and imaginative scenes. Continue reading »
“A Fever for You”: the Superb Sureal and Melancholic Paintings by Zhiyong Jing
Zhiyong Jing is a painter living and working in Beijing, China, well known for his surreal dreamlike artworks that explore themes of hope, isolation, and absurdity. Continue reading »
“Soul of Emancipation”: Beautiful Watercolour and Gouache Painting Artworks of Serena Malyon
Serena Malyon is a Canadian freelance illustrator known for her whimsical and fantastical art created with watercolor, acryla gouache, and Photoshop. Continue reading »
The Fabulous Book, Magazine and Comic Illustrations and Paintings of Chrigel Farner
Chrigel Farner is a Swiss-born artist, illustrator, comic creator, and painter currently living in Berlin. Continue reading »
