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 »
“Aspect of Summer”: Amazing Painting Artworks of Martin Wittfooth
Martin Wittfooth, a Canadian painter born in Finland, creates evocative works where animals become symbolic messengers of ecological change—volcanic horses, glacial wolves, and glowing jellyfish populate his surreal landscapes. Continue reading »
“Swaying Vessels”: Amazing Sculptures by Muyan Gao Made of Paper Mâché as an Eco-Friendly Material
Muyan Gao (高木妍) is a visual artist born in 1991 in Shanxi, China. She is known for her innovative work with paper pulp and paper-mâché, creating sculptures that explore the relationship between form, functionality, and nature. Continue reading »
“Royal Eyes”: Beautiful Painting Artworks of Maria Mazuchova
Maria Mazuchova is a self-taught visual artist best known for her project Royal Eyes. She began her creative journey with photography in 2014, later expanding into photo manipulation and painting, inspired by the surreal visions of Salvador Dalí. Continue reading »
Brazilian Artist Creates Drawings That Perfectly Visualize People’s Emotions
Some people believe that in order to make an incredible drawing or painting that will catch everyone’s eye, you need to have special materials and all kinds of different painting tools. Well, the good news is that in practice, this is actually not true. And one artist is here to prove that! Continue reading »
Cynicism in Color: The Playful Artworks of Yuki Shibue
Yuki Shibue was born in Aichi, Japan. After starting a music career as a teenager, she transitioned to painting in 2020. She has developed his own unique painting technique using an airbrush. Her work explores cynicism and humor. Continue reading »
Vibrant and Bold Illustrations by Mary Maka
Mary Maka, a lion-inspired artist, has returned with her signature surreal worlds full of bold colors, dreamy gradients, and whimsical characters. Continue reading »
Blankets, Books, and the Gaze: The Intimate Paintings of Prudence Flint
Melbourne artist Prudence Flint has spent over thirty years crafting evocative portraits of women, using her distinctive oil-on-linen technique. Continue reading »
Spectacular Wildlife Winning Photos from the Artist Gallery Awards 2025
1st Place: “The Turtle Throne” by Louis Richter, Australia
The Artist Gallery Awards 2025 reveal a stunning selection of 25 wildlife photographs that capture the majesty and vulnerability of nature. Continue reading »
