Artist Duo Paint Fairy‑tale‑like Scenes Suspended Between Sweetness And Menace, As If A Bedtime Story Had Started To Go Wrong
Aleksey and Anton Tvorogov (Tvorogov Brothers) are Moscow‑born twin artists (both 1988) who work as a duo, known for painterly, slightly uncanny scenes that feel like fragments of a fairy tale caught between childhood and adulthood. 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 »
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 »
Caroline Gaudreault Creates Enigmatic Oil Paintings With Anthropomorphic Cats, Birds, And Girls Draped In Rococo Detail And Quiet Symbolism
Caroline Gaudreault is a Canadian magical‑realist figurative painter from Alma, Québec, known for strange, classical‑looking portraits of animals and humans that sit somewhere between fairy tale, allegory, and fine art. 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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
Ejiwa Ebenebe Creates Lush, Ornamented Fantasy Portraits and Vibrant Digital Paintings With African Vibe
Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe is a queer Nigerian-Canadian illustrator and fine artist currently based in British Columbia, Canada. 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 »
The Everyday Magic and Whimsical Art of Angela Smyth
Angela Smyth is a self-taught artist based in West Yorkshire, UK, known for her distinctive, quirky style that blends illustration, wit, and poignancy. Continue reading »
“Tiny Mice, Big Stories”: Humor and Surreal Whimsy in the Paintings of Stuart Dunkel
Stuart Dunkel is an American painter and classical musician born in 1952, known for his detailed oil paintings that often feature whimsical mice in playful and surreal scenes. Continue reading »
“Farewell Waltz”: The Emotional Illustrations of SilllDA
SilllDA is a South Korean visual artist whose vibrant, emotionally charged digital illustrations and paintings have gained global attention. Continue reading »
The Young Like It Hot: The Superb Retro Inspired Illustrations and Paintings of Robert Sammelin
Robert Sammelinis a self taught art director, concept artist, illustrator, graphic designer and comics creator. 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 »
“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 »
“Surfboards and Skeletons”: The Beachside Whimsy and Existential Humor in Illustrations of Kentaro Yoshida
Kentaro Yoshida is a Japanese-born illustrator and visual artist based in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, celebrated for his quirky, pastel-toned designs that fuse surf culture, humor, and a distinctly Japanese sensibility. 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 »
“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 »
Stunning Textural Acrylic Paintings with Vintage Aesthetics by Jason Limon
Jason Limon is a painter and sculptor from San Antonio, Texas, USA, who is internationally renowned for his surreal acrylic paintings and sculptures featuring skeletons, skulls, and whimsical objects. 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 »
“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 »
