The Superb Colorful Abstractions That Bridge Tattoo Culture And Fine Art by Graham Yarrington
Graham Yarrington is a Rochester, NY‑based tattoo artist at Pyramid Arts Tattoo and illustrator known for psychedelic, colorful, psychedelic geometric paintings and posters. Continue reading »
Tape, Paper Towels, Pool Balls: Artist Turns Everyday Symbols Into Meditations On Restriction, Fragility And Self‑discovery
Andy Cash DeLapp is a transgender oil painter based in Seattle, WA, who earned his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2023 and has quickly gained recognition as a Neddy Award finalist and SAM Emerging Arts Leader. Continue reading »
Matt Midgley Paints Razor‑sharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Hand‑mad
Matt Midgley is a Seattle‑based visual artist and curator known for precise, hard‑edge geometric acrylic paintings that almost read like digital prints, often built from modular color blocks and gradients. Continue reading »
A Lone Figure, A Huge Horizon: This Artist Uses Characters For Scale And Nostalgia Like A Film Still
Jocelin Carmes is a French visual artist and concept artist born in 1995, known for vibrant digital paintings blending fantasy environments, character portraits, animals and fan art using Photoshop with vivid colors, dynamic lighting and storytelling. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Smoky Lounges And Quiet Strangers, Letting Half‑finished Details Turn Viewers Into Co‑authors Of The Scene
Michael Carson is an American figurative painter known for atmospheric oil paintings of solitary or small groups of people in bars, lounges and urban interiors, rendered with muted palettes, strong design and a mix of realism and stylization. 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 »
World Of Halos, Wings And Symbolic Props and Emotional Afterglow in Acrylic Portraits of Willow Benjamin
Willow Benjamin is a 1999‑born contemporary pop‑surrealism artist who specializes in acrylic painting, creating vibrant, occasionally eerie portraits and fantasy scenes that “make acrylic paintings glow.” Continue reading »
Artist Paints Chain‑smoking Cats And Lanky Whimsies In Gouache, Capturing The Surreal Stretch Between Everyday And Emotional Warp
Smallwhitemonster is a Manchester‑based artist known for surreal gouache and acrylic paintings featuring lanky, chain‑smoking animals, elongated figures and dreamlike scenes that explore the “quiet tension between the ordinary and the surreal.” Continue reading »
An Artist Draws Mythic Chimeras And Warrior Specters In Flat, Beardsley‑esque Illustrations That Bridge Antiquity And Modern Surrealism
Orphné Achéron is a French painter and illustrator inspired by antiquity, mythology and medieval times, drawing her name from the Greek river Acheron (underworld river) and Orphne (water nymph), who together fathered Ascalaphus. Continue reading »
Mariusz Lewandowski Painted Apocalyptic Monoliths And Lone Witnesses To Cosmic Horror, Turning Personal Nightmares Into Surreal Oil Masterpieces
Mariusz Lewandowski was a Polish surrealist painter (1960–2022) from Działdowo who lived and worked in Górowo Iławeckie, Warmia and Masuria, creating oil‑on‑canvas works dominated by mystical, apocalyptic and otherworldly motifs. Continue reading »
An Artist Paints Aristocratic Frogs, Masked Lemurs And Weird Florals In Lush Gouache, Turning Classical Portraiture Into Surreal Dreams
Bill Mayer is an American illustrator and painter based in Decatur, Georgia, celebrated for exquisitely rendered gouache paintings that fuse classical still life and portrait traditions with strange, whimsical and sometimes dark fantasy characters—royal frogs, masked lemurs, birds in suits, flowers with human faces and more. 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 »
Italian Artist Maps Chaotic Harbours, City Squares And Inner Storms In Copic‑and‑Ink Drawings
Thomas Pondrelli is an Italian illustrator and painter based in Bologna whose work ranges from densely detailed ink‑and‑Copic drawings to bold, simplified acrylic paintings and children’s books. Continue reading »
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 »
