The Absurd West, the Strange East: The Grotesque Paintings of Lui Liu
Lui Liu was born in March 1957 in North China and came to Canada in 1991. Speaking both Chinese and English fluently, Lui Liu possesses superb painterly techniques, his unique language that finds a wide range of audience around the world. His acquisition of techniques started during China’s Cultural Revolution when he was a young boy painting posters on the streets and continued in the most prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Continue reading »
The Amusing Melancholy of Crooked Faces: Paintings by Jeffrey Chong Wang
I’m sure you have photos that show you as if you were in the middle of something, like you were talking or doing something, and then you were suddenly filmed. As a result, the face in the photo freezes halfway through, turning into the funny grimace of a hung-over degenerate. Continue reading »
Master of His Magical Universe: Surreal Paintings of Chris Berens
Chris Berens is a Dutch painter. While he takes inspiration from the quality of light in the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, his themes lie more within the realms of surrealism and visionary art than traditional painting. Although his work is completely hand-painted, his paintings are often assumed to be digital photographic manipulation. He lives in Amsterdam with his wife Esther and their daughters Emma & Juno Leeuwenhart. Continue reading »
Disturbing Dreams: The Superb Bizarre Art by Miles Johnston
Miles Johnston is a British artist who paints bizarre worlds of eerie, distorted dreams. The surrealistic images that Johnston transfers to canvas are felt more by the spinal cord than by the brain – they are intuitively frightening, and for the particularly tender ones they can even trigger a panic attack of trypophobia. Continue reading »
Creepy, Funny, and Very Strange: Eddy Stevens’ Surreal Portraits
Eddy Stevens is a Belgian surrealist painter, the author of a series of portraits of strange people who seem to have emerged from some kind of Black Lodge. Continue reading »
Before-And-After Pics Reveal How Much These Beautiful Images Are Photoshopped To Look Surreal
The photographer known as The_Nicest_Misanthrope has presented a collection of pictures in the fantasy genre. He assures us that such photos are in great demand! Seeing the original photos, we can conclude that they have come a very long way to their fairy-tale finale. Continue reading »
Find Your Totem Animal: The Anthropomorphic Bears of Richard Ahnert
Richard Ahnert (previously featured) is a Toronto artist who paints in the old-fashioned oil style. He also adores bears, he just loves them. He created a series of portraits of anthropomorphic bears. Continue reading »
Sensual and Surreal Fine Art Photography by Oleg Oprisco
Oleg Oprisco is a photographer nased in Kyiv, Ukraine. His pictures speak for themself. Oprisco shoot in medium format film cameras. He uses film as the way to experience the making of every shot, the reason behind every click, its formulation, and its nature. Continue reading »
Looney Tunes without Looney Tunes: Existential, Surreal, and Creepy Backgrounds
Many of us enjoyed watching Looney Tunes when we were kids – they were funny, interesting, and unbelievably groovy. Continue reading »
Transmigration of The Soul: Surreal Paintings by The Welder Wings
Francisco Abril and Nuria Velasco, also known as Welder Wings, asountds the art world with gothic surrealism. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Dreamy Phantom Clouds Descend From The Sky
Barcelona-based artist and illustrator Vorja Sánchez creates dreamy Phantom Clouds Descend from the Sky. Vorja is fascinated by nature. He expresses all his love for it giving life to its elements, fauna, and flora through marvelous illustrations. In this series, each sprawling character is hand-drawn on top of a photograph. Continue reading »
An Artist Confronts Depression with The Help of Photography
According to Dieter Ruistocht: “Four years ago I fell from a building when I was taking pictures. I hurt my leg. Since then I had a lot of surgeries, most with no result. Continue reading »
Nevermind: Dreamy, Mysterious and Surreal Art Works of Paul Rabaud
Paul Rabaud is a French artist who came up with a rather funny and useful challenge for himself. Throughout 2020 (and part of 2021), he drew pictures every day, the references for which were photos of various cozy places around the planet. Continue reading »
Spanish Photographer Creates Mind-Bending Images Will Give You A Different Perspective Of The World
Perspective is a wonderful thing, if you understand the below photographs you have to double-check. These photos will tell us that even simple things are extraordinary, and there’s always beauty in the most mundane things. Continue reading »
The Ugly Glamour Cats by Gregory Jacobsen
Gregory Jacobsen is a Chicago-based artist who draws ugly, surreal cats. Of course, he draws not only them, but also ugly people, ugly everyday objects, and ugly natural phenomena-no matter how strange that may sound. In our opinion, however, he does it best when he draws cats with crazy faces. Continue reading »
Anxiety, Poetry, Death: Gloomy Paintings by Julia Soboleva
Julia Soboleva is a Manchester-based artist who paints frightening paintings in the spirit of David Lynch’s surrealist aesthetic. Soboleva’s paintings are as abstract as possible, yet deeply poetic enigmas about peace, loneliness, and death. Continue reading »
Child of Terror: Creepy Illustrations by Dolce Paganne
Dolce Paganne a.k.a Ceren Aksungur is an Istanbul origin artist based in Antwerp. Artist focus in her surreal drawings on the “sinister” aspect that reside in the details of daily life. Continue reading »
Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Surreal Layered Artworks
Alex Eckman-Lawn is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates stunning collage paintings. He stacks different plans in layers, which creates an effect of depth, and the dark context of the works turns this depth into a mesmerizing tunnel leading to the abyss of the unconscious. Continue reading »
Surreal Urban Installations by Alexander Chinneck
Often described as a magician, Alex Chinneck is above all a perfect director and an excellent technician. Continue reading »
The Eyes of Surrealism: Art by Andreea Dumuta
Andreea Dumuta is an illustrator from Romania who draws whimsical pictures with random images. The pictures look kind of crazy, but they’re pretty colorful – and that’s all we need. Continue reading »
Dreams and Fear: The Epic Illustrations by Alexey Yegorov
Alexey Yegorov is an artist from Yakutsk, who draws epic illustrations with all sorts of soil. His surrealistic paintings have a sense of something mysterious and at the same time native – a perfect December mood. Continue reading »
“Deploy”: The Surreal Dreamscapes of Ahmed Muntasir
Ahmed Muntasir, known as “Ragenfection” is a freelance 3D artist based in St. Catharines, Canada. He predominantly focuses on creating simple nature, surreal, environmental, and sci-fi artworks. Continue reading »
A Russian Photographer Gazes at Our Excessive Consumption
Daria Piskareva’s day job requires her to wake up early. It’s also given her the opportunity to see St Petersburg while it is half-asleep, delicate, and full of unlikely treasures. She splits her time between St Petersburg and Pikkolovo, a small village in the Leningrad oblast. “St Petersburg and I are a total match,” she says. “It’s enigmatic, frivolous, and fluid.” Continue reading »
“We’re Volcanoes Just Waiting to Erupt”: The Superb Collages by Gary Pursell Klatt
Gary Pursell Klatt aka buuutcher is an digital artist based in US. He makes beautiful pop surrealistic collages. Glitches, broken spaces and reflections. Continue reading »
A Mix Between Nature, Fantasy, Beauty and Pain in Beautiful Artworks of Alanna Vanacore
Alanna Vanacore is an American artist born in the small beach town of Ormond Beach, Florida. At a young age, her passion for art flourished while watching her mother paint. Continue reading »
