This Artist Paints Surreal Female Portraits Where Tropical Leaves, Veils And Shadows Slip Across Faces, Turning Identity Into A Lush, Private Jungle
Marie‑Eve Proteau is a Canadian painter based in Austria, known for dreamy, surreal portraits of women whose faces and bodies are partially hidden by plants, hair, veils or patterned shadows. Continue reading »
Meet Jean-Jacques Grandville, The Master of Anthropomorphic Satire
Jean‑Jacques Grandville (born Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, 1803–1847) was a major French illustrator and caricaturist whose intricate, often fantastical drawings left a strong mark on the Romantic era. Continue reading »
Painter Turns Vintage Cars, Empty Highways And Neon Motels Into Lonesome Road‑trip Scenes That Feel Like Paused Frames From A Lost Movie
Greg Mount is a painter and visual storyteller based in Melbourne, Australia, whose work mixes mid‑century nostalgia, road‑movie solitude and a touch of surreal humour. 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 »
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 »
Spectacular Winning Photos from the LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2025
Series Winner – 1st Place: “Buzkashi” by Todd Antony
Black and white photography carries a raw, emotional power that color simply can’t replicate, and the 2025 LensCulture Awards prove it once again. Continue reading »
Italian Surrealist Creates Toads, Beasts And Insects In Ink With Every Line Crawling, Curling And Conspiring Against The Blank Page
Gaia Perissutti is an Italian surreal illustrator who calls herself the “Surrealist Great Archduchess of Tiny Details,” known for dense black‑and‑white ink drawings filled with eyes, tentacles, teeth, bugs and strange hybrid creatures. Continue reading »
Illustrator Creates Cozy Grunling Worlds With Anthropomorphic Fruits And Vegetables Turning Everyday Nature Into Pastel Storylands
Johanna Forster is a German illustrator and character designer best known for her “Grunlings” (Grünlinge) – a cast of cute, anthropomorphic fruits, vegetables and plant spirits that live in a bright, cozy fantasy world. Continue reading »
Japanese Illustrator Creates Dreamy Digital Landscapes With Tiny Figures, Moons And Houses Suspended In Quiet, Poetic Night Skies
Akira Kusaka (日下 明) is a contemporary Japanese illustrator and graphic designer based in Osaka, known for dreamy, poetic scenes where small human figures, animals and architecture float in vast, quiet spaces. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025
Competition winner: “Mesmerizing spider threads” by Dr Martín J. Ramírez. Sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff
he 2025 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition brought science to life through breathtaking images from around the world. Scientists submitted photos across categories like Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science, Ecology, and Microimaging, resulting in stunning visual storytelling. 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 »
Spectacular Street Photography Winners from the 2025 AAP Magazine Awards
First Place Winner: “MahaKumbh: World’s Largest Gathering” by Savadmon Avalachamveettil, Ireland
Street photography carries a unique magic, raw and unfiltered, that captures real life in its purest form. 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 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 Vivid Canvases Where Fantasy Bleeds Into the Everyday, With Playful Yet Unsettling Compositions Questioning Human‑centric Worldviews
Lee Gihun (Lee Ki‑hoon) is a South Korean painter who blends pop‑surrealism with everyday scenes, creating vivid canvases where animal instincts, masks, and human conventions collide. Continue reading »
Spectacular Award-Winning Photos from the Siena Drone Photo Awards 2025
Photo of the year: “The Lone Horseman” by Dennis Schmelz
The Siena Drone Photo Awards 2025 elevate the magic of photography with breathtaking aerial visions. 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 »
Stunning Photographs Capture Daily Life of Teenage Demi Moore in Los Angeles, California, 1977
Demi Moore, born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico, was raised by her mother and stepfather after her biological father left before her birth. Continue reading »
Inspiring Minimalist Award-Winning Photos from the Artist Gallery Awards 2025
1st Place Winner: “Feet” by Luca Menotti, Italy
The Artist Gallery Awards 2025 showcased the power of simplicity with their stunning minimalist photography category. Continue reading »
Old Taiwanse Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry
A married couple, Hsu Sho-Er and Chang Wan-Ji, ran a laundry in Taichung, Taiwan, where many unclaimed clothes were left for years. 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 »
“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 »
Beyond the Black: Emotional Macabre Storytelling at the Edge of Fantasy by Sarah Breen
Sarah Breen is a Las Vegas-based artist specializing in pen and ink drawings with a distinctly dark, surreal edge. Continue reading »
Classic Tattoo Art Collides with Pop Culture in Stunning Illustrations of Dave Quiggle
Dave Quiggle is an American artist, illustrator, and tattooer known for his unique blend of midcentury-inspired flash art infused with modern graphic sensibilities. Raised in a small town, Quiggle was influenced by monster magazines, cartoons, and punk music, which shaped his creative vision and distinctive style that combines whimsy with intellectual depth. Continue reading »
