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08 April 2013
Felicia Simion is a photographer from Romania who specializes in people and portraits, fashion, street, landscapes and surreal photography. The nineteen-year old started photography five years ago after she was got her first camera on her fourteenth birthday and has been pursuing her passion since then entirely by her own experience and self-taught skills.
The photographer endeavors to...
05 April 2013
Nikita Nomerz is a graffiti street artist from the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The artist travels around various cities to paint old and ruined structures with facial features and transform them into animated and intriguing spaces. Nomerz studied design in college but went on to follow street art, which he has been practicing for the past eight years. He looks at his artwork as a means of...
25 February 2013
The curtains are down for the 85th Academy Awards. The first golden man went to Christoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained, Amour didn't surprise by winning for Best Foreign Language film, Life of Pi won 4 awards including the award for best director, Daniel Day-Lewis became first actor to win Best Actor award three times, Jennifer Lawrence bagged the award for Best...
25 January 2013
Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian-born artist who moved to London, United Kingdom in 2004. The artist started out with diverse creative practices ranging from textile painting, origami, and collage to more traditional fine art practices. Following an MA in Graphic Communication (2006, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Yulia continued to experiment and explore ways of bringing together all...
07 November 2012
Nicholas Samaras in an award-winning underwater photographer from Thessaloniki, Hellas who studied photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Flora, fauna, fish portraits, divers, and wrecks are some of the most striking subjects in Nicholas’s photography.
“Every different motif or category in underwater photography is for me a separate chapter of the same book. Maybe...
27 October 2012
Carine Brancowitz is an artist from Paris who studied illustration at the School of Art, Ecole Estienne for 5 years. The artist was more interested in Italian Renaissance painting as a child till she discovered the works of Aubrey Beardsley and Andy Warhol that inspired her and slowly lead her to drawing.
Carine’s works have been widely exhibited in France and are defined by their purity and...
22 October 2012
Nooshin Sheekhbahi who is presently a London-based artist was born and brought up in central Iran. She moved to Netherlands at the age of 17 where she studied fine art at Willem De Kooning Academy of Art and Design. The artist’s work can be traced in landscape, abstract, figurative, or Persian miniature painting although Nooshin prefers not to have her artworks narrowed and categorized....
13 October 2012
Pat Perry is an artist from United States who draws and illustrates fantastically in an attempt to emphasize the splendor and sorrows of everyday life. Pat decided to paint, in addition to drawing and illustrating, in order to utilize as many tools as possible and better communicate complicated ideas through his artwork. He studied painting at Kendall College of Art and Design, but mainly learned...
16 May 2012
Sarah Joncas, an artist from Toronto, Canada, was born in 1986 and graduated with a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design. Sarah has been displaying and selling her art since she was seventeen and remarkably plays around with themes revolving around female archetypes like the damsel in distress and femme fatale in her art. Fish, hearts, cityscapes and most obviously, solo female figures are...
16 December 2011
Scott Radke is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio who specializes in sculptural works involving animal and human hybrids. Scott’s creatures often come across as grotesque, sad, and resigned beings that evoke in their viewers a sense of sinking despair and gloom. However, one is drawn to these creatures for their apparent innocence and understated desperation.
The artist takes his inspiration from...
02 December 2011
Yosuke Ueno is a pop-surrealist artist from Tokyo, Japan. Giant white swans, colorfully dreamy landscapes, and wandering doe-eyed females are only some of the themes in Yosuke's bright and symbolically rich paintings.
“I’ve been creating many characters. That is what our Japanese Gods have been good at since the ancient times. Japanese are people who respect and adore all the things around...
11 October 2011
Marius Coetzee is a professional safari guide and photographic expedition leader travelling the world in pursuit of the perfect image. The photographer considers himself fortunate to be able to see some of the most incredible and fascinating animal behavior while pursuing his love for nature, photography, and wildlife. Coetzee’s photographs have appeared on billboards, magazine, calendars, and...
21 July 2011
Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her characteristic works that are painted directly onto wood panels. Kawasaki studied fine art painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City, but left after two years without completing her degree. The emphasis that New York art standards put on conceptual art was at odds with her painting ideologies and was the reason for her leaving....
08 July 2011
Jeremiah Ketner is a Chicago-based artist who paints alluring and dreamy young women within exquisitely colored environments. The artist holds a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA from Southern Illinois University.
Jeremiah is inspired by Japanese pop art and his paintings often depict playful, sprite-like characters that add to the charm and keep things from getting too...
18 June 2011
Ben Heine is an illustrator and photographer from Brussels, Belgium. The artist has studied painting and sculpture, and is self-taught in the discipline of drawing, which is the style of expression Ben chooses to express himself most through.
Love, happiness, friendship, nature, and illusion, are some motifs that can be observed in Ben’s art. The artist’s most notable work is his Pencil vs Camera...
06 May 2011
Canadian artist Mandy Tsung was born in Banff, Alberta in 1984. She attended the Alberta College of Art and Design and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006. Her paintings center around ravishing, pop-culture inspired female subjects, and are generally composed on wooden panels.
“The process of painting is very inspiring for me as is the complexity of the human face and how it portrays...
04 May 2011
Alison Jardine is an artist from Dallas, TX, USA. The artist’s work deals with light and nature, and psychological as well as physical wilderness. Lines representing the concept of the photon moving through time and space, and linear representations of tree branches are also featured in her work. These motifs strive to capture the beauty of our natural world, and give the viewer a sense of...
19 April 2011
Erik Johansson is a photo manipulation and retouch artist from Sweden. The artist employs a special technique to digitally modify photographs that he takes himself, and has attracted wide popularity for his unique and innovative photographic work. These photos have been successful in producing an awe-inspiring reaction from people who have seen his work worldwide.
The photographer takes about a...
04 March 2011
Josh Keyes is an artist from Portland, Oregon. Josh works with paintings and installation art that are often seen with a mixture of natural wildlife references and manmade objects and environments. His trademark style incorporates the use of three-dimensional cross sections, similar to scientific illustrations that are found in textbooks. These scientific illustrations that are blended with...
28 February 2011
David Walker is an artist from London, UK who paints portraits of unknown and inspiring women, using only spray paints. His unique style that stands imprinted on walls across the streets of London has been noticed internationally, inviting the artist to showcase his art in galleries across the world.
The artist’s rich and multi-colored works give out a sense of beauty in defiance. “I think the...
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