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“Ruben Ireland is an illustrator of strength. There is strength in the jaw-lines of his portraits, in the graphic execution of the finished product and the colours which jump out from the work. In-between the red-raw hands stroking outwards of ‘Paint or Die Trying’ and the half-man/half-ram creations of ‘Amalgamations’ sits a world of dark fairy-tales”
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"A creative director at a busy digital agency in Brazil by day, Butcher Billy was just a kid when he first realized he was no ordinary sack of flesh. Back then, he was already unstoppable with just a pack of crayons in his tiny hands - no walls were safe.”
“Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss. ”
“Berlin based artist Anne Bengard explores the relationship between people, expression and imagination within her work. With an open minded, free and playful approach, she aims to encourage the viewer to adopt an unrestricted attitude and question their preconceptions.”
"Time doesn't heal all wounds. There are human beings who bleed all their lives. That is the price of protection among us. Certainly they are admired, perhaps even loved – nevertheless they bleed – each day – each hour… You do not see correctly. Nobody does." --Daria Endresen
“David Ho creates dark digital art with irony. Pieces expressing grief, despair, isolation and sexual disturbance become highly emotional statements in cold, metallic colours on the artist's Macintosh easel. And each is forceful. Within the various software he has chosen for his pallet, Mr Ho is a uniquely effective communicator of the grotesque.”
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“Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, "Pop Surrealism", dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.
He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.”
“Shawn Feeney is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work embodies music through drawing, sculpture and time-based media. The art is informed by his background in forensic art, music performance and concept art.”
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If you look deeper I'm hoping You'll see a childlike point of view throughout my work, that perspective of the world as an unknown and magical, but not always a comforting place. I’m hoping you’ll find my work dark yet charming….
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Tanya Mayers is a self taught artist from Lancashire, England.
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Based in the Georgian city of Bath, England, Tom Bagshaw works as a commercial illustrator under the moniker Mostlywanted and is represented by The Central Illustration Agency. His talents are sought after by clients in fashion, advertising, editorial and publishing, and include Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony, the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, Kraft, GQ, Future Publishing, Scholastic and Random House.
For his personal work he has developed a highly rendered digital painting style through which he explores themes of fantasy, beauty and mysticism. While his work deals with imaginative content, it also aims for a strong level of realism in its presentation. Feminine beauty and portraiture play a large role in his work, but the women he depicts are never frail damsels in distress. More often than not they are strong, intriguing characters, with an air of mystery to them.
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“Miriam Sweeney is an Irish artist currently living and working in Valentia Island, Co Kerry. Miriam is a graduate of the Dun Laoghaire Institute Art Design & Technology - in 1991 she graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art and in 2007 with a BA (Hons) Visual Art Practice.”
“Casey Weldon was born in southern California, where he spent the majority of his life up to his graduation from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. After a brief time running his own studio in Las Vegas, Nevada, He relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he now lives and works as an illustrator and fine artist.
By using to the iconography of today and yesterday's popular culture, his work aims to awaken a feelings of nostalgia within the viewer, though often along with a sense humor, melancholy, and longing for times lost.”
“Wojtek Siudmak, an artist of Polish origin, settled in France in 1966 and is considered one of the principal representatives of fantastic realism (like M.C. Escher, L. Fini and others). He himself claims to be a fantastic hyper realist, conscientiously putting his originality into relief.”
“Born in 1981 in Argentina, in a small town near to Buenos Aires. Her passion about art started at young age but it was not until her late 28, after graduating in Economics, that she decided to dedicate her life to Photography.
She studied Photography, Fashion Photography, Art Direction & Scenery in different places including The Teatro Colon.”
“Sonya FU Man Yi (b.1982 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese visual artist based in Hong Kong. Growing up in the former British Colony where East meets West, Fu is influenced by both Oriental and Western culture.”
“I love to create images that remind me of childhood and how dreamy and fanciful it can be. I spun wild tales as a child about Dinosaurs that still roamed the other side of the earth, man eating plants that grew in my backyard...and being able to fly...but only at night. Every night I made sure to wear cute pj's to bed in case Peter Pan came for me and I would have to wear my pj's to neverland....really. I think it was just my creativity and my storytelling finding it's way into my 'real' life. I try to recreate these kinds of tall tales now in pictures and illustrations.”
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“I love to create images that remind me of childhood and how dreamy and fanciful it can be. I spun wild tales as a child about Dinosaurs that still roamed the other side of the earth, man eating plants that grew in my backyard...and being able to fly...but only at night. Every night I made sure to wear cute pj's to bed in case Peter Pan came for me and I would have to wear my pj's to neverland....really. I think it was just my creativity and my storytelling finding it's way into my 'real' life. I try to recreate these kinds of tall tales now in pictures and illustrations.”
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“I always start new work without any detailed designs.
My hope for a piece is to compleate itself beyond my imagination.
I sometimes say that artists are parallel to scientists.
Scientists have no way of knowing the result of an experiment beforehand.
The same can be said about creating art.”
Yosuke Ueno
“Marion Peck was born on October 3, 1963 in Manila, the Philippines, while her family was on a trip around the world, and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1985. Subsequently she studied in two different MFA programs, Syracuse University in New York and Temple University in Rome. She currently lives in Eagle Rock, California.”
