Nick Sheehy: Spinner of Wilds
A weird, wonderful world. Through his pop-surrealist art, Nick Sheehy transports us into a realm that feels fantastical in its beauty, as well as in its danger. Frogs take part in dancing rituals. Octopuses bir...
Interview: The Manic, Fetishistic and Dark Surrealism Of Ulorin Vex
You may know Ulorin Vex from her alternative model years, and you certainly may have encountered her illustrations either under the names of Malady Charlotina, Ulorin Vex or her real name, Christiane Shillito. ...
The Psychedelic Eroticism of PHAZED
Hypnotic neon colors, psychedelic landscapes, nudity, and a llama-corn, Canadian-born artist PHAZED has it all. Jean Francois Painchaud, also known as INSTAPHAZED on Instagram, invites his audience to join him on a mind-altering voyage. Using a palette of hues...
Crystal Morey TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Every month Beautiful Bizarre Magazine chooses one of our favourite artists to TAKE OVER social media for the day. For April, we chose Crystal Morey to share with us the artists who have inspired her through he...
Flying High: Unveiling the Winners of High Art 2019 by the Natural Cannabis Company
2019 has been a year to remember for the Natural Cannabis Company. Having received more entries than ever before from over 100 countries, this year’s High Art competition has blown away the Natural Cannabis Com...
Teagan White: A Modern Naturalist
Teagan White is an Oregon based artist, working primarily in gouache and watercolor. Flora and fauna take the main stage of her artwork. She states that her “work is influenced by years of living in the bleak Midwest and Great Lakes region, burying roadkill, ...
Rebecca Hastings: A Synthetic Valley of Dreams
Rebecca Hastings' new series of paintings 'The Eternal Youths' (2018) sets you adrift across a placid calm of bright blue that hazes into an unknown distance. Your slumbering eyes affix upon a synthetic child, ...
Fight Like A Girl: The Digital Art Of Justin Gedak
If you read a lot about artists these days, you will notice a recurring theme: overcoming hardship and finding power in your own wounds. Of course, it is a timeless, universal theme, but nowadays, human beings ...
Eleven Masters: Art of the IMC
June approaches and with it comes the IMC.
To mark the occasion, we are profiling eleven of the greatest living practitioners of a distinctive tradition of art that lives at the meeting point of the gallery world and illustration. These artists all gathered t...
The Energising Properties of Open Dialogue: An Interview with Martine Johanna
Martine Johanna is a Dutch artist whose work touches on themes of loss, grief, and inadequacy; the processing of both inner and outer worlds and how we deal with things. Her work is so much deeper than pretty p...
Top 100 Embroidery Artists on Instagram
For more than 5 years now, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has been keeping an attentive eye out on the rising contemporary artistic movement that is embroidery art. We have had the pleasure of working with many ...
The International Biennial Portrait Competition For America
The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art is proudly presenting The International Biennial Portrait Competition 2019. They are excited to offer this new exhibit every two years to bring the best portrait painters and sculptors from around the world to the heart of...
Moon: The Art of Intricacy
It's not often that an artist manages to wear different career hats, successfully, while still creating extraordinary pieces that engage and leave viewers in awe. One of the few who get this fine balance right ...
Interview With Laura Grace: Power of Color
Human eyes are able to see about 360 different colors. The vitality of heightened saturation in art has captured viewers throughout art history. Viewing art that has bright colors is known to affect your mental...
Sylwia Makris: Photographs of Forbidden Tarot
The Polish-born artist Sylwia Makris has spent more than a decade in sculpture. Since moving to photography, she has produced many incredible works of art including the gorgeously dark exhibit titled Tarot. Here, she portrays a variation of the Rider-Waite tar...
Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age
In our digital age, we are surrounded with more and more faces than ever. Every social media you open will instantly project selfies and pictures of people, friends or strangers in front of your eyes. But, unfo...
Anthony Lister: The Enigmatic Artist
Anthony Lister is a globally recognized Australian artist that enjoys pushing boundaries. That quality within him I find both fascinating and frightening at the same time. I say this as I enjoy his offbeat pers...
Seb McKinnon Takes Over Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Every month Beautiful Bizarre Magazine chooses one of our favourite artists to TAKE OVER social media for the day. In 2019, we have decided to extend this event to all types of artists to add culture and couture to our artistic conversation. For March, we chos...
Primal Impulses & Curious Beauty: is 2019 the Year of the Dark Art Movement?
To both repulse and enchant, art can bind you within a paradoxical state of emotion. For some this uneasiness is preferably avoided, yet there are many instances over the centuries which example humanity's lust...
Feminine Ethos: An Interview with Natalia Berglund
Indeed, there is no shortage of creativity and inspiration when looking upon the mixed media portraiture of Natalia Berglund. There is intensity and empowerment, a pensive sight even while her subject’s vision ...