Interview with Syd Bee
Syd Bee is a Seattle-based painter whose work seems plucked directly from the dream world. Bee uses rich, rosy tones in much of her art while exploring somber themes and emotions, and the marriage of these op...
Interview with Jim McKenzie: A Masterpiece in the Making
If you haven't already, it is probably time to jump onto the Jim McKenzie mobile and start following this new modern day visionary and his work….even if, just to say "I knew him when...". Jim is an American...
Hepburn’s Humanity: House of Roulx and Free Humanity
In collaboration between Massachusetts art collective House of Roulx and Los Angeles based political artist Free Humanity, Hepburn's Humanity is a project that aims to "Take back humanity stolen from our minds by social manipulation and plant seeds of positivi...
Painter Max Kauffman Goes With the Flow
It is instinctual for humans to create. Before any language, we made images; communicated with pictures. As we evolved, many humans lost focus on this inclination to express ideas and feelings that cannot a...
Enchanting Folkloristic Illustrations by Alexandra Dvornikova
With the short, dark days of winter coming up (sorry Australia!) I feel my taste gravitating towards warm, fantastic art more than any other season. Alexandra Dvornikova, a young art graduate living and working...
From My Pet Skeleton to Johnny Hollow – Just who is Vincent Marcone?
Multi-media artist: musician, graphic designer, painter, music video director...and now author and illustrator. If you haven't heard of Vincent Marcone, otherwise known as My Pet Skeleton, your world is about to further expand. With mischievously infectiou...
Jasmine Becket-Griffith @ Whitby Goth Weekend
If you haven't heard the exciting news, Jasmine Becket-Griffith is a special guest at the "Whitby Goth Weekend" (WGW) alternative musical festival in Whitby, England this year! Jasmine will sign autographs ...
Laolu Senbanjo’s Intricate and Sacred Art of the Ori
Nigerian-born Laolu Senbanjo is a man of many talents and travels, although he currently resides in New York. He is qualified and has worked as a human rights lawyer, but once upon a time - as the story goe...
Stanislav Krawczyk: A Howl From the Depths
Art is often the window through which we escape ourselves. It is not limited by our failures and inadequacies, not bound by the fears, which define our borders in life. It is a window constructed from the discordant fragments of the self, so that a truer...
Dreamscapes: Interview with Michelle Jardines
Exceptional art has a way of transporting you to another time, another place, even another world. Fictional or real, the possibilities are endless, and so it is with the work of Michelle Jardines. Textured...
The Animal Connection: An Interview With Lydia Fenwick
I first encountered the work of Southern California-based professional illustrator Lydia Fenwick when my husband showed me a 'zine he'd purchased from her via her website. He'd worked with Lydia at a restaura...
Dark Fairy Tales Painted by Sandra Ovenden
Although still dominated by men the tattoo world is no longer what it once was: a male driven industry. More and more women find their way into the shops, both to be tattooed and as artists. Sandra Ovenden is a talented tattoo artist based in Perth, Austra...
Interview with Tamara Santibañez
In the 17th century, Baruch Spinoza wrote a tractate entitled Ethics wherein one chapter was aptly called, "Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions". He explored the dynamics of power, the passion...
Juan “Crook” Gonzalez Paints the Town Red
The brick walls and concrete in the alley drip a bright, shiny red and there is a strong scent in the air. The scent is spray paint, and the red is an artist's preferred color. Artist "Crook" paints the tow...
My Girl: Interview with Frances Waite
The first time I saw Frances' work was purely by accident. Images had been left on the desktop of a random computer residing within the dusty library at Pratt Institute. Before me, on the screen, were bodies floating in a black sky. Their skin was dotted w...
Border Creatures: The Paintings of Adrian Cox
Flesh, fauna, minerals, and bone. They blend in mutated masses that seem to constantly evolve in their environment. These are the "Border Creatures", the beings that exist in the paintings of artist Adrian ...
The Amorous Complexity of Camilla Taylor
Dark and ominous as the night is black, artist Camilla Taylor’s talents go far and beyond her seemingly gothic-based creations—this multi-talented artist uses every kind of media to create imaginative world...
“Do You Fear (For Your Child?)” by Johnie Thornton
Over the past year, artists have used their voices and their skills to engage with audiences regarding the ego and antics of Republican nominee, Mr. Donald Trump... such as this piece by Sarah Levy as well as one by Illma Gore.
The United States is goin...
Enchanting Drawings by Rebecca Yanovskaya
Life’s not easy for a fantasy fan nowadays. Where a few decades ago there wasn’t a lot of great material around you now have a choice in thousands of books, films and series being released each year. With t...
Art Pop Gets Redefined with Anomie Belle’s ‘Flux’
"You know you'll never have to look back now," sings Anomie Belle on the hopeful opening of her latest release 'Flux'. Across multiple EPs and now three full-lengths, the versatile multi-instrumentalist has...