A REINVENTION OF THE ORIGINAL SCENE Joe Webb: “I started making these simple hand-made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage…using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or […]
VICTORIAN COLLAGES Hidden Velvet was born in Brussels, Belgium and spent her childhood surrounded by books, in her little bubble of dreams, creating stories and characters. She’s a self-taught collage artist, influenced by old movies, Universal Monsters, German expressionism, Edgar Allan Poe, the Victorian Era, Gothic architecture, antique photographs, poetry and paintings. [Source: the Hidden […]
TRANSFORMING REALITY Spanish-based photographer, graphic/web designer and editor, Rocio Montoya creates surreal collages that speak about the human body in close relation to nature. The female figure and a loss of identity are here conceptual basis. The resulting works are a mixture of graphic elements collected from magazines and vintage botanical illustrations with photographic portraits […]
HAUNTED AND ETHEREAL APPEARANCES A multimedia artist whose works personify a mysterious, somewhat haunted and ethereal appearance, Siv Storøy designs aesthetically striking images using a color palette of predominately black and white that transfix a compelling and contemporary gaze. Born in Norway, her creative background that comprises of illustration, painting and graphic design was carefully […]
THE ABSTRACTIONS OF JOE GANECH Joe Ganech, born in Northern Spain and living in Brussels, uses traditional methods and recreates them with his very own style of contemporary digital art in both portraits and landscapes. Abstraction is what he brings to the surface. “I like to think have my creations get people asking themselves new questions […]
AN HOMAGE TO A “GOLDEN AGE ” The complex imagery of Richard Burlet’s figurative paintings pays homage to a tradition in art that reigned supreme in Vienna in the late 1800s. The art, architecture and design of Vienna’s “Golden Age”, and the highly praised works of Gustav Klimt, are the greatest influences to Burlet’s artwork. […]
